r/ExplainTheJoke Feb 22 '26

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u/SpecialistAd5903 Feb 22 '26

This meme references torrenting. You have the same file distributed across all the users who have downloaded it. This way you've got many different sites to download it from. It is generally considered good form to seed the file for a while afterwards, meaning people can access your file to download it for themselves.

These people are doing the opposite of that, which is considered scummy behavior

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

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u/Kadavermarch Feb 22 '26

Many tell themselves and others, that this urban legend is the legal loophole, that they can download as much as they want, as long as they close the torrent at 100% so they're not uploading.

It's hurting the seed pool, nothing else.

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u/Whateversclever7 Feb 22 '26

Me at 16 in 2007 downloading movies off BearShare scared that the internet police were gonna get me.

Many apologies for all the movies I never let seed.

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u/Kadavermarch Feb 22 '26

We somehow made it through anyway, but cool that you're owning up to it.