How do torrents work?

Question

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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Answer 1

Yeah it’s directly sharing *parts of files* from your PC. When you share the files with others, you are “seeding”. When you are asking for fileparts you don’t have, you’re “leeching”. It’s considered bad form to only leech and never seed.