I should mention that bittorrent-gui, when the same process is attempted immediately claims 100% completion, and creates an empty text file for debian-testing-amd64-binary-2.iso. I obtained the file from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/bt-cd/ .
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