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The way to filter out garbage is to download things with lots of seeds, and if you still happen to download garbage, to immediately stop sharing it.
by fluoridation 3y ago
The way to filter out garbage is to download things with lots of seeds, and if you still happen to download garbage, to immediately stop sharing it.
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- latchkey 3y agoChicken/egg problem... as mentioned by someone else above... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37779341 > New releases of something that just came out tend to suffer from this, though. Sometimes the counterfeits reach escape velocity - the rate of people joining in downloading the counterfeit exceed the rate of people realizing and stopping, thus giving the illusion of a legit torrent.
- fluoridation 3y agoIt's possible. I never follow new releases. But back in the ed2k days, I'd say about half of just about any file you cared you search for was fake, regardless of age.
- grepfru_it 3y agoYou are what’s called, an edge case. A statistical anomaly. While that is great, you are far from the norm and not the target of this product (or even this particular thread :)