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I'm not an expert in BitTorrent, but in my mental model, aren't you siphoning away seeders from the _official_ Ubuntu trackers by using burnbit?

I can appreciate using burnbit for certain behemoth companies that don't normally publish via torrent, but since ubuntu.com actually offers them along-side the isos, this smells counterproductive.




In this case yes. The torrent file from burnbit appears to list only the burnbit tracker.

A torrent file can list multiple trackers. It would make more sense for burnbit to take the official torrent and add their tracker to the list, allowing a client to make use of the peers listed by their tracker and the official tracker.

The offical torrent provides both IPv6 and IPv4 trackers, which is nice.


I think uTorrent does not even connect to web seeds unless there are low seeds/peers




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