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Also, the original Bittorrent client looked like an Internet Explorer file download dialog. The download experience was nearly identical: you clicked on a download link, and a download dialog with a progress bar opened up. Behind the scenes, the torrent file MIME type was registered to the Bittorrent client, so it was downloading the torrent file and launching the Bittorrent client, while a normal download showed the download dialog directly, but the user didn't have to be aware of these details.

So yes, it's the way it was originally meant to be used.