UTorrent and BitTorrent: Warning Possible insufficent Sources?

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HeyHeyAlex

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I keep getting this error. It never used to do it. And it only does it with certain torrents. Some of them download perfectly fine and others get to 94.5% and stop there. I have a Gateway Laptop, Windows 7 and I had BitTorrent before and now im using UTorrent. I also use Avast for virus protection. I don't think it's my virus protection thats the problem seeing as some torrents actually download fine. I've also downloaded multiple tv episodes from the same provider and they work fine and other from the same provider act all messed up. Anyone know how to fix this?
 
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JoelKatz

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The problem is not with you, it's with the rest of the world. If nobody is offering a particular piece of the file, there's no way you can get it. There's nothing you can do about it except keep trying to download those torrents. If anyone ever offers the missing chunk, you'll get it. But if nobody ever offers it, there's no way you can get it.

This is called the "rare blocks problem", and it's due to a design flaw in the torrent system. The solution to this problem (erasure coding) was discovered in the 1950s, but for some reason the torrent protocol doesn't implement the solution.
 
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