alt Hacker NewsConvenience won.
How many people are actually going to download a torrent client, navigate through some massive torrent file collection to check the files of the artists they want to download so they can upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable like it's 2004 again, just so they can avoid paying Spotify?
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A sufficiently seeded torrent is a high latency static CDN.
You just need a client that can make use of it.
I'm not sure if anyone will be interested in making one however, you can already get a patched Spotify APK from the usual mobile piracy spaces that's good enough.
That's unnecessarily worst case. No one is seriously using a usb cable to upload mp3s. There are plenty of paid and free spotify clones anyone can throw up.
And specifically, not everybody owns a NAS with 300 TB capacity. At 30TB drive for almost 1000€, we are talking about 10-15000€.
As mentioned in other stories, this is really welcomed by other big corps or LLM related companies
Great, so the copyright conglomerates have nothing to complain about if it's useless then.
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> upload mp3s to their phone over a USB cable
The more interesting part is how this is your mental model of actually "physically" owning music.
The amount of messaging that will be needed to explain how home servers are convenient is pretty crazy.