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if you mean the client's ip then the answer is NO! it's made especially for the guys that can't download torrents. well, the swarm, the peer connection and everything is implemented from scratch, i could do upload but i'm not

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Can you explain how it gets the content then?

TL;DR Asks for the packets in the torrent in order and sends them to the client, caching the location of the peers for future use

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How does it not get the ip?

Well, it's a torrent client that uses some specific trackers instead of using dht for the swarm, after he gets the peers he requests the packets in order that are send to a stream, that stream is sent to anyone that requests it.

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