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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In this case they just need to publish the code as a torrent. You wouldn't setup a crawler if there was all the data in a torrent swarm.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 28 minutes ago

I've heard stuff like bittorent doesn't work well when the data is often updated or changed

I might be totally wrong, I've only ever used it once when downloading Wikipedia