WebTorrent Desktop - open source streaming torrent client

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Feross Aboukhadijeh

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Apr 6, 2016, 8:28:23 PM4/6/16
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Hey folks!

Just wanted to share that the WebTorrent Project just shipped WebTorrent Desktop (BETA) today!


WebTorrent Desktop bridges the WebTorrent and BitTorrent networks. If enough people end up running it, BitTorrent in the browser will really happen. Projects like the Internet Archive can make huge files available for immediate streaming on their website, without paying for bandwidth.

Let me know what you guys think.

Feross

Paul Frazee

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Apr 6, 2016, 8:34:56 PM4/6/16
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Congrats again on the release, Feross, works great.

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Michiel de Jong

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Apr 6, 2016, 10:53:14 PM4/6/16
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Great!

Should I also download and seed some torrents if I want to help bootstrap the eco-system, or will it already help the network if I just leave the application open and running on my laptop?

Cheers,
Michiel.


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Feross Aboukhadijeh

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Apr 6, 2016, 11:19:02 PM4/6/16
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Michiel,

WebTorrent Desktop behaves similar to other torrent clients. You need to manually add torrents to the client.

We don't want to make the client automatically download popular content, or seed it, or anything like that. The user should decide what to share since the content could be unencrypted and that's potentially dangerous.

If you're looking for some good torrents you can seed, I recommend the "Featured Torrents" at the bottom of this page: https://webtorrent.io/desktop

Let me know if you have other questions. Cheers!

Feross

Michiel de Jong

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Apr 7, 2016, 12:27:47 AM4/7/16
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Cool, starting to seed the three featured torrents now! :)

Pierre Ozoux

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Apr 7, 2016, 7:06:10 AM4/7/16
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Amazing! Thanks a lot :)

(Started to download/seed the Introduction to computer programming)

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