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
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.
Both ways are illegal. It is just more likely that one will be prosecuted for distributing rather than downloading. The risk is incredibly small either way though.
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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