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 are just peer to peer file sharing. It is like going to someones house directly to give them a letter or a present instead of sending it through the mail.
I think it’s less popular for a few reasons.
There is some stigma around it because it is often used to distribute pirated material like movies.
Most people are tech illiterate, and there are easier ways to send files, like google drives. torrents can handle larger files, but most people don’t have any need to send large files to one another.
Also just for the record, utorrent is terrible and has been for years. qbittorrent is so much better
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