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I always torrent large FOSS projects where possible. It's faster and doesn't tax the servers of the project.
That's not piracy, though, so I'm not sure why it's being talked about here...
I once mentioned "the joys of torrenting" to a friend and they immediately assumed piracy. I mean he wasn't wrong, but the lack of love for more standard use of P2P is saddening.
The launcher for War Thunder was a p2p client for sharing game files. It worked really well and was essentially it's own CDN. Not sure if it still is.
Steam can do that now but first gotta enable it for friends. Works great for multiple computers on a slower internet connection. One downloads it then shares to the rest.
doesn't that only work on local connections?
Well yes but that's the whole point. If there's no one local it'll be downloading from a CDN regardless.
People sometimes say "torrenting Linux ISOs" to mean pirating without outright saying it.