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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting (arstechnica.com)

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Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting::Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.

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[-] Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah I torrent a lot of files like Linux ISOs

[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

It's so much easier and faster than using some mirror

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I can download from mirrors at the same speeds as torrents. The trick is to have a terrible internet subscription that's easily saturated by either of them.

[-] Ebsku@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Depends on the mirror though some mirrors are really slow

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