Hiya, imagine: I’m downloading let’s say a game, to keep it simple.
At first it goes wel, goes to 65% but then the torrent starts to lose seeds and leeches and in the end it turns up dead. Now I have all these files that are wasted cause if I take another torrent with the same game(= same files) I’ll have to download them all over again. Is there a way to avoid this?
=> Download from a different torrent with the old files. Possible?
NO
You can try and see if any part of the files will pass the hash check. And thats only if they were the same file type and have the same file name.
Even that’s not enough, the download process being completely independent of filenames. The piece size would also have to be exactly the same, or every single piece would fail its hashcheck.
That’s a big minus to the otherwise great p2p system.
Not really. If a file isn’t the same its not the same. This works the same way on other p2p programs as well.
If you carefully select your torrents, you will rarely run into this problem.
I have been able to continue torrents on a different torrent before, but this is rare.
Suspect
I think it’s a big plus, myself. Because of that, nobody can alter a torrent to, say, slip a trojan into it and spread it to all the unwitting leechers.