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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Everyone that has a file shares that file.
You download the file in parts, with little pieces coming from each person.
It’s typically slower, the popularity comes from the fact that it does not require you to have a high bandwidth server available to facilitate lots of downloads. This makes it low-cost, and therefore very popular for things that are typically used in the non-profit sector.
The way it works lends itself to piracy, and in technical circles if you mention torrents that is what most people are going to expect you’re using them for.
This means that a lot of torrent programs are *shady as fuck*, further stigmatizing the methodology. This, in addition to the fact that it requires a separate program with its own configuration *at all*, makes using torrents more difficult than a conventional download, and creates a barrier to entry. Reducing its popularity.
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