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BitTorrent vs. HTTP
Side note: AFAIK Popcorn time generally uses very crowded swarms (e.g. YIFY torrents) so chronological downloads do not kill the swarms.
shawabawa3
on Jan 24, 2017
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chronological downloads never really kill swarms. If everyone is downloading chronologically, then the earlier pieces are more in demand, but they also have more supply
The only thing that kills swarms is average seed ratio < 1
numerlo
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They do as the supply of the final pieces is low and if they go offline the torrent could die. Happens a lot in less popular torrents.
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