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Frankly, it probably means absolutely nothing.
Even when captain coffee cup was the FCC chairman, did you lose the ability to torrent linux isos? Did usenet stop working?
I wouldn't expect anything different this time, either.
Who torrents linux isos? Linux OSes aren't illegal to pirate.
I gather that's a meme that's older than you are?
By linux ISOs I meant any content you're torrenting: movies, software, audio, my little pony porn, whatever.
Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs... often much faster than direct downloads from the devs' websites. ;-)
And it saves them on bandwidth costs!
Torrents are more reliable too. Every block gets its checksum verified automatically. If there is any corruption, the block will be downloaded again. With a direct download, you have to verify the checksum yourself and if it's corrupted, you have to download the entire ISO again.
I know some sites (at least used to) ask you to please torrent if possible.
I always seed the big ones, but sadly, rolling release distros outside of Arch and smaller distros have abandoned torrents because they change snapshots too frequently and/or don't have the user mass to support it.
I mean... the write speed of my flash drive (or the port it's plugged into) is usually my bottleneck
Less that the meme is older than them, probably more so they don't realize why we torrent Linux iso's.
I can pull down an ISO in seconds over torrent, whole it takes minutes over https. Also it's nice to add some of the good stuff to the traffic, if only to pad all the illegal traffic with some legitimate stuff.
Torrents are always better because they don't cost the open source projects anything to host. Direct downloads are expensive relatively speaking for server bandwidth/cdn costs, while torrents can be distributed by the community.
Excellent point! Yet another reason why Linux isos should always be torrented!
Everyone should pirate my little pony porn. Wait, there's Rule-34, I digress.
Also, please stop carting around old and unfunny memes. Learn to know when memes stop being funny.
NeoToasty being in charge of memes. What does that mean to shitposters and going forward?