6 ms·

It still uses bandwidth to download to your local Dropbox.

• incongruity 14y ago
  Right, but it lets you/your personal connection avoid one leg: instead of torrent -> local dropbox -> cloud dropbox, you get only use your bandwidth for cloud dropbox -> local dropbox. Given that many residential ISPs that meter data service don't differentiate between uploaded vs. downloaded data, that's a potentially valuable way to externalize the bandwidth requirements for your torrent (of undoubtedly legal/paid or public domain content, I'm sure)...
• Dylan16807 14y ago
  But not upload, which is usually far more restricted.
• Danieru 14y ago
  Which is one third of what it would take to download, maintain seed ratio of 1, and then push a copy to dropbox.