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user-inactivated  ·  4192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cowards

Back when anyone used the eDonkey network, {e,a}Mule had settings to prefer chunks from the start of files, so in principal you could stream video from them. In practice you never got download rates fast enough to do it, so it was mostly just useful for making sure the episode of Firefly you were getting wasn't actually mislabeled CP.