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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Bob has a 10 page document. The entire office of 100 people each want their own physical copy of this document.
Regular downloading would be equivalent to Bob himself making 100 copies of all 10 sheets and handing them out to each person.
But this office has several copy machines!
With torrenting, Bob starts by making a single copy of each sheet and handing them off to other people so that they can also use other copy machines to help copy the sheets and distribute them to the entire office. Much faster distribution.
I would not say torrenting has lost popularity, it’s just not the cool new “in” thing anymore.
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