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		SimeVidas on April 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WebTorrent Desktop – Open source streaming torrent... I thought WebTorrent already is BitTorrent-compatible, no?

shawabawa3 on April 7, 2016 [–]

No, WebRTC cannot make normal TCP connections so it can't be used to connect to a classic client. In theory all bittorrent software could implement WebRTC connections though

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