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BitTorrent the company has been fairly far detached from the protocol and software introduced in 2001. The original client discontinued, µTorrent is proprietary, and launching various services like BitTorrent Sync and Play that really don't have anything to do with the protocol at all... I'm honestly surprised that the company still survives (though this may be why it's being acquired).

Long story short, no, it won't affect you using the protocol and Transmission or what-have-you to download Fedora ISOs.

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BitTorrent Sync did do some smart things with the protocol, which is always why internal politics wound up causing it to spin out of BitTorrent the Company, which has continually tried to be a "media" company more than a tech company (which should explain BitTorrent Play, and kind of but not really explains why BitTorrent the company still exists at all in the same way that RealNetworks or WildTangent still exist in that "media" companies can be cockroaches).

So BitTorrent Sync is now Resilio Sync, and word has it most of the smart engineers jumped to that ship when it spun out.

Resilio Sync is an awesome product. Its amazing to be able to sync my pics from my Phone to my PC wireless over the Internet and to be able to sync Music and Movies from my PC to my phone over a Lan etc.

I've been using Syncthing for the same purpose.

Syncthing, Rsync, both open source and cross platform. Nextcloud also supports WebDAV IIRC.

For sending a file over LAN without using a protocol such as SSH, magic-wormhole works well.

SSH works fine for sending/receiving data, but like FTP it chokes with high amount of small files. So its best, as usual, to use tarballs or zips.

I especially appreciate the concept of Encrypted Shares where I can have devices participate in the sync, but not be able to read its contents. I don't know of another peer-to-peer sync tool with quite that same option. (There are several cloud storage options like Keybase that are close, but not quite the same as me spinning up a VM or always-on closet PC that I control top-to-bottom.)

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