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[–] incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Without seeds, torrents become almost useless, and many pirate sites offer rare and hard-to-find movies/animes whose torrent versions never download because their seeds are practically extinct forever. So I don't think this is a weak complaint. If torrents didn't have this weakness I would always choose to use them but...

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The usenet has many treasures

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Especially if you buy access via 2 providers on different backbones. Haven't had a single failed/incomplete download since.

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