The cursor blinked off. The torrent client minimized to the system tray, quietly uploading in the background—a tiny node in the endless, anarchic library of the BitTorrent network.
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Alex noticed the numbers next to his search result: . This was excellent. A thousand people were broadcasting the file, while only 89 were downloading (leeching). The swarm was fat with data. The cursor blinked off
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