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.

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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?