whats the point of torrents? like why dont people just share

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>posts entire file in one place
>immediately taken down, easily trackable

>posts small bits of the file in numerous places, helped out by many other individuals
>risk of being caught or file being taken down is minimized and someone else's file is always there to back up yours

>>59684135
what about people who upload their own free content who have an option to torrent it as well?

>>59684225
torrenting is cheaper - no server costs

Torrents are decentralized, so they're harder to take down, which is great for piracy. It also means that there's not a strain on a centralized server to provide the bandwidth for the file. Each individual who is downloading is simultaneously uploading the pieces of the file that they have already received. Therefore, when the number of users downloading is increasing, it may actually become faster to do file transfers. This is, of course, assuming that nobody's being a fucking leech.

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If only North Korea offered hosting services... Or any real communist country for that matter.