There's a long history of antisocial-behavior-prevention stuff in peer to peer sharing applications. Overall they're usually a good thing. I'm with them on thi

There's a long history of antisocial-behavior-prevention stuff in peer to peer sharing applications. Overall they're usually a good thing. I'm with them on this. Sequential downloading leads to a bias in what pieces are available. If you're not sequentially downloading, you're contributing evenly back to the swarm. If you sequential-download, you're not...and you're potentially leaving the stream much sooner (if you don't finish watching etc.)