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by akdor1154 1467 days ago
Yeah it makes me a bit sad.. torrents are technically really cool, and the casual anarchist in me likes how they remove the need for expensive infra/bandwidth to serve huge data.

Yet the overwhelming use by far is just to pirate vids.
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heartbeats 1467 days ago
People will use a technology for what it's best at. It's no different from how people use(d) Bitcoin mainly to buy drugs. BitTorrent is maybe slightly superior for legal file-sharing, but strongly superior for illegal one, and so it only dominates in the latter.

I don't think it's anything to be sad about; people use it because it works. It would be much sadder if it weren't used at all.

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lambdadmitry 1467 days ago
Shouldn't the casual anarchist in you rejoice at people hitting back on predatory, monopolistic, customer-hostile business practices of Big Movie though?
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