The website also promotes their media player. It is surprisingly competent, supporting almost all video formats and offering "online matching" for subtitles. However, like the downloader, it is ad-supported and pushes premium content.
Here’s the genius twist: Xunlei repurposed its P2P DNA. OneCloud is a small router that shares your idle home bandwidth with Xunlei’s network. In exchange for sharing your connection, you earn "Link Tokens" (a cryptocurrency-like credit). xunlei.com
At its core, Xunlei wasn't just a download manager; it was a technological marvel and a copyright holder's nightmare. Using a proprietary protocol called P2SP (Peer-to-Server-Peer), it did what BitTorrent did but better. It would simultaneously pull pieces of a file from a central server and from other users who had already downloaded parts of it. The website also promotes their media player
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