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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It’s basically a decentralized way to store, transfer, and download files because the files are split into different parts which are duplicated across the whole network. All anyone needs to download the whole is just download one of each part (wherever they are) and put them together.
Ex: traditional file downloading works wholesale: file XYZ is on computer A and gets transferred to computer B.
Torrenting is basically a way of splitting up file XYZ into X, Y, and Z across computers A, B, and C, and then downloading them from wherever they happen to be to reassemble into XYZ.
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