Comment by giantrobot
15 hours ago
The Internet Archive's torrents are a sick joke. I've yet to find one that actually manages to complete. They always get stuck at 90-something percent but that final blocks always fail verification and get retried, fail, and the process repeats forever. Because they're web seeds they're hitting IA infrastructure and not offloading to a real swarm. So their broken torrents are just screwing themselves.
The torrent generator races with the uploader and runs on a half-finished upload.
Interesting, I haven’t encountered this problem yet.