cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39867783
When seeding a file. Let’s say a movie, and all I see are a lot of connections where others try to download that movie. However, they remain at 0% and never download anything.
Almost feels like its something watching, logging connections to everyone connected to that torrent. Just a theory… No idea. (Privacy conscious)
Maybe someone can shed some light?


Are they from China/Chinese clients? A number of these are modified to never seed, so they always show as having 0%.
No, multiple different countries at random.