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by selamtux 486 days ago
by the way they say "we didn't seed after the download" but what about while downloading in progress?
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dspillett 486 days ago
The claim is that they "took precautions not to 'seed' any downloaded files" - that probably means blocking all upload actions which is possible with many torrent clients. They may also have used a custom hacked client that didn't even connect to other nodes that didn't claim to have 100% already.
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sheepdestroyer 486 days ago
In any case it's really easy to configure a BitTorrent client to never seed. It would be dumb not to when torrenting for work.
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