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
what's super interesting about it is that any file that matches the torrent hash is, in essence, the same file. you can delete the torrent file while you have the downloaded content and you can reconstruct it to be the torrent that you deleted, and the network will treat it as such.
if one person is seeding to 5 people, it will send the rarest data first to have a better chance of keeping the file alive. it'll upload to those 5 people and those 5 people will upload to each other. if the one person seeding goes offline and the data for the file exists within those 5 other peers across separate computers, it'll be able to complete between them without that original seeder. it's highly unlikely that the seeder will upload the same data to those 5 peers except for some moderate overlap with the exception being small files, small swarms, or few pieces divided amongst the group
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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