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[–] 86 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Torrent is fully decentralised and therefore accessible in practically all jurisdictions, regardless of the server status.

In many cases, I have also found Torrents to be considerably faster than direct downloads β€” however, your mileage may vary.

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  • [–] 46 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The torrent client also verifies the checksum for each chunk and automatically redownloads any corrupted chunks. With a direct download, you would have to manually verify the checksum and redownload the whole thing if it's corrupted.

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