On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Conor Daly wrote:
> 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?
You can connect to a tracker and view all connected clients without
downloading anything if you wish. With certain clients you can even tell
how much other clients have uploaded and downloaded. Some trackers also
publish such statistics in HTML form, negating the use of a client to grab
this data.
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