The original post: /r/torrents by /u/YoursTrulyKindly on 2024-10-01 01:09:02.

I just want to share this idea:

Theoretically libtorrent could optionally create a V2 hybrid torrent when you recheck a torrent. This would be automatic and in the background.

Then there could be a bittorrent enhancement protocol that specifies that a torrent application could, when searching for a v1 torrent, optionally receive the corresponding hybrid torrent.

Over time this should result in more swarm merging and more resilient torrents and less incomplete old torrents.

A torrent application could also share a local library of individual data files (= hash and create a new V2 torrent) and this would add more sources for older but "upgraded" torrents. For example all ebook files in a calibre library.

This would be a bit of a roundabout way to increase actual use of V2 and create an upgrade path. Not sure if this makes much sense!