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If I were a memetic engineer in the pay of the rightsholders I'd probably try to coopt the term 'leech'. As it has connotations of parasitism and failure to con
by olefoo 17y ago
If I were a memetic engineer in the pay of the rightsholders I'd probably try to coopt the term 'leech'. As it has connotations of parasitism and failure to contribute; and it's already in use in the community for people who download but never upload (almost every bittorrent tracker will report the number of leechers and seeders).
- scotty79 17y agoIn bit-torrent terminology leechers do upload but they do not have whole file. Seeders have whole file which means that the keep being connected to torrent network despite the fact that they have no longer any selfish goal in this.