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		bonoboTP on Aug 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pir... Since the whole system relies on people seeding, even if this may be possible technically, clients don't tend to support it as a feature.

yardstick on Aug 24, 2024 [–]

There are some services where you send a torrent file/magnet link and it’ll download the file for you, so you can download over HTTPS. I believe those particular services intentionally don’t reseed.

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