Comment 6 for bug 339772

(In reply to comment #2)

> > * What about <img src="blah.jpg.torrent"> ?
> >
> > The BitTorrent protocol isn't suited for that sort of thing. For a start, it's
> > slow to get moving, and has a co-ordination overhead.
>
> Nice way to evade the question. How about answering it? What exactly should
> the tag above do?
>
> A much more interesting question is whether there should be a difference between
> just clicking on the torrent link and doing "save link as" on the torrent link.

I'm not sure he was dodging the question; essentially he is asking whether one
could put an image say on a bittorrent net, and then link to it via <img src=""
/> tag. Clearly, doing this would save bandwidth. However, this is unfeasable
due to the time needed to contact a tracker, and then initialise individual
connections with peers. For a webpage to render in a reasonable time doing this
would be impossible.