Comment 54 for bug 339772

(In reply to comment #53)
> It would break the web to use torrents in html itself.
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> Torrents take a while to find other hosts to download from. They are not
> reliable (require many people downloading at the sime time to be reliable).
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> They aren't a way to host the web.
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> They aren't in the specs.
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> I think that's enough conversation on the topic. If anything, such talk should
> be directed to the w3c, not Mozilla.
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>
> **Please refrain from more comments on modifying specifications. This bug is
> for someone who wants to implement the protocol in firefox.**

Exactly. Let's just turn it into HTTP/FTP replacement its just begging to be
already.

The core reason this is so good and so "just begging to happen" is that big
sites can get together to distribute bandwidth between them. Users uploading
back to the network would just be icing on the cake.