NEW POST! hah.

So today I was reading through an old Facebook message between myself and someone else. I was astounded that I had ever written anything so clever. I suspect you'll be astounded too, so I'm going to copy and past the highlights of the message.

(Person)

"hey...

you don't know why my torrents sometimes stop at a certain point and won't download any further than that, do you? "

(Me)

" yep.

It's because when you download torrents, you are downloading from whoever has the file, but you're also uploading to whoever else is downloading.
so.
You're uploading even though you don't have the whole file.
That's the way it is.
One person starts with the whole file, a few people download it, then the first person stops uploading it. Then, people keep downloading it, but only one or two people actually have the whole file.
If they go offline, bang! If no one has the complete file, everyone downloads till they have whatever the last person online who has the most of the file has. Understand?
Anyone can download whatever of the file is actually being uploaded, but when the only people who have the complete file go offline, you're screwed. Unless they come back online.
The people who have the whole file and are uploading it are called seeders. The people who are downloading and uploading at the same time are known as leechers.

did that explain anything? "

Am I smart, or what?

End of post.