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For me torrenting is mostly just about its stigma for being illegal on the one side and its very competitive performance on the other side. So as soon as someo

For me torrenting is mostly just about its stigma for being illegal on the one side and its very competitive performance on the other side. So as soon as someone distributes some data via a torrent, everybody starts asking if it is legal to use that data. When the data is offered via a download link on some website, most people assume that they got the data through a legal channel.

octosphere 8y ago
> For me torrenting is mostly just about its stigma for being illegal on the one side There are still legitimate reasons to use torrents apart from piracy. I particularly like the physibles section of TPB https://thepiratebay.org/browse/605 https://thepiratebay.org/browse/605 which are not inherently illegal (well apart from the 3D printable guns which are a bit iffy and in a legal gray area).
- Arbalest 8y ago
  Though they do tend to be largely useless. Like some banned books, people download them just to have them.