Downloading beats streaming in exactly one situation, which is having no internet later, and that is why 14 torrent sites sit on a streaming directory. This page is shorter than the others and scored differently. Trackers are ranked on library size and how much junk sits between you and the actual file, not on how a player behaves, because there is no player involved.
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How torrenting differs from streaming
Streaming sends you the video as you watch. Torrenting transfers the whole file first, which means waiting, storage, and two pieces of software, a client to fetch the file and a player that can handle whatever format it arrives in. VLC handles essentially everything.
In exchange you get the thing streaming cannot do: the file is yours, it plays offline, the quality does not drop because a server is busy, and nothing disappears because a domain was seized.
Reading a torrent before you download it
Seeders are the number that matters. A torrent with a healthy seeder count downloads quickly and finishes; one with a single seeder may never complete. Prefer a well-seeded older release over a fresh one with nothing behind it.
Then read the comments and the file list. Comments are where people report that a release is mislabelled or broken. The file list is where you notice that a 700 MB film somehow contains an .exe, which is not a film, and should end your interest in that release immediately.
Privacy is a genuine difference here
Torrenting is not anonymous by design. Everyone in a swarm can see the IP addresses of everyone else, which is how monitoring firms compile the letters that ISPs forward on. That is a meaningful difference from streaming, where the exchange is between you and one server.
This is a factual point about how the protocol works, not advice about what to do with it. Local law varies considerably and it is worth knowing where you stand.
Free and legal downloading
The Internet Archive distributes a large public-domain film and audio collection, much of it over torrents, entirely legally. Project Gutenberg and LibriVox do the same for books and audiobooks. Many Linux distributions are also distributed this way, which is what the protocol was built for.