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Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP by shawabawa3 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:37AM (#13470821)
chronological downloads never really kill swarms. If everyone is downloading chronologically, then the earlier pieces are more in demand, but they also have more supply

The only thing that kills swarms is average seed ratio < 1

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Re:BitTorrent vs. HTTP by numerlo on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @08:03AM (#13470961)
They do as the supply of the final pieces is low and if they go offline the torrent could die. Happens a lot in less popular torrents.
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