• fernlike3923@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      AFAIK Miru keeps the streamed torrent downloaded and seeds it in the background.

      Edit: My bad, it seems to be a feature coming to version 6 of Miru, but currently it’s not available.

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        2 months ago

        It depends on how you’re streaming it, but if you use some service that streams a torrent directly and then throws it away afterwards you took the torrent data without contributing anything back to the swarm

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          Yeah, but as you said, it is highly dependent on the implementation. Theoretically it is possible that the user is also seeding the previously downloaded/streamed chunk (via WebRTC for example if using a browser). That reminds me of a madlad that stores data on a ping packet (see suckerpinch channel on youtube, specifically his video titled “Harder Drive”)

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          2 months ago

          Can one not seed while stream? Like keeping cache after you have seen that part and seed that part?

          (I have little knowledge on new torrent stuff since I found a net that can be used)

          • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            2 months ago

            Dunno. If the client does it.
            I know there are ways thr request a specific section of a torrent to essentially stream it and once you are done keep it in seed.