Torrenting is just a file transfer protocal. Why would it be illegal?
You think torrenting is illegal.
The U.S. Library of Congress disagrees.
So does NASA.
So did Twitter's own engineering team back in 2010.
qBittorrent is the free, open-source, ad-free, no-cloud, no-subscription torrent client that the rest of the internet has been quietly using for 14 years.
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Here is the wildest part:
You: "Isn't BitTorrent a crime?"
Hollywood: "Yes. We spent 25 years and billions of dollars proving it."
You: "So who actually uses it?"
Internet Archive: "We do. Millions of files. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Blender and LibreOffice all ship through us via BitTorrent."
NASA: "We host our Ultra High Definition footage on the Internet Archive as torrents."
Twitter Engineering, 2010: "We deploy code to our entire datacenter over BitTorrent. We named the system Murder. Nothing else is faster."
Facebook Engineering, 2010: "Same."
You: "So what is illegal?"
Hollywood: "Downloading our movie. Not the protocol. Not the app. Not the seeding. Just our movie."
You: "What does qBittorrent cost?"
qBittorrent: "Nothing. No ads. No premium tier. No telemetry. Forever."
Netflix Standard is $19.99 a month.
Disney no-ads is $15.99 a month.
HBO Max Standard is $16.99 a month.
Spotify Premium is $12.99 a month.
Google One 2TB is $9.99 a month.
Dropbox Plus 2TB is $11.99 a month.
That is over $1,000 a year to rent files that disappear when the contract ends.
qBittorrent is $0 a year to move any file you legally own, between any two computers you legally own, at the speed of every seed on Earth.
100% Opensource.
100% Legal.
100% Yours.
Hollywood spent a quarter century calling this a crime.
NASA uses it to ship Mars.