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by kube-system 1375 days ago
There 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.
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I 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.

I 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_requ...

    while; wget -c http://...; end
(From memory, may need tweaking.)
Cons of cryptocurrency outweigh the Pros. Yet these apps are on the app store.
And I'd be happy if they weren't, but people would be more upset over that than torrent clients.
Maybe so. Judgement is subjective.
How so?