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What are these torrent connections? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by wolfiedafloof@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39867783

When seeding a file. Let's say a movie, and all I see are a lot of connections where others try to download that movie. However, they remain at 0% and never download anything.

Almost feels like its something watching, logging connections to everyone connected to that torrent. Just a theory.. No idea. (Privacy conscious)

Maybe someone can shed some light?

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

something watching, logging connections to everyone connected to that torrent

Might be, FWIW there are quite a few ways to torrent in a rather private way, namely require encrypted connection, have a blocklist, require to be behind a VPN, etc ... but in the end you still share data with strangers, that's the core premise. The whole point is to facilitate the sharing of data reliably but then who joins the pool is outside of the protocol itself.