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How come we can't just create a file from a torrent hash

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How come we can't just create a file from a torrent hash instead of downloading it? We already know what the expected values are going to be. You would think this would be great for archiving - just make a hash of your hard drive contents and it's better than any compression technique ever.
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>>60046070
Sounds like a good idea. I'm not OP BTW.
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>>60046070
because, the human eye can't see more than 1 md5 cycle per year
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>>60046070
How is it better than compression when the file size of the hash is bigger than the data itself?
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>>60046336
Uh sweetie you mustn't have torrented anything before. The hash file is far smaller than the actual file.
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>>60046336
You clearly know nothing about computers.
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>>60046376
>>60046397
>2 minutes delay
Kill yourself samefag

Youre even worse than the "EGGSECUTIVE LOONIX" poster
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>>60046070
Yes something like this would be awesome and is totally within the realm of possibility.

The problem with using bittorrent for this is that you need to have a tracker.

bittorrent sync (which has since been renamed) is great for this but only on machines you control

if you want to have a globally accessible, decentralized, fully encrypted and secure universal filesystem share look into ipfs: https://ipfs.io

don't get your hopes up though it's still got a LONG ways to go and might end up being just a pump+dump sv startup meme

as long as capitalism exists file sharing will not be easy
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>>60046070
Because a hash has a many files to one hash relation. Now, What would be nice to have is enough redundancy in the downloaded torrent such that we could repair partially downloaded files.
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