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What are you talking about? Do you think the cappers are seeding the torrents themselves?

A lot things happen before you start leeching from tpb...

Bittorrent isn't used just on public sites; you can use the same technology to share between a very select group.

It's still true to this day. Real scene is still done with FXP and then leeched down the food chain to BT/NGz/p2p/etc...

Releases are out for hours before they even make it to open user levels.

Get it where it's hot, yo.

This is the upstream of the public bittorrent releases- and they still do lots of strange, unfashionably archaic stuff.