• cashsky@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Isn’t it kind of a middle-man service so you don’t get narc’d on by your ISP for large amounts of p2p traffic? That way all your ISP sees is you downloading data from one source rather than lots of.p2p traffic.

    Unless you use vpn obviously, that doesn’t have issues with p2p traffic or whatever.

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      2 days ago

      And in many countries downloading is just fine, sharing isn’t.

      And in a torrent swarm you always share (yes there are modded clients, but they’re a niche), making it risky