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- verb Present participle of
torrent .
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Examples
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I never liked the idea of torrenting movies and tv shows because IMO, storing the files locally is a waste of space and effort.
Boxee Founder Avner Ronen On The Future Of Your Living Room | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I know its a fad to call torrenting hacking, but its just plain ole bootlegging which takes no skill whatsoever and has been around since cassette tapes and 5-1 / 4 floppies.
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You know I at least find the idea of torrenting what you own at least semi-legal, but the baby scenario is just plain crazy.
Boing Boing 2009
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"You know I at least find the idea of torrenting what ..."
Boing Boing 2009
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This is not the sort of thing which lends itself to torrenting, e-books, or arguably even a collected edition.
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I used GrandPerspective for the hard disk image to find those elusive giant ISOs ... and I use Cocktail for maintenance scripts instead of Onyx, and AppZapper for uninstalling ... however, functionality wise, my mac is still good, the only degradations being a rapid filling up of the hard drive and dramatic loss of 3% of my battery's life thanks to all that torrenting ... skorned
Clean Up And Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I grew up on the cusp (just before it, really) of illegal online distribution of media, but never myself partook in the music craze of Napster or the torrenting of anime in later years.
Saturday speculation 2010
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I imagine many do have viruses, but if you're torrenting, you already know the risks; Microsoft shouldn't need to tell you.
Beware Of Viruses In Office 2010 BitTorrent Builds | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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At the same time, WotC has announced they are suing eight individuals for infringement based on torrenting the PHB2.
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You complain about someone torrenting your product?
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