While internet traffic continues to grow at an accelerated pace, BitTorrent has seemingly ceased to contribute a substantial portion of upstream data sources. Canadian network intelligence company Sandvine recently released its latest report on “internet phenomena,” highlighting significant changes in the network traffic market.Read Entire Article
It will make its comeback sooner or later. There is just no better tech for distributing large files in a decentralized way. Im sure lots of commercial companies are using bittorrent or something compareable under the hood to distribute their files across their servers.
Resilio sync is based on the same protocol iirc. Most definitely it’s being used by numerous companies. Microsoft implemented something similar years ago for update distribution to lessen the load on their servers and speed up downloads.