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.
