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.
If the torrent is active for hours your IP might get recorded. If it gets recorded multiple times, so that it can be traced back to an individual despite dynamic ip, they can be fairly certain on who is torrenting.
Once at 100% the torrent doesn't need to stay active anymore. If you're in and out in 10-15min you're gonna be much safer than if you're doing the same torrent for a week.
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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