There are so many good sites now with a VPN, downloading is obsolete. Websites are just as good as Netflix, can skip intro, auto play, get subtitles, auto next, etc. I used to torrent but now I just watch on the sites online. No need to fill SSDs

I dunno, sometimes you can’t count on them to buffer quick enough.

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Aside from comparison of quality, running a streaming platform is very resource intensive, hence requires a lot of money.

The burden of torrent download is instead spread among many peers.

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