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Originally Posted by Gazella
What others have said, torrenting is pirating and is illegal.
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"Torrenting," itself, is not pirating -- though it is often used for pirating. It's also used for large, legal downloads, like my Linux Mint DVDs (and also used with many other Linux distributions). It spreads the load around, so the main servers aren't hit so hard when there are new releases of the DVDs. For Linux DVD downloads, the torrent download is often much faster than a regular HTTP download from a server.