[ILUG] IOL Broadband handing over information.

[Gareth Eason]

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	No.

	BitTorrent will download (as per expectation) and seed with anything in
its cache. So if you previously downloaded $thing, it's likely that you
will be uploading bits of $thing while downloading $other_thing.

	You can, of course, seed material by telling your client to do so - if
you are the 'source' of the material. So you need not necessarily have
downloaded it in the past to be uploading it now (if you see what I
mean) - though this generally requires deliberate action on your part.

	Hope this helps.

	Best regards,
	-->Gar



Conor Daly wrote:
| On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:09:44AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
| Liam Bedford thought:
|
|>They don't have to give any information to anyone for you to be caught
|>using p2p sharing systems. Any client in a bittorrent download is also
|>participating in uploading the file too (in general, you can turn off
|>the uploads, but then your download speed will die).
|
|
| To clarify this, a bittorrent client is involved in the distribution
| _only_ of the file(s) it is involved in downloading so, to be seen
| uploading bits of StarWars (or whatever) the client must be downloading
| the same.  Is this a correct interpretation of BitTorrent?
|
| Conor
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