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This have nothing to do with bittorrent, the bittorrent protocol and torrents came long before people started sharing illegal copies of software. It's a great technology and it's actually meant to make downloads faster.


The protocol was made available in 2001. Your history is off by a longshot.


Umm, no.

The very first bittorrent torrent was a 100 MB pirated porn video. I still have it.

The client was a .py script. And it was hardcoded with said video.


Of course "warez" and such appeared earlier, but it ws far from being so mainstream. And I'm still correct about the first purpose of the protocol.




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