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    The case of the disappearing torrent

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    • ben351500B Offline
      ben351500
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      (I posted this last week at the end of a long thread and got no response, so I thought I'd re-post as a new topic.)

      Hi. So I downloaded a torrent some time ago (10/16/16) and today I noticed that I was the only seeder. So I thought I'd take advantage of that and Freeleech it. I did so, paying around 150 seedpoints. After a little bit, I checked the Freeleech page and yup, there it was. After a few hours I checked uTorrent, and noticed that there had been zero action with the torrent. So I went back to the Freeleech page, and couldn't find it. I then did a search for the file, and couldn't find it.

      Aside from the seedpoints I spent on Freeleech-ing the file, I'm very curious to know what happened to the torrent. Here are the details, gleaned from uTorrent:

      Massaging Sam - File name: Sam.wmv Size: 807mb.

      Can anyone offer any insight?

      Thanks mucho!

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      • MrMazdaM Offline
        MrMazda Global Moderator
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        Torrents can disappear for a variety of reasons. The two most common of these are that it has been reported as a duplicate, or has been taken down in accordance with a valid DMCA request. Unfortunately, there is no way to determine what exactly happened to the torrent.

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        • ben351500B Offline
          ben351500
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          It's the timing that is so strange - as soon as I had the file freeleeched. It wasn't a duplicate, and for it to be DCMA'd within a few minutes after I freeleeched it would be an extraordinary coincidence. It was, literally, searchable one minute, then vanished the next. A well, this is life. Wish I could get my seedpoints back, but then again, it wasn't a lot of 'em.

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