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

  • Gailthesnail2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Why would you have fast internet when torrenting but slow internet when direct downloading?

    If you direct download at 20-30 MB/s even a 50 GB file will finish in 20-30 min then none of that stuff about pausing matters at all

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      3 hours ago

      I made up that speed just to give an example. The thing about pausing/resuming is an advantage of torrents in general, for whoever needs it. Besides, when you download a file via DDL the speed also depends on the server thats sending, which is sometimes much slower than your download speed limit.