You're totally right. For some reason I was thinking the quantity downloaded could exceed the quantity uploaded in a torrent swarm, but that's just wrong. The

You're totally right. For some reason I was thinking the quantity downloaded could exceed the quantity uploaded in a torrent swarm, but that's just wrong. The inputs equal the outputs. I now see that { A->B, A->C, A->D } is three separate one-to-one mappings, instead of a single one-to-many mapping, in the context of A sharing a chunk with B, C, and D.