The Fanimatrix movie might not be the most actively seeded torrent available right now, but the fact that the oldest active torrent it’s still kicking around after 15 years is an achievement in itself. Sharing large files like movies and games over the internet was difficult for the same reasons, but BitTorrent, an emerging tech at the time, allowed users to share fragments of files between machines to ultimately dodge the costs of bandwidth the initial uploader would incur as more people downloaded the file. Due to far slower speeds and expensive bandwidth costs, streaming video was practically unheard of at the time with YouTube still being 3 years away from existence and Netflix being nothing more than a postal rival to the almost mythical Blockbuster. As Torrentfreak points out, 15 years in internet time is a long time indeed, and things have changed far more than you might think over that period in terms of the world wide web.
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