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Re: [OT] bit torrent
Quoting Stephen (ukha@xxxxxxx):
> As I understand it, you download the binary and when you finish you
> then upload the binary to others. At the moment I have a download at
> 26kb/s and an upload of 0.3kb/s. Surely I cannot be uploading to
> others since I have only just started downloading myself; I do not
> have much of the file to share! Is this just parity information going
> back to the originator? I'm just a bit nervous about trojans etc.
bittorrent splits the file up into lots of small pieces that can be
downloaded from many different sources. You have to download them all,
obviously, to get the complete file/whatever, but they're uploadable
individually as soon as you've downloaded each piece.
James
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