You could have a mixed mode pretty easily. Heck, it would even be pretty efficient.

For your own company, you'd host a swarm that is firewalled in. Then when someone says "I want image xyz" the first thing you do is look for seeders in the swarm for that file. If non exists, then you initiate an http download from docker to get the image.

Now you've got fast distribution with low external network traffic.

Not sure how this would play with Cloud provider pricing, though. I don't believe AWS would be too happy seeing their services turned into BT swarms :)

> How would bittorrent work in companies? Only HTTP traffic is allowed and often only when going through the company proxy.

1. Only some companies work like that.

2. I'd expect it to work like a webtorrent; try to download by p2p, but if that fails then fall back to HTTP.

- Its an alternative download solution

- There is no rate limiting for paid accounts or companies from what I see in the article.

The company proxy would have to be modified to allow torrent traffic, I guess?