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That may have been true at one point, but it is a totally obsolete practice due to Bittorrent.

• krakensden 15y ago
  This is the upstream of the public bittorrent releases- and they still do lots of strange, unfashionably archaic stuff.
• dfc 15y ago
  What are you talking about? Do you think the cappers are seeding the torrents themselves? A lot things happen before you start leeching from tpb...
  • icebraining 15y ago
    Bittorrent isn't used just on public sites; you can use the same technology to share between a very select group.
• methoddk 15y ago
  It's still true to this day. Real scene is still done with FXP and then leeched down the food chain to BT/NGz/p2p/etc... Releases are out for hours before they even make it to open user levels. Get it where it's hot, yo.
  • glomph 15y ago
    >hours This is rarely true of most scene releases these days. They will hit private bittorrent trackers often within seconds of preing, and public ones not long after that.