No, I just meant if he tried to get a large file(Linux ISO) with BitTorrent. which should be reliable in theory.
Bittorent has webseeds support, which can use apples direct CDN urls to create a torrent file to download.
archive.org still uses this technique and AWS S3 used to do this when they had torrent support.
There a website that do just that, it creates a torrent file from any direct weburl.
I didn't know that was possible! Thanks so much, I've got a torrent client but with so few things using bittorrent these days, it feels like innovation went backwards and it's now one-shot http downloads or bust. This will be helpful :)
I can't believe I had never heard about webseeds [1] before!
Do I understand correctly that one can make a torrent from any HTTP-available file (without even owning the file) and start downloading and sharing with BitTorrent? It's incredible!
Bittorent has webseeds support, which can use apples direct CDN urls to create a torrent file to download. archive.org still uses this technique and AWS S3 used to do this when they had torrent support.
There a website that do just that, it creates a torrent file from any direct weburl.
https://www.urlhash.com/