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ben0x539 on Jan 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents

There isn't really a reason the piratebay web interface couldn't display that info for you anyway.

sp332 on Jan 13, 2012 [–]

If users only upload the magnet file, the TPB wouldn't even know how big the file is, unless their servers queried the DHT for the .torrent file and extracted the data.

tdoggette on Jan 13, 2012 | [–]

Right, that's what they'd have to do.

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