The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)
The reason why for me, someone with a netflix and amazon prime account in Germany, bittorrent is neither dead nor declining (for movies and TV shows):<p>a) Being on time. If you want to take part in the online discussion about tv shows, you have to watch them on time. For a ton of shows I can&#x27;t even buy episodes on the day they come out. Torrenting is still the far superior choice.<p>b) Languages. Yes netflix, I know that I live in Germany. That does not mean that I don&#x27;t want to have the option of watching anime in Japanese with English subtitles. And Amazon, it&#x27;s great that I found out you are now showing advertisements before every episode, but it&#x27;s also in German. While everything else on amazon.de is in English for me.<p>c) Quality. I don&#x27;t care that your algorithm thinks my network is not fast enough for HD. Just let me tell it that it&#x27;s wrong. Or I could torrent and download something in actual HD within just a few minutes.<p>The worst thing is that all of those are completely artificial. There is no technological reason for any of those problems to exist. And ignoring if I want to or not, in most cases I don&#x27;t even have the option of throwing absurd amounts of money at them to make them go away. Because of greed, laziness and&#x2F;or stupidity, torrenting is still the superior option in most cases. For me.<p>PS: Mostly thanks to Bandcamp.com music torrenting is completely dead for me.