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by Rychard 2588 days ago
Bittorrent tries to maximize the benefit of its P2P nature by not sending the same blocks to more than one peer.

i.e. I'll send block 1 to one peer, block 2 to another peer. Then I can send blocks 3 and 4 to them (respectively), while they each send each other blocks 1 and 2.