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Wasn't one of the major advantages of torrents the fact you could interrupt a download without loosing the partial data?
I think the major advantage was pulling from multiple sources instead of just one other asshole on dialup. I think all the way back to Napster and even http download managers at that time could resume downloads if you lost connection