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The internet provider on my dorm explicitly allows legal torrents
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Legal game updates as torrents? Is that a thing?
Humble Bundle distributes their DRM-free games and other content via BitTorrent.
I know WoW used bittorrent for game updates, it was built in and was the "standard" download mechanism.
https://worldofwarcraft.fandom.com/et/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader
I'm sure it's far from the only game that did.
Spotify got its start by distributing its music files peer-to-peer as well.
Embrace Extend Extinguish. Maybe they shouldn't have in the end
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Even Windows Update has a peer-to-peer option.
Back in the day FFXIV 1.0 distributed updates via torrent iirc.
League of Legends used to, don’t know if they still do. There was a setting in the patcher to turn p2p off.