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one explanation might be that the posts were deleted because piracy isn't tolerated on those forums

The posts did not discuss piracy, only in-game dynamics. That's the point.

The author also literally made up the lie that ONE minute after adding his torrent, look at all these pirates, this is a screenshot ONE minute after adding the torrent!

Screenshots show torrent added a day ago.

Also, it's neither here nor there but I personally would have linked to the posts in question in the write-up. However this is a matter of style and I don't hold it against the author.

You can add a torrent to the client without seeding it; I tested this myself [1]. I could see the author preparing the torrents ahead of time before uploading the torrent files and starting to seed them. At that point the client would still indicate when he added the torrent.

1: http://i.imgur.com/i0vGOm0.png

I think they just added their own torrent-file in utorrent right after they created it, but didn't upload it to a tracker until the day after?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor

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