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If the data changes, how would a torrent client pick it up and download changes?


Let the client curl latest.torrent from some central service and then download the big file through bittorrent.


A lot of torrent client support various API to automatically collect torrent file. The most common is to simply use RSS.


There's a BEP for updatable torrents.


Pretty sure people used or even still use RSS for this.




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