Many countries with strict internet laws became extremely vigilant about torrents and actively monitored what was being transmitted through users. The ability to pirate content is what made torrents largely infamous. Torrents solved a huge problem for me and soon after, download managers with such abilities became widespread. I had a very useless dialup internet connection and it was impossible to be able to download anything larger than a few megabytes without it being disconnected. The pause and resume feature blew my mind when I first came across roughly 13-14 years ago. The ability to pause and resume downloads on will (something which wasn’t widely available when they launched) and 2.
Torrents became popular for two major reasons: 1. Torrents provide users the ability to download files in minuscule chunks from a large number of users. If you haven’t been living under a rock for the last 10 years or so, it’s certain that you’ve come across the term ‘torrent’.
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