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cloudking
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Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
Blizzard uses BitTorrent to distribute their games and patches
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader
plorkyeran
on May 24, 2021
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"was" is an important word in the first sentence there. They finished moving away from BitTorrent in 2013, and they'd phased out actual p2p transfers in favor of just using the BT client to download from a web seed a while before that.
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