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28 June 2005

BT Oddness Lately I've been trying to download a certain TV show, and I'm getting these torrents that say the file is 350 mb, but it's apparently 3500 mb. I get to the 350 mb point in the download, and the progress meter says 10% completed. Is this a case of the networks uploading bum files to frustrate pirates?

post by: agropyron at: 11:36 | 3 comments

We can't help you. No one here knows anything about downloading copyrighted material. What are these "torrents" you speak of? ;)

posted by arse_hat 28 June | 13:33

It's a public domain TV show, of course. I speculated that the networks were uploading junk out of spite, to frustrate those they falsely suspected of being pirates, but who are in actuality law-abiding citizens.

posted by agropyron 28 June | 13:47

If you're using Azureus, try installing the SafePeer plugin. It'll automatically block peers that send you too much garbage data.

posted by nixxon 28 June | 14:01

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