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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where does the storage for torrents come from?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Torrents are peer to peer. The storage comes exclusively from seeders. If nobody is seeding a torrent, and nobody has the data, it is dead and the data no longer exists.