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Can someone explain why I might use this instead of downloading a select group of files using a torrent file/magnet link? Is the advantage that it selectively downloads files on an as-needed basis? Or, is the product niche somehow related to the fact that the torrent file/magnet link is mounted as a filesystem, instead of only as a collection of files and folders?

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The latter - it lets you navigate the file structure of a torrent as well as read (stream) file content using any of your usual applications, without having to download the files first.

Streaming. I thought about this in the interfile sense, but not the intrafile sense. This makes sense.

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