So it does.

For reference, the 3dbuzz.torrent file that I was talking about above that failed to verify some of the files has the following SHA256 hash sum:

346306376c94abbb140ff89b76c016eca1c2d6346b822266c2918bf50fcd45f5 3dbuzz.torrent

In the meanwhile between then and now, I also wrote out the following about which files were failing to verify. This additional information is largely useless now that they have switched to what I assume is a good torrent. But just in case someone downloaded the bad torrent (bad in the sense that it fails to verify for some of the files), I will post that information here anyway and then maybe someone will find this and learn that they should download a different torrent than the one that they used originally instead.

In particular, these are the files that failed to verify in the 3dbuzz.torrent file that 3dbuzz was initially hosting on its website:

3rd-person-character-system-part-03.zip (verification failed at 85.71% of 24.6 MB)
ai-programming-behavior-systems-part-01.zip (verification failed at 98.92% of 75.4 MB)
houdini-character-rigging-2-part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.45% of 291.2 MB)
houdini-director-volume-ii-part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.63% of 420.5 MB)
legacy-series-maya-part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.93% of 528.1 MB)
legacy-series-maya-part-02.zip (verification failed at 0.00% of 4 KB)
mastering-3dsmax-dragon-birthday-part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.33% of 565.5 MB)
mastering-maya-when-mechs-attack-part-04.zip (verification failed at 99.00% of 384.4 MB)
mathematics-algebra-part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.76% of 230.9 MB)
mathematics-part-01.zip (verification failed at 98.96% of 263.1 MB)
mathematics-trigonometry-part-01.zip (verification failed at 97.37% of 136.3 MB)
modern-javascript--part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.51% of 536.8 MB)
modern-javascript--part-02.zip (verification failed at 0.00% of 2 KB)
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.43% of 556.8 MB)
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-02.zip (verification failed at 99.56% of 564.5 MB)
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-03.zip (verification failed at 99.04% of 559 MB)
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-04.zip (verification failed at 37.85% of 5.6 MB)
unreal-development-kit-part-15.zip (verification failed at 99.44% of 357.6 MB)
unreal-tournament-2003-2004-part-01.zip (verification failed at 99.17% of 528.7 MB)
unreal-tournament-2003-2004-part-02.zip (verification failed at 99.69% of 546.9 MB)
unreal-tournament-2003-2004-part-03.zip (verification failed at 98.85% of 322 MB)

The fact that all of these failed to verify in their last few MB of data has me inclined to believe that the issue was with the checksums in the torrent file itself. In practice this likely means that all clients that try to download the whole of that torrent will never finish downloading everything 100% because the verification will always fail for them too. Can anyone confirm or deny that this is the case if they tried to download that torrent?

> The peer distributing a data file treats the file as a number of identically sized pieces, usually with byte sizes of a power of 2, and typically between 32 kB and 16 MB each. The peer creates a hash for each piece, using the SHA-1 hash function, and records it in the torrent file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Creating_and_publis...

Additionally, there are some duplicate files in that same 3dbuzz.torrent file:

ai-programming-behavior-systems-part-01.1.zip
houdini-director-volume-ii-part-01.1.zip
mathematics-algebra-part-01.1.zip
mathematics-trigonometry-part-01.1.zip
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-01.1.zip
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-02.1.zip
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-03.1.zip
modern-javascript-real-world-dev-part-04.1.zip
unreal-tournament-2003-2004-part-01.1.zip
unreal-tournament-2003-2004-part-02.1.zip
unreal-tournament-2003-2004-part-03.1.zip