Eli5 What does seeding a torrent mean?
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Torrents work by pulling parts of a file from one of the available sources, or “seeds”, X bytes at a time. The availabilty of those seeds may change while you’re downloading the file, but it doesn’t matter so long as there is at least one seed at all times. This is because a seed is a computer that already has a copy of the file downloaded and is offering to share that file with other computers on the network trying to download their own copy. The torrent downloader essentially just connects computers that want files (leechers) with other computers that already have them (seeds).
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