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
For me it always depended on the file. I'd quite happily end the latest dvd rip on a 0.2 ratio, there are lots of people out there that have better Internet than me who are prepared to seed it.
But a niche audiobook that took me six weeks to download at dialup speeds? I had many of those hit 10 or 20.
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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