When my torrent downloads shows <i>"63 years remaining"</i> I'm like "great, I'll leave it downloading and come back when I'm 84." Ten minutes later: <i>" seeding"</i>,(reply>), DC, damn! It's been like a bajillion years! And that crypto thought, clever. Well, more like pap, maybe, peer and peer. As in one ledger open for all.,(reply>), @Jaakko Pöntinen <br>Well, even Direct Connect is still alive.<br>p2p is currently the only way to avoid corporations (excluding ISPs).<br>There are many other p2p protocols outside of file transfer area. The most well known is Bitcoin.,(reply>), @Filip Estelle You can prioritise sequential data in some torrent clients so that the remaining 1% will at least be all the way at the end.,(reply>), Thanks all, kind of fascinating that the tech has been so long-lived... Things tend to be replaced by new designs. I guess p2p really is such a robust model, then! :),(reply>), @Jaakko Pöntinen peer-to-peer is still the future.