Usenet NEWS vs. Bittorrent

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Sunday 06 July 2008 03:06:48 am Jeffrey Watts wrote:

> Also, those peers are sharing what _they have_ with other peers as
> well, so the seed doesn't really have to share all of what it has.  In
> practice it works very well.

The _original_ node must still send 100% of the file, though some of the 
receiving nodes may receive parts through various different peers.