On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:13:01AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] > "Ideally" that's how it's supposed to work, but isn't how it works as of > present-day. Speaking solely about the BitTorrent protocol, upstream does > not affect downstream speed. In fact, there's a BitTorrent client out > there which specifically *does not* share any of the data being downloaded > (thus acting as a pure leeching client):
Yes, but if *everybody* did that, nobody would be uploading and thus there would be nothing being downloaded.
