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by bayesianbot 1356 days ago
The protocol should be able to find same files in other torrents - you could be downloading a bunch of files (like a season of TV), but are able to find and download one file from another torrent that is better seeded (like one single episode torrent). But I don't think any of the clients implement that yet.
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That's great!

I suppose they removed bittorrent's weirdness of allowing chunks to overlap multiple files. That was the original sin that caused all this