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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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Legal game updates as torrents? Is that a thing?
I know WoW used bittorrent for game updates, it was built in and was the "standard" download mechanism.
https://worldofwarcraft.fandom.com/et/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader
I'm sure it's far from the only game that did.
Spotify got its start by distributing its music files peer-to-peer as well.
Embrace Extend Extinguish. Maybe they shouldn't have in the end
Interesting! Thanks