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The oldest active torrent in the world is already 15 years old

Torrents are often directly associated with piracy but the world's oldest active torrent shows just how well this method of file sharing can be beneficial to authors and potential content consumers. We talked about 'The Fanimatrix', a movie made by fans of 'The Matrix' released on BitTorrent on September 28, 2003.With YouTube and Netflix still being distant realities, the creators of the project had to resort to BitTorrent to distribute their project, which had a total budget of 800 dollars (about 689 euros). With no remaining budget for distribution, project managers had to find another cheaper solution, opting instead for the torrent sharing platform.The success of 'The Fanimatrix' was thus guaranteed, with the team to have verified 70 thousand downloads in just one week. Made some accounts by default, the team found that they saved about $ 550,000 in internet accounts in the first month alone."The fact that people continue to 'sow' [the film] over the years has made us feel good. While I suspect many of the people who do now are because they want to help keep the oldest active torrent alive. Which in itself is very cool, "said one of the project managers, Sebastian Kai Frost, to TorrentFreak.



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