Hi, I was wondering how they do this and if there is a way to “cheat” the amount of data you are downloading or seeding.

  • AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    If you don’t want to go to the effort to maintain a ratio, just use Usenet and never worry about seeding or leeching again.

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      1 year ago

      This is the first time I ever hear of Usenet… read a little… but honestly sounds freakishly scary… torrents are anyway filled with malware… and now we have to trust a centralized source for files?

      Do clients that use Usenet verify public torrent file hashes? How is security handled such that I know the files aren’t infected compared to whatever the same torrent offers?