What's happening in that .torrent is that its piece size is 1233338
bytes.  While this is technically allowed by the loosely-written
BitTorrent specification, it's *extremely* uncommon, and bad practice,
for a piece size to not be cleanly divisible by a larger power of 2
such as 16 KiB or 8 KiB.  The largest power of 2 that 1233338 bytes is
divisible by is 2 bytes.

If someone wants to submit a patch for libtransmission that handles
oddball pieces like this, I would accept it upstream.  However since
these oddball torrents are literally one in a million -- if that
common -- I wonder how many users would actually benefit from the time
spent in writing and testing such a patch.



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