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

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[–] Gailthesnail2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] zeca@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.