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Originally posted by Dividend
FastTrack, on the other hand, just uploads a list of your files to a SuperNode or two, and once that's done you don't need any bandwidth to stay on.
I think that LimeWire should have done the Ultapeer system more similarly to this, as it would probably save the Ultrapeers a lot of bandwidth not relaying all those queries to their leaves.
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The developers considered that, but they saw some issues with privacy and legal problems for people running a supernode.