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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

>I have no issue with that but there is no way for KiCad to control what is uploaded to a torrent so I really don't want the project to be responsible for it

The torrent could be autogenerated by the download server when the
files are transferred over, the download server would act as the
initial seed server. The torrent once created could be shared on the
website and then thats it. The contents of the torrent cannot change
without it being a completely different hash and thus invalid for the
torrent.

>Does our website not have enough bandwidth for downloading KiCad packages?

Actually simultaneous downloads from multiple users do seem to slow it
down quite a tad bit. It's not like the files are hosted on a CDN like
other projects may have or even github.

The theory with torrents is the download server would consume the
same bandwidth during initial seed but then others could then "donate"
their bandwidth afterwards to continue sharing (the initial seed is
still there too).


Not advocating for this but just throwing my two cents in