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[–] droolio@feddit.uk 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The next best alternative would be BiglyBT's Swarm Merging feature (which works similarly, and amazingly well on v1 torrents considering it only stores a precise file size instead of a hash in Vuze/Bigly's own DHT). I've been able to 'complete' numerous separate torrents where availability was <1.

BiglyBT already supports v2 but dunno if Swarm Merging works with such torrents yet.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Interesting. Not sure if qBittorrent supports that, I really hate switching clients :D Swarm merging for V2 should be implicit because each file has a unique hash code. So you can't not merge.

Another thing torrent clients could do: Every torrent that is downloaded and "rechecked" automatically generates and "upgrades" a V1 torrent into a V1/V2 hybrid torrent for sharing. And when you add a normal magnet link you could get the hybrid v1/v2 torrent from others via DHT. So theoretically only one person needs to generate this upgraded torrent and it's not up to the uploader / tracker.