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by scarejunba 2592 days ago
On the edonkey network, the file size would be reported raw but the clients could compress and transfer chunks to each other. Some guy had created an empty IL-2 sturmovik iso and seeded it. We lived at a government facility with ill-policed high speed (for the time) internet but even then I knew that I didn’t have a 400 Mbps connection. Maybe 2002/2003.

The whole thing only transferred a few kB. It looked like an entire disc though.