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sieabah | 3 years ago

I've used torrents to download software so that the provider didn't need to pay bandwidth to share their software.

There are completely legal and reasonable reasons torrenting exists. They're excellent at making huge downloads possible with the more efficient bandwidth. Instead of that, we have an ecosystem of "installers" that exist purely to download massive files to install.

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kube-system|3 years ago

There are many things with technically legal purposes that people often choose not to associate with because they find the cons outweigh the pros. This is that.

sieabah|3 years ago

I wish torrenting for general downloads was more popular. I had unstable internet that would make downloading anything over 100MB impossible.

Slap a torrent together of the same payload and it'd be guaranteed not to stall/error because of the network.

tonypags|3 years ago

Cons of cryptocurrency outweigh the Pros. Yet these apps are on the app store.