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[Suggestion] Speedup archive.org sources with torrent?
What do you think of speeding up archive.org files with torrent? aria2 supports BitTorrent protocol.
They have excellent amount of seeds, along with web seeds from archive.org mirrors.
Maybe this can be opt-in by a variable. Using this will make archive.org sources the fastest.
if you add BitTorrent support be sure to add the iso URL as a web seed to keep availability at 100%.
archive.org usually has webseeds.
But I don't think webseeds are even required for this application, since the files are popular, and I have seen more than 500 active seeds. Even behind a NAT, my internet connection gets saturated pretty quickly. This is a huge contrast to archive.org, which doesn't really seems to have well distributed mirrors. The mirrors seem to be in North America only.
My only problem with adding this feature is that people may associate torrents with pirated Windows copies (even though that might be unjustified) and I do not want anyone to think that this is some shady project.
I think anyone tech-savvy enough to set up and use Docker can understand that BitTorrent is just an efficient file sharing. Maybe you can add a disclaimer like "Is this project legal?".
For people who don't want P2P traffic on their network or any other reason, they can just not opt in. As I suggested earlier, this is better if it is an opt-in option. So only people who are bothered by the low speeds and are fine with torrent can choose this.
I use an external script to download the ISO's: https://github.com/ElliotKillick/Mido
So this feature needs to be implemented in that other project, and then this project can benefit from that too.