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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Oh sweet a torrent file with a list of a bunch of other computers that have what I’m looking for.
Hey, file-holders, I’d like the file. Hey, while you’re at it, I can share whatever part of it I have with whoever is looking for it.
I know I don’t have the whole file yet and I’m just downloading it, so I’m leeching off the goodwill of others. But once I have the whole thing, I’ll seed it to whomever picks up that torrent file
Torrents can be fast on residential asymetrical ISP lines because even though people’s upload speeds are 1:50th your download speed, you can request from 50 different people.
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