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finishing torrents and seeding question (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 1 month ago by cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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this may be a dumb question but i was reading some articles and trying to understand seeding and peers; i generally pull up a torrent and grab the actual files but uncheck the random txt files like the ones that say where it was downloaded from (just for personal preference to keep my directories clean). does that cause any problems for others? should i not be excluding them from downloading? i generally keep torrents seeding when they're done but if i don't download those small files am i causing problems?

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[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Generally, no. Some private trackers will give you trouble for it, but it's not a terrible thing to do. It just means there are less sources of those files for other peers. This could lead to someone not getting the full download and being stuck at 99%, if you're the only seeder online. For popular torrents, no harm done at all