Downloading torrent files
Using 'binwalk -E' or 'binwalk -E -F', you can easily see which blocks of a torrent file are already downloaded, and which are zero/empty blocks...
As of high-entropy music and video files, you can quickly see if it was downloaded fully, without zero blocks remained.
A real example: binwalk output and what qBittorrent shows.
I really do this when I find some (maybe (un)-finished) video file in Downloads directory.
Also, an archiver (like 7z, RAR, ZIP) can skip high-entropy files (because they are already uncompressable) to increase archiving speed. (Entropy can be measured quickly by small random spots in file.)
A more sophisticated compressor (like gzip, bzip, xz) can detect high-entropy spots in a file and skip them.
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