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		cakealert 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's ... A sufficiently seeded torrent is a high latency static CDN. You just need a client that can make use of it. I'm not sure if anyone will be interested in making one however, you can already get a patched Spotify APK from the usual mobile piracy spaces that's good enough.

Raed667 6 days ago | [–]

Wasn't popcorn-time basically video streaming backed by torrent ? Why can't it be the same for audio ?

The metadata is 200 GB which can be easily indexed and could be made searchable, then you download only what you need

grandpoobah 6 days ago | [–]

Now that's a cool idea.

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