But don’t lose the list. Losing the list would be bad. We’ll need to keep the list in a safe place.
Comment on Creating a torrent that includes all of humanity's knowledge/art/entertainment?
jeffw@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So like… a meta-torrent that is a torrent of all the other torrents?
Unsustainable@lemmy.today 6 months ago
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
With the way that the BitTorrent v2 protocol works, each file of the original, underlying torrents wouldn’t have to be re-seeded, but rather would reuse each file’s individual hash and thus incorporate those files into the meta torrent without necessarily having to download or even upload any part of the meta torrent.
That said, the .bittorrent file would be massive and might run up against certain limits in the current protocol.