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Skyler
Skyler@skylermzx·
Torrenting is just a file transfer protocal. Why would it be illegal?
Nav Toor@heynavtoor

You think torrenting is illegal. The U.S. Library of Congress disagrees. So does NASA. So did Twitter's own engineering team back in 2010. qBittorrent is the free, open-source, ad-free, no-cloud, no-subscription torrent client that the rest of the internet has been quietly using for 14 years. 37,661 stars. GPL-2.0+. Pushed today. Here is the wildest part: You: "Isn't BitTorrent a crime?" Hollywood: "Yes. We spent 25 years and billions of dollars proving it." You: "So who actually uses it?" Internet Archive: "We do. Millions of files. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Blender and LibreOffice all ship through us via BitTorrent." NASA: "We host our Ultra High Definition footage on the Internet Archive as torrents." Twitter Engineering, 2010: "We deploy code to our entire datacenter over BitTorrent. We named the system Murder. Nothing else is faster." Facebook Engineering, 2010: "Same." You: "So what is illegal?" Hollywood: "Downloading our movie. Not the protocol. Not the app. Not the seeding. Just our movie." You: "What does qBittorrent cost?" qBittorrent: "Nothing. No ads. No premium tier. No telemetry. Forever." Netflix Standard is $19.99 a month. Disney+ no-ads is $15.99 a month. HBO Max Standard is $16.99 a month. Spotify Premium is $12.99 a month. Google One 2TB is $9.99 a month. Dropbox Plus 2TB is $11.99 a month. That is over $1,000 a year to rent files that disappear when the contract ends. qBittorrent is $0 a year to move any file you legally own, between any two computers you legally own, at the speed of every seed on Earth. 100% Opensource. 100% Legal. 100% Yours. Hollywood spent a quarter century calling this a crime. NASA uses it to ship Mars.

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illusionsMD
illusionsMD@illusionsMD·
@Hamphield @skylermzx Idiots gonna idiot. That's not what you said at all. You just got called out for being an idiot and making a stupid statement on something you don't know about and now you're editing it in real time to look less stupid. Too late, damage is done. You're an idiot.
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