u3zY8V8TiHY9szu6C84u wrote:... Which confirms your deduction that a single bad filehost (e.g. skyve.io) can poison (and potentially, depending on which PD links end users click on, re-poison) the PD cache (either that or users clicking on any PD link for the file (and downloading the truncated (defective) version of the file from the PD cache) defers clearing of that file from the PD cache?).
This is correct. If the PD finds a file in the cache with the same name as the one you're trying to download, even if its from a different filehost, the cached file will be served. This is why we always ask releasers to use good filenames, rather than something like book2.epub.