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for some reason, there are twitter accounts distributing movies in cloud storage rather than torrents. (lemmy.ml)

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[-] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 13 points 22 hours ago

I think it's in part because of NAT. Less and less people have a real IP address, so they can't share the torrents to others, and most VPNs don't provide an upload port either.

The tracker websites are also increasingly hostile with malicious ads, so those with ineffective ad blockers can't use them.

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Qbittorrent works with my double-nat set up (don't ask why, my isp sucks) without any set up. I feel like it's more of a tech literacy issue.

[-] Mondez@lemdro.id 4 points 12 hours ago

Torrent clients can cope behind NAT but can only upload/download from other peers that have a port open so they are more limited in the pool of peers they can make use of.