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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by kube-system on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:19PM (#32767764)
There are many things with technically legal purposes that people often choose not to associate with because they find the cons outweigh the pros. This is that.
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by sieabah on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:23PM (#32767823)
I wish torrenting for general downloads was more popular. I had unstable internet that would make downloading anything over 100MB impossible.

Slap a torrent together of the same payload and it'd be guaranteed not to stall/error because of the network.

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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by kube-system on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:28PM (#32767899)
I agree, I wish they were more common, but you don't need torrents to solve any issues with resuming downloads. HTTP supports sufficient functionality to accomplish this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by mixmastamyk on Thursday September 08, 2022 @04:47PM (#32771878) 

    while; wget -c http://...; end
(From memory, may need tweaking.)
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by tonypags on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:31PM (#32767949)
Cons of cryptocurrency outweigh the Pros. Yet these apps are on the app store.
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by pwinnski on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:49PM (#32768213)
And I'd be happy if they weren't, but people would be more upset over that than torrent clients.
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by kube-system on Thursday September 08, 2022 @12:35PM (#32768015)
Maybe so. Judgement is subjective.
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple allow torrent clients on the ap... by HereIGoAgain on Thursday September 08, 2022 @02:27PM (#32769827)
How so?
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