The iso of Ubuntu 10.10 that I got at the meeting on Sunday must have
had some errors, or maybe the message saying copying the iso was
complete was in error (Ext4).  Anyway, when I burned the file, it
failed to boot all the way and opening the file showed there was no
way it took up 600+ Megs.

So, I decided to download a torrent of it and burn that.  Which I did,
and it contained Zero bytes inside a 630+ Meg file.  At first I
thought the CD burner might have failed, and burned another. No luck,
still zero bytes.  I decided to just burn a jpg to a cd to check it--
and that worked fine.

This leads me to a poser.  Does anyone know if it's possible to seed
errors via a torrent so that nothing gets transferred? I'm just not
sure what's going on here, whether it's deliberate error seeding or
just some random accident.

I know I did disconnect once.  Then I had to pause downloading for it
to continue again. And I suppose that could have been the cause.

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