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Not your point, but I actually do recommend torrenting linux ISOs... often much faster than direct downloads from the devs' websites. ;-)
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 know some sites (at least used to) ask you to please torrent if possible.
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 mean... the write speed of my flash drive (or the port it's plugged into) is usually my bottleneck