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 a peer2peer network. Instead of downloading from a central server you get the file from other users in the network. The file is split into many packages and the Torrent actively looks for packages you’re missing among other users who are online while distributing the ones you already have.
They lost a lot of popularity from two sources: first in many countries they are more illegal than straight up downloads when using them for copyrighted files, because you’re not only a consumer but also actively distributing copyrighted material wich usually comes with harsher punishments.
The other reason is that several torrent clients were found to use your computer for mining crypto
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