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Wtf
Torrenting is just too much effort. I'd rather download cracked software without the torrent process.
What
I'd rather... get my pirated software quicker and easier? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Keep sailing the high seas, I'll be flying a plane instead.
There are websites where you could skip the torrent process entirely. No I won't list them. They're sacred to me, I can't live without them.
I remember torrenting as a kid, never knew what seeding meant so I'd seed like 24/7. All I know is that downloading a torrent file takes ages, then extracting it takes centuries, all for there to be a rar, 7z, or zip inside.
Who needs μtorrent when μ could just use 7Zip?
Who uses uTorrent anymore lol.
Use qbittorrent, download torrents with a good amount of seeds from reputable trackers and your speeds should be significantly faster than direct downloads. It's not 2002, you don't need to download NFS for the PSP split across 100 .rar files from Mediafire or turbobit (or megaupload if you were lucky).
Shows when I stopped torrenting lmfao
uTorrent is an application, torrent is a protocol, zip is a file format. You're comparing apples to oranges to zebras here.
Anything that downloads slow is because there are few seeders and they have bandwidth that is either limited or saturated.
I personally gave up on torrenting when 80%+ of them wouldn't start downloading even when there were apparently many active seeders. I still pay for my vpn just in case, but I haven't even had a client on my machine in over 18 months and I can't recall when I fired it up before that.
I just pay for streaming services. All I really miss is the blu-ray quality.
I'd buy Photoshop and Dreamweaver 2020 editions once.
I'm not paying a subscription.
I pay for Microsoft 365 as the integration on Windows is seamless. Just make a onedrive folder my default folder for an application and it's already backed up, easy! And I can access it from any device in at least 5 minutes. Easy. I literally pay for onedrive storage, so the office applications are a awesome side benefit.
If I wasn't a onedrive user, I'd pirate office applications as well.