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The protocol should be able to find same files in other torrents - you could be downloading a bunch of files (like a season of TV), but are able to find and download one file from another torrent that is better seeded (like one single episode torrent). But I don't think any of the clients implement that yet.

That's great!

I suppose they removed bittorrent's weirdness of allowing chunks to overlap multiple files. That was the original sin that caused all this

There are lots of changes that are nice-to-have efficiency improvements.

But there are no new killer features. I would guess that the extra user headaches from having outdated software not work with new torrents will exceed the benefits of slightly faster downloads and slightly better availability.

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