Why was the bittorrent protocol so successful but other P2P protocols are virtually non existent?
Why was the bittorrent protocol so successful but other P2P protocols are virtually non existent?
David Gutierrez
Aaron Gutierrez
nakadashi
Henry Anderson
nakadashi
Brandon Nelson
I look like that
Nathan Fisher
sex sex sex
Tyler Baker
Nakadashi
Tyler Jones
have you heard of emule and thunder?
it is popular when I was in China
Matthew Rivera
>when I was in China
I didn't ask you at all.
John Turner
bittorrent is not 95% malware
Easton Williams
Plenty of other P2P systems have been successful in the past and many are still in use, but due to the nature of P2P people will gravitate towards the system that has the most content and is easiest to use, and currently that spot is held by torrents.
Kayden Taylor
primarily the same reason 90% of non-business communication happens over discord instead of forums and IRC now - simplicity
Benjamin Edwards
Yes it is
Robert Myers
Thats because its 96% malware
Chase Gutierrez
Because it's the only actually useful p2p protocol and not theoretically useful if it was ever used by more than three people. bittorrent offers literal petabytes of all shit you could ever want, leaks, porn, games, movies, music, books, etc. the others offer nothing in practice.
Thomas Campbell
Ejaculation.
Nathan Nelson
Why yes, I still use uTorrent 2.2.1.
No, I won't update it to the bloated adware piece of shit versions
No, I'm not using any other clients
Colton Torres
> bittorrent offers literal petabytes of all shit you could ever want
That's because it got popular in the first place, right? Other protocols could offer the same things if they were as popular.
Joshua Morgan
me too hehe~
Matthew Reyes
>what is share
>what is winny
Michael Sullivan
because it's better than its predecessors/competitors (such as XDCC, directconnect, emule, gnutella, etc), and nobody has made something that is enough of an upgrade to warrant using it for most people (good parts of IPFS already included in bittorrent v2, private versions of bittorrent like i2psnark is something most people don't actually need, people aren't willing to trade speed for privacy, unfortunately)
James Morris