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The Internet Archive's torrents are a sick joke. I've yet to find one that actually manages to complete. They always get stuck at 90-something percent but that
by giantrobot 17d ago
The Internet Archive's torrents are a sick joke. I've yet to find one that actually manages to complete. They always get stuck at 90-something percent but that final blocks always fail verification and get retried, fail, and the process repeats forever. Because they're web seeds they're hitting IA infrastructure and not offloading to a real swarm. So their broken torrents are just screwing themselves.
- mitxela 16d agoThe torrent generator races with the uploader and runs on a half-finished upload.
- giantrobot 13d agoWhich results in a plainly broken torrent. I've yet to find a torrent client that can effectively download IA's broken torrents. Of course they're not all broken. So you don't get to know it's broken until you're bouncing back and forth between 98 and 99% for a week.
- notpushkin 16d agoInteresting, I haven’t encountered this problem yet.