Isn’t a torrent just, like…directly sharing a file from your PC? What’s all this business about “seeding” and “leeching”?
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Before torrenting, a user would enter a queue and wait for their turn to download a file from the server. You would wait in line, download the complete file and leave.
Torrenting was created for more efficient and faster downloads. Instead of the person at the head of the queue downloading the entire file while everyone behind them waits, they download a small part of the file, then share it with the three people in line behind them, who reshare it to everyone else.
Everyone is simultaneously downloading and uploading different parts of the file, until everyone in line has the complete file.
Seeding means that you are sharing the completed file with people, and leeching means that you are downloading the file.
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