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Pure Bullshit. In case of a system crash all data being downloaded at this time gets corrupted.

Wrong, you don't know what you're talking about. If you get corrupted data, it's user error on the part of the uploader, or something REALLY stupid on the part of the downloader. Any torrent client which conforms to spec will do its own error checking. See the bittorrent FAQ at http://www.bittorrent.com/FAQ.html:

How do I know the download isn't corrupted?

BitTorrent does cryptographic hashing (SHA1) of all data. When you see "Download succeeded!" you can be sure that BitTorrent has already verified the integrity of the data. The integrity and authenticity of a BitTorrent download is as good as the original request to the tracker. Checking the MD5/CRC32/other hash of a file downloaded via BitTorrent is redundant.

If you have a crash, just restart your torrent session, it will go through and validate all the data and re-download any blocks it finds corrupted. If you don't trust one particular client, run the torrent through one that you trust after downloading to prove it to yourself. Stop trying to scare people with lies, the torrent client isn't at fault with any problems you've had. Go read up on the protocol before you make yourself look like more of an idiot.

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Wednesday, January 04 2006 @ 04:27 AM PST