Essentially the title. I was trying to download a file and my colleagues told me that I should use uTorrent. I did some research and figured that this was very popular a while ago, but since then has decreased in popularity. How does it work and why did it decrease in popularity?
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Torrents were heavily associated with piracy. When piracy saw a decline due to legal issues, popular services failing, and the rise of streaming. Torrenting also saw a decline. It’s still a great way to share files amongst people, but it is needed less and less with the advent and accessibility of cloud computing services.
But a torrent in the simplest sense, is a direct link to a file. But the fun thing about torrents are that, everyone that has that file linked up, can help send it to you. So if you and your friend wanted to transfer a picture of SpongeBob, you would be downloading the picture directly from your friend. Now if your friend’s sister wants the picture, she would be downloading it from you and your friend. So on and so forth.
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