Skip to content

Comment on Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminalparent

Comments

Archive.org supports torrents for downloading huge files (i.e., >50gb archives of content) and the like.

You can probably debate endlessly piracy, ethics, "backups of media that have been purchased but have rotted away due to disc rot", etc. But fundamentally torrents are just a mechanism for delivery of large files or large sets of files, and they work extremely well for things in the tens-of-gigabytes range.

AboutSource Built by g1lg1l

Hackerly is an independent reader for Hacker News, built on the public HN API. Not affiliated with Y Combinator.