Hacker News with Generative AI: BitTorrent

Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent? (ycombinator.com)
I've been wondering if anyone knows why there is no P2P protocol for mass live stream content in decent quality? specifically what are the technical limitations or is it mostly that people don't want to get destroyed by media company lawyers? I've searched around for a while and i cant find anything like that that can handle thousands of people streaming. The closest is probably Webrtc and that looks like it can only handle 500~ peers.

P2P Streaming, BitTorrent, Live Streaming, WebRTC, Technology

235 points by memet_rush 11 days ago | 223 comments

Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go (2020) (jse.li)
tl;dr: What is the complete path between visiting thepiratebay and sublimating an mp3 file from thin air? In this post, we’ll implement enough of the BitTorrent protocol to download Debian. Look at the Source code or skip to the last bit.

Programming, BitTorrent, Go

184 points by stevenmh 61 days ago | 89 comments

'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' (torrentfreak.com)
Freshly unsealed court documents reveal that Meta downloaded significant amounts of data from shadow libraries through Anna's Archive. The company's use of BitTorrent was already known, but internal email communication reveals sources and terabytes of downloaded data, as well as a struggle with limited availability and slow download speeds due to a lack of seeders.

Meta, BitTorrent, Data Privacy, Shadow Libraries, Court Documents

19 points by HieronymusBosch 79 days ago | 0 comments

Transmission a Fast, Easy and Free BitTorrent Client for macOS, Windows, Linux (transmissionbt.com)
It's fast, it's extremely lightweight, and — even though it's available for a variety of platforms — it behaves just as you'd expect a Mac program to.

BitTorrent, Software, macOS, Windows, Linux

12 points by Bluestein 104 days ago | 0 comments

PrivTracker – Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone (privtracker.com)
PrivTracker allows to share torrent files just with your friends, nobody else.

Privacy, BitTorrent, Sharing, Community

190 points by prvt 105 days ago | 37 comments

QBittorrent: Open-Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client with No Ads (github.com/qbittorrent)
qBittorrent is a bittorrent client programmed in C++ / Qt that uses libtorrent (sometimes called libtorrent-rasterbar) by Arvid Norberg.

Open Source, BitTorrent, Software, C++

73 points by Omega_Shift 205 days ago | 30 comments

Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with integrated media player (github.com/popcorn-official)