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kccqzyyesterday at 4:03 AM1 replyview on HN

All torrent clients must necessarily support partial downloads because of the nature of torrents. The files are split into pieces which are downloaded and then assembled by the torrent client.


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flexagoonyesterday at 7:48 PM

"Partial downloads" in the context of torrenting usually refers to downloading specific files from a torrent