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Re:Boxopus lets you download torrents to Dropbox anonymously... by Maro on Sunday June 24, 2012 @05:17AM (#4152972)
So I forward the request to a peer who has the file, he tells me the answer, and bam. Doesn't the BT protocol allow the download of small segments of a file?
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Re:Boxopus lets you download torrents to Dropbox anonymously... by reacweb on Sunday June 24, 2012 @06:11AM (#4153041)
Yes and it is a win win result: you have proved that you have access to the file, so dropbox has only optimized bandwidth.
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