After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed

Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by paulddraper on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:37PM (#19998253)

> You can't play a torrented file until the download is 100% complete.

That's just not true.

I've used uTorrent, and I recall deciding whether I wanted to stream or not. It worked well too.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by afiori on Friday May 24, 2019 @05:20AM (#19999827)

This is addressed as "abusing the protocol"

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by paulddraper on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:45AM (#20002717)

And given that most popular clients allow you to, this because worthy of the "95% theoretical problem" title.

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Re:After 15 Years, the Pirate Bay Still Can’t Be Killed by m-p-3 on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:03AM (#20013039)

How is it abusing the protocol if it allows you to do it?

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