Honestly he is talking out of his ass, torrents are neither dead nor slow nor used by nobody. They’re very much alive.

Back in the day, people shared files on usenet news, which was similar to the forums you’re seeing on Lemmy or Reddit.

You’d take a file, image, video, whatever, and turn it into text via a program called uuencode.

Text size posting limits often meant having to split the image into multiple text pieces all marked (1/34, 2/34, etc.)

The person downloading the file would then need to stitch all the pieces together, in order, making one large text file, then use uudecode to turn it back into a usable file.

Here’s a sample of what a uuencoded file looked like:

You’ll want to do some research on nzb files and their transfer mechanism. I’d say both nzb and torrents together is the best option because you have redundancy rather than one is better than the other

I know I get all my up to date piracy information from a comedian podcast.

torrents are last decade, and newsgroups is where it’s at for this stuff

100% accurate. There are a ton of guides online to getting your indexer and providers picked and set up. It’s a much better space than torrents. I’m never going back into the muck with those things.

Faster download speeds, high cost of entry, and a lot more malware