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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sphyre" data-source="post: 4257560" data-attributes="member: 55424">From what I've heard from a friend, aside from all the different rumors on the internet, at least one of the downloads had the PHB with the "cut marks and color bars on the sides."  The other two books in the torrent seem to have been mid-res scanned, without having those crop marks and pixelated images.Since I've heard other claims on both the Wotc and enworld forums I think multiple different versions leaked all at the same time.Other people have mentioned that all it takes is one person anywhere along the line of from the wotc office all the way until after the files have been printed to steal them or one person getting their books early due to buy.com breaking the street date and scanning them in.  Both create an opportunity to make a pdf and torrent it.Torrenting is a method of file sharing.  Usually when you want to share something to a large number of people, if you have only one person who has it, it can cause severe slowdowns or even crashes on the person who is hosting when they get overloaded with requests to download the file.A torrent cuts up that file into small pieces and starts sharing that file with a few people who have requested the file.  Then those people, once they get the small segments, start sharing those with other people while requesting the ones they need.  It expands so that everyone is sharing off of each other and not putting a huge strain on the person who first hosted the file.  While it's overall slower for any one individual to download the file, it's overall faster for everyone to get it, along with being a lot more stable than trying to get it queued from a server.</blockquote>

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