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You can. BitTorrent doesn't order file fragments by design, but clients can choose to ignore this and request pieces in order. See Popcorn time and many other i

• cbhl 12y ago
  Why don't the other clients in the swarm penalize the client for this behaviour? Downloading all the fragments in order means that if the initial uploader drops off, everyone is stuck.
  • rakoo 12y ago
    It kinda works here because the shared files are already very popular, and there's a lot of seeders (ie peers who have 100% of the file and can share any part). It wouldn't work for unpopular files.
  • shmerl 12y ago
    Yes, it goes against the distributed nature of the protocol so I think other clients should penalize such behavior in theory.