Is torrenting a leecher or a seeder?

When torrenting, you will either be a leecher, or a seeder. You are a leecher when you are downloading files from peers on the network that already have the parts of the file on their device and are allowing people to download from them (you are “leeching” from them).

What is a torrent leecher?

Originally, leecher was used in a negative sense to describe people that refused to share their torrent files by using modified clients or severely limiting their uploading speed. Like the blood sucking worms that live in swamps, torrent leeches were also parasitic. Taking without giving anything back to the group.

What is a leecher in a torrent swarm?

The term "leech" refers to an individual computer on a torrent swarm that has an incomplete version of the torrent saved to its hard drive. The leecher is using the bandwidth contributed by the seeders to download their file. Peer. The word "peer" has two main meanings when its used to describe computers on torrent networks.