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And BitTorrent is already used to distribute games! Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute WoW, for example.

Small correction, though - BitTorrent wasn’t released until 2001.

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Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute WoW

they haven’t been using it for many years now

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Hmm, I had trouble finding official confirmation of that but did find a HN comment by scrollaway on this post who said they use “a proprietary http-based protocol called ngdp.” They also shared a document on the protocol and a commenter replied with a link to a deeper discussion of other ways to solve similar game patching distribution problems (amusingly, scrollaway also participated in that discussion).

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