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Comment by selamtux

9 months ago

by the way they say "we didn't seed after the download" but what about while downloading in progress?

The claim is that they "took precautions not to 'seed' any downloaded files" - that probably means blocking all upload actions which is possible with many torrent clients. They may also have used a custom hacked client that didn't even connect to other nodes that didn't claim to have 100% already.

In any case it's really easy to configure a BitTorrent client to never seed. It would be dumb not to when torrenting for work.