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He forgot to mention a very important aspect of bittorrent: the uTP (micro-TP) protocol.

uTP is a very nice bittorrent over UDP protocol implementing LEDBAT congestion control algorithm [1].

Everything there looks very pro HTTP like... But hey, curl doesn't support bittorrent afaik. So why should haxx.se care ;-)

Interesting link in that Wikipedia article [1] to Apple's LEDBAT implementation used for downloading updates.