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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JoelKatz" data-source="post: 2675892" data-attributes="member: 232450">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.</blockquote>