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by Shank 1467 days ago
Archive.org supports torrents for downloading huge files (i.e., >50gb archives of content) and the like.

You can probably debate endlessly piracy, ethics, "backups of media that have been purchased but have rotted away due to disc rot", etc. But fundamentally torrents are just a mechanism for delivery of large files or large sets of files, and they work extremely well for things in the tens-of-gigabytes range.