Mildly Interesting

They're not trying to actually stop you; they're trying to keep the lawyers at bay.

And make sure it isn't PIA... I am using it and i wasnt aware it was zionist controlled!

In that case they should have been promoting VPN usage ''(^-^)

Yeah, this is just a student-run association running it, providing connection from university's upstream ISP which apparently is easy to upset.
I posted this because I actually find this nice, as it doesn't fully block torrents, but just specific ones, and they also make that clear. They could just block torrents and stay safe.

Func fact: Some dorm rooms apparently actually have 2.5Gbit. I've seen the speed test. Of course, you'll need a compatible network card. Most have "only" a gigabit.

Not a new thing either z this has happened for decades now

Use a VPN, people! The "we're watching you" is not a joke, LOADS of parties are watching your every action, actually

VPN's are the new essential subscription service for online content. Back in the olden times, we had to pay for minutes of using internet and long distance phone calls, today we have to pay for privacy and access to content we're "not allowed" to see. And what you're allowed to see or not is a strange, politically motivated list that is always changing.

What's wrong with Nord?

Yeah college networks are one of the biggest ones I would not trust unless I had a VPN going. Average computing? Perfectly fine. Naughty things? VPN up

It's still horrifying today. We're just powerless to stop it.

Or even 25 years ago! They (and in many cases we) tried to warn them. Turns out the other "they" are happy to give it away for AI slop videos.

Coming from an IT perspective, I can tell you 100% that torrenting on a network can cause a bottleneck with the amount of bandwidth that it often can take especially if it's not set up properly. Several years ago I remember working in a corporate network and we had our internet slow down to a near crawl because one person decided they wanted to torrent a movie during one of our busiest seasons. Let's just say we're able to track them down and they got fired on the spot.

This is going to depend on the country that you're in. Germany for example is pretty notorious for also going after the small fries.

Isn't it harder to find direct downloads? Or am I just stuck in the past on the bay?

Humble Bundle distributes their DRM-free games and other content via BitTorrent.

I know WoW used bittorrent for game updates, it was built in and was the "standard" download mechanism.

https://worldofwarcraft.fandom.com/et/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader

I'm sure it's far from the only game that did.

Even Windows Update has a peer-to-peer option.