I know we can’t do this with any copyrighted materials. But a lot of books, music, art, knowledge is in the creative commons. Is it possible to create one massive torrent that includes all that can be legally included and then have people only download what they actually want to enjoy?

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
    17·
    11 months ago

    So like… a meta-torrent that is a torrent of all the other torrents?

    Edit: or we could just create a website that had a list of all the torrents. And give it a clever name that reminds us of the fact that we’re pirating things. Oh… wait

    • litchralee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      11 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.

    • Unsustainable
      2·
      11 months ago

      But don’t lose the list. Losing the list would be bad. We’ll need to keep the list in a safe place.