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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 re
by sieabah 4y 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.
- kube-system 4y agoThere 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 4y agoI 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.
- kube-system 4y agoI agree, I wish they were more common, but you don't need torrents to solve any issues with resuming downloads. HTTP supports sufficient functionality to accomplish this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requests https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...
- mixmastamyk 4y agowhile; wget -c http://...; end (From memory, may need tweaking.)
- tonypags 4y agoCons of cryptocurrency outweigh the Pros. Yet these apps are on the app store.
- kube-system 4y agoMaybe so. Judgement is subjective.
- pwinnski 4y agoAnd I'd be happy if they weren't, but people would be more upset over that than torrent clients.
- HereIGoAgain 4y agoHow so?