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 distributed file sharing. Other folks who already have the file will offer to send it to you. It’s also split into parts, so you can get parts from multiple people at the same time, and increase your download speed. This technology is perfectly legal and totally amazing, but it’s often used to share copyright media without permission, this infringement is illegal. Prior to the media streaming days, this was kind of the only way to get movies online, so it was very popular. But with the advent of low cost streaming solutions, it has become less popular for that. But still is an awesome way to download files! You still see it with open source software for example.
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