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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Imagine asking someone to draw a picture of a dog.
In a typical direct download, someone has the picture of a dog, and they draw a copy of the dog for you and give it to you. The whole file is given to you.
Whereas in a torrent type of download, the files are broken into chunks. Imagine now after requesting it you have many people with a picture of the same dog, but one person draws the dog’s ears, one draws the face and snout, one draws the arms and the last person draws the legs and tail. The biggest advantage is rather than one person going through the work of drawing the whole picture, many people can work together to deliver your picture. After you receive a part of the dog picture, you are in turn able to copy down that part of the dog for someone else too.
Seeding means being available to copy the picture from (upload). Leeching means requesting parts of a picture from others (download).
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