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For those who missed the era of scrappy web utilities, BurnBit (burnbit.com) was a simple but radical tool. You gave it a URL—an MP3, a software ISO, a video file—and it returned a .torrent file. That’s it. But underneath that simple interface lay a powerful, experimental idea: What if every file on the web could be a peer-to-peer download?

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If you were a user of the original service, you remember the magic of pasting a URL and watching a swarm appear from nowhere. If you missed it, consider this a eulogy for one of the internet’s most interesting experiments. For those who missed the era of scrappy