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Not sure if it’s still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.

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Blizzard used to do that as well with world of Warcraft updates IIRC ( during vanilla )

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They did, and we’re really up front about it being an opt-in thing, if I remember correctly. Might have started that easy with Microsoft, too. But they can’t resist enshitifying.

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When I joined in MoP it was still peer-to-peer by default

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So does War Thunder. Makes sense from a CDN perspective.

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It still does it. The only thing is that the awareness of this feature was spread in a way to make it sound like it was just stealing your internet for nothing (which looking at it one way, it was) so most people just turned it off.

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Honestly that can be a good thing, especially if you have more than one windows PC in your household, it’s only downloading them once then sharing the updates about over the LAN

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Ya in the business world that’s what WSUS is/was for

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