Acronym for porn
torrent syndrome; refers to the tendency for the download speeds of pornographic video torrents to slow down immensely when the download is almost finished.
The reason for this is a cyclical phenomenon: When people download these kinds of videos, they often watch them when they are only 90-95% complete (whenever the final orgasm occurs), because the remaining 5-10% takes so long and they don't want to wait. But since they watch it and it is "used up" before the download is complete, they then delete the video. Therefore, the internet is full of
transient peers that only have the incomplete file for a temporary time, making it almost impossible to download the entire video. This is comparable to waiting for a few
moles of a radioactive substance with
half-life of 3 days to fully
decompose - which, theoretically, never happens.
Example:
Jill really wanted to see the final 3 minutes of a lesbian fisting video she was previewing, but her
torrent client was giving an
estimate of 3 years, 23 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, 11 seconds until the
download would complete. "Damn this PTS" she thought to her horny self.