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DDL links will eventually go down, and it's a single point of failure, once down the file may be lost forever.
Torrent is much more resilient long term.
Not strictly torrent. But I still use eDonkey Network, and it's healthy as hell, even as all projects are almost abandoned, as long as someone it's using it you can share. The power of p2p
eDonkey Network
It still exists?! Wow!
Where do you find stuff on the eDonkey Network?
With Amule.
It helps build a decentralized network, usefull as most governments are turning further autocrat.
Adding to this DDL store the content for a limited time. Some of the content after one week is almost impossible to find
It's really frustrating to search for old hard-to-find videos, at long last find some forum post with a DDL link, then find out that the DDL was deleted by the host due to inactivity.
Canada's laws on piracy are great.
They certainly are. I'll never own a house, but I can download anything I want.
Just a smoother and faster experience. No dead links, no slow downloads, no files that are separated into multiple parts...
You get a VPN and you don't have to worry about "getting caught". Private trackers just further elevate that experience and get you access to better content.
Also in this day and age getting a VPN and having it always on for general privacy enhancement, especially against snoopy governments (something which just keeps on getting worse), is also a good idea, plus it also lets you work around geographically restricted sites, so it ends up useful in multiple ways.
Torrenting makes me a part of a decentralized archive of all the linux iso's i find beautiful, which i think is cool, and increases total access.
Thats why they go after it. It's kinda like torrenting is just tye first target, because it's so democratized. If it falls, direct downloads are next, and they're much less resilient.
One thing i havent seen mentioned here yet is how easy it is to automate the download of tv shows and movies with torrents (and usenet) by using sonarr/radarr. Its a lot more convenient to just look up a show and select which seasons you want and have the rest done for you.
For me there's no "get caught", and many stuff are only available trough torrent, like some old/obscure movies (some could take a week to download), other only trough DDL like some UK TV shows.
Also for automate software like Radarr/Sonarr you only have torrents or nbz
DDL has too many annoyances to deal with and torrenting goes way more smoothly
Fast. I can fully use my 800 Mbps network while in DDL. It is usually capped at 40 or 60 Mbps. It has other downsides too like only being able to download one file at the same time or having a cooldown b/w download(which I am sure J2Downloader can fix that). I usually torrent or If I am in a hurry I just stream it from some good sites.
DDL costs money, whether in form of usenet blocks or a debrid subscription, or a subscription to the filehoster themselves if you rely on just one of them. Depending on where you live you can use torrents completely for free.
What’s DDL?
Direct download
Direct downloads.