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It also might appear lower due to people using vpns for for torrenting on residential networks
The article touches on that. VPN traffic is itself a small category, so even if we assume all VPN traffic is torrenting, that doesn’t push it very far up the charts.
It’s a sad thing to see one more sign of how the big tech companies dominated the internet. A lot of people today don’t even know how to use their devices, but only how to use the products offered by those conpanies.
The writings been on the all for a long time. Public trackers are as good as dead. People have held on to a cocky attitude that there will always be somebody to take up the mantle but that hasn’t been true in so long. Anti-piracy has been winning by war of attrition.
The interest in bittorrent usage has been on a gradual decline for good decade at least. Try looking for some recent shows these days and you’ll be hard pressed to find many seeders for even popular ones. You’ll still be able to download it eventually but it’s a long way down from the heyday when obscure content was highly available.
These days everyone has streaming subscriptions or is logging in with someones account. The dwindling number of torrenters will download and watch relatively soon after release. Then the torrent dies real quick.
I’m pretty sure to much of the younger generations piracy means getting content from pirate streaming sites more than anything. The decline of PC usage has got to be a big factor too. There just isn’t anymore nerd culture of your PC being your main device much less leaving it running 24/7 with a torrent client. I bet soon enough as gen alpha comes of age, bittorrent will be a forgotten technology of the ancients.
like it or not. torrenting and keep it on local drive is good for preservation because we have shit like this https://www.ign.com/articles/anime-fans-frustrated-as-funimation-digital-copies-wont-move-to-crunchyroll
Really? We’ve been able to stream torrents for a few years now. I use it more than ever now because of this.
You dont have to be a nerd to run Stremio
Idk man i have a pirate box running public trackers and it finds everything eventually
The interest in bittorrent usage has been on a gradual decline for good decade at least. Try looking for some recent shows these days and you’ll be hard pressed to find many seeders for even popular ones. You’ll still be able to download it eventually but it’s a long way down from the heyday when obscure content was highly available.
I’m living in a country of an obscure language, and this is not really a problem here, so I’m a bit surprised to read this.
I am always surprised that even tech-savy ppl I know mostly are completely unaware of torrenting. They all use their streaming websites with tons of popups and ads and complain when they have to find a new one every now and then, I don’t get why they just won’t torrent even after showing them.
Edit: by streaming sites I mean pirate ones
They are not tech-savy.
They are computer science students who mess around with linux, idk how else you could call them
Because torrenting is strongly enforced by the law where I live, in Germany.
In france neither are enforced afaik