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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
by 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 agoIt 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 agoYes, it goes against the distributed nature of the protocol so I think other clients should penalize such behavior in theory.