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Old 02-25-2007, 07:51 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Jadon
Other case: You go to a torrent or usenet search site, you enter some search terms, you get an nzb or torrent file. You feed that into a download program, you download the result. If the file was posted to a newsgroup within the last few months, it downloads in a minute. A torrent will generally take longer.
That's assuming you know all the "places" and how to find your way around them. Most people don't want to bother learning how torrents or newsgroups work or get badly formatted files full of OCR errors. For them it's just not worth the effort.
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