On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:09:44AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Liam Bedford thought:
>> They don't have to give any information to anyone for you to be caught
> using p2p sharing systems. Any client in a bittorrent download is also
> participating in uploading the file too (in general, you can turn off
> the uploads, but then your download speed will die).
To clarify this, a bittorrent client is involved in the distribution
_only_ of the file(s) it is involved in downloading so, to be seen
uploading bits of StarWars (or whatever) the client must be downloading
the same. Is this a correct interpretation of BitTorrent?
Conor
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