The CDC data torrent has the kind of seeding numbers that I would only expect from new releases of something popular. Incredible moment for digital archivism as an idea and movement.
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BitTorrent works by splitting up files to chunks and then people share them chunkwise as a group to speed things up and share the load. Sharing the file s called seeding. It’s good etiquette to seed at least twice the bandwidth of what to download, to pass it forward. This post says that’s happening
You can also download from first to last chunk. Say you have a video, you can start the torrent and begin watching immediately so long as you’re downloading faster than you can watch it
None of this data is illegal to have or share. I still advise using a VPN to do so anyway. Political retaliation does not require the law on its side and its not particularly hard to track a torrent.
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