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Funny, most of those torrent got a __padding_file, which comes from bitcomet, a bad torrent client... I think? Other thing, I realized that there are less and
by jokoon 4y ago
Funny, most of those torrent got a __padding_file, which comes from bitcomet, a bad torrent client... I think?
Other thing, I realized that there are less and less torrent indexes those last 5 years, they all end up offline or full of ads.
- duskwuff 4y ago> Funny, most of those torrent got a __padding_file Those are supposed to be hidden by clients. They represent "free space" between files, allowing clients to download individual small files without having to also download the files adjacent to them.
- banana_giraffe 4y agoIt's part of BEP-47 [1], an extension meant to make it easier to handle single file downloads and multiple torrents serving the same file. BEP-47 aware clients, which is most of them these days, I think, hide these files from the user. [1] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0047.html https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0047.html
- smegsicle 4y agoyeah bitcomet had a similar, but incompatible scheme