You can be bullish on some tech but still not believe it will have mass adoption or that it requires such a thing to succeed.
Bittorrent doesn't have mass adoption but I'm more than happy with the status quo.
I am more of an optimist than what you take me for 😉
Same. I grumble a lot, but it's only because I care.
BitTorrent was absolutely successful. It's killed physical media.
Now shit goes to DRM streaming. That wasn't Netflix's fault. That was BitTorrent.
I wouldn't count that as a success. A success would be if it was the standard today to distribute large media instead of large CDNs and server farms.
I mean, game downloads use it. Like steam and world of Warcraft.
Definitely the prefered way of distributing Linux ISOs.
But the effect it had on media isn't even done yet.
I can't find on DVD or blue ray some shows I want to watch. Because they skip those formats. I think BitTorrent had something to do with that.
Is that a success? Idk, but it certainly changed the world
