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by baybal2 1793 days ago
From experience with Gnutella, spammers can just fake the seeder number.

Gnutella, unlike BT can propogate standalone chunk hashes alone, as I understood, so you can weed out fakes early. BT doesn't have that before you start the download.

Gnutella 2 has even more armaments to weed out fakes