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It can happen the other way. Torrents replacing dedicated hosting services. The traffic on the Internet is increasing at an enormous rate. In future, the current rate of infrastructure development may not cope up with the bandwidth needs. And so file hosting services may not be able to withstand this increasing usage. Torrents on the other hand offers more distributed way of sharing files. In future usage of torrents for legal purposes may increase and more widespread. All said, this is just a personal view and does not take into account any other media.

There are many freelance sites which act as middle men between provider and requester. Some of these sites ask for money from provider or requester or both. So, the quality of jobs offered depends on this. For individual freelancers looking for short term projects, getafreelancer.com is the best place to find them. They have many types of jobs posted ranging from programming to data entry, translation. For more complex and competitive long term projects odesk.com is the place, where they even offer qualifications through various online tests. Both the sites don't charge any fees for joining, but charge fees as commission if and only if the projects are accepted.