What makes y’all torrent instead of DDL? I read in the megathread that DDL is less likely to get you caught, but a lot of people on here seem to really enjoy torrenting and I must be completely clueless as to why. I’d like to have your insights

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    DDL links will eventually go down, and it’s a single point of failure, once down the file may be lost forever.

    Torrent is much more resilient long term.

    Not strictly torrent. But I still use eDonkey Network, and it’s healthy as hell, even as all projects are almost abandoned, as long as someone it’s using it you can share. The power of p2p