[steeve]

Yeah but then you end up changing the info hash, and thus your magnet is changed.

What I'm trying to do is to basically embed the magnet link in my program and sort of having it self check itself for updates. It that makes sense :)

[fredsted]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the magnet link a hash of the files? Then it would not be possible to change the files without changing the link.

[steeve]

it is exactly that, unfortunately...

[dvanduzer]

Whether it's helpful for any current efforts using BT infrastructure, there's been a lot of work on this problem since Van Jacobsen sketched the outlines a few years ago:

http://named-data.net/