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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You’d like to buy a book. One option is to go to the bookstore and spend money on it (direct download) but you don’t want to do that.
So you talk to your friend Alberto. Alberto knows everyone, and has a long list of all the people who own this book and are willing to photocopy a page (seeders).
You send a letter to each person, asking for a specific page number (leeching).
They send a letter back with that specific page. Sometimes you are missing a page, or it’s unreadable. That’s ok, you have that list and you can just ask someone else!
Now you have all the pages of the book. Because everyone helped you, you now tell Alberto that you’re willing to help. You give him your address, and you start getting letters asking for pages (becoming a seeder).
That’s fine. You can enjoy your book and help others get pages too.
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