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The difference is the granularity. A torrent is like a tar file, it's a big blob of static data that can't be updated. IPFS in contrast works more like a file system, you have a top level directory that points to the content within it. If you want to change something, you just update the top level directory, while all the content within it can stay the same. Each file on IPFS has it's own checksum and can be addressed individually.

IPFS doesn't help much with censorship, as it has all the same issues as torrent in that area. It doesn't help much with privacy either, as it's all rather public. It's really for legitimate uses, not outside-the-law kind of stuff.

The benefit of IPFS is that its granularity makes it much more useful for smaller tasks. For example you can host Git repositories or source trees on there. And since IPFS on Linux can be mounted as a file system, you can just access them with a simple `cd` command, no manual download or extraction needed.