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> You can stream 4K movies on Netflix. I'm betting you can't do that as well with a torrent...

Depends on the torrent. Any popular "Linux ISO" can easily saturate my 1400mbps download speed so I download the UHD bluray remux whenever it's available. Videos encoded at 100mbps look at a lot better on a high dpi display compared to Netflix's 10mbps "4K" and also doesn't limit you to clients that support DRM.

The UX isn't great, but if you select the "Download in sequential order" option you can start watching a torrent in 5 seconds while it downloads in the background




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