Freeleech Torrents... Explained.
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Freeleech torrents are a pretty simple affair, with a "reward" not so well defined, really…
If a member has spare bonus points (ie the member has a great ratio, and doesn't need to use the bonus points to trade in for upload credit, to improve his ratio) he can use the bonus points to make any torrent older than a week into a freeleech torrent.
Whoever is seeding that torrent, from that point on, would be earning upload credit, same as the normal situation.
While the torrent remains a freeleech torrent, downloading of that torrent does not count against a member's ratio (no download debit is applied, for that freeleech torrent).
After the freeleech period of the torrent expires, however, the {continued} download then counts against a member's ratio, just as normal.
I see this action of a member making a torrent freeleech more as a "gift", as I can't really see how to make this "cost effective", for a member, where they would earn as much upload credit, for making a torrent freeleech, as it "cost" to have made it freeleech, in the first place.
One possible exception to this might be... where you were the ONLY seeder of a certain torrent... and you decided to make it freeleech... then the torrent would become very popular very quickly, and as long as you happened to remain the sole seeder of that torrent... yes, you'd be earning ALL of the upload credit.
Hope this helps!
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