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Something like this happened to me once before. I sent a pm to the tracker staff to ask about it; they responded that a leecher had a borked client causing it to repeatedly download the torrent again. I suspect something like that is what is happening here.
I believe op is referring to Bakshi’s Fire and Ice, not martin’s books. The rest of your point still stands though.