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BitTorrent dethroned as the main source of internet's upstream traffic (www.techspot.com)

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While internet traffic continues to grow at an accelerated pace, BitTorrent has seemingly ceased to contribute a substantial portion of upstream data sources. Canadian network intelligence company Sandvine recently released its latest report on "internet phenomena," highlighting significant changes in the network traffic market.Read Entire Article

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[–] rdyoung 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Resilio sync is based on the same protocol iirc. Most definitely it's being used by numerous companies. Microsoft implemented something similar years ago for update distribution to lessen the load on their servers and speed up downloads.