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potustheplant@feddit.nl 13 hours agoThen don’t use torrents. Leeching without seeding is literally how torrents die.
Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*
potustheplant@feddit.nl 13 hours agoThen don’t use torrents. Leeching without seeding is literally how torrents die.
Psythik@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Caching a torrent isn’t leeching. Like the other person said, it actually helps because it prevents multiple people from doing a hit and run. The torrent only needs to get cached once, and then everyone can just directly download that file, bypassing the torrent entirely.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 6 hours ago
Caching a torrent requires downloading, no? What guarantee do you have that they’re seeding that leech?
Psythik@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
There is no guarantee, because they’re not seeding. There’s one hit-and-run, then the torrent is cached on a server for anyone to directly download. Again, IMO one hit-and-run is still better than thousands.