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Isn’t piracy itself a form of leeching
by owjofwjeofm 1y ago
Isn’t piracy itself a form of leeching
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- lawlessone 1y ago>Isn’t piracy itself a form of leeching Actually i'm just collecting data to train an AI
- MurkyLabs 1y agowell officers I see nothing illegal being done here, case closed
- craftkiller 1y agoIn this context the word "leeching" has a specific meaning. In bittorrent, "leeching" is downloading, "seeding" is uploading. With a normal torrent client, every download has you starting as a leecher (downloader) and becoming a seeder (uploader), but this client skips that 2nd part.
- swinglock 1y agoA seeder is a peer which is serving a complete a set of all files. Peers which are not seeds also uploads, and this is not called seeding.
- craftkiller 1y agoYes, I didn't think that extra nuance would help in this situation. The person I replied to wasn't familiar with bittorrent terminology so adding in the complexity of whether or not you have the complete set of files is unnecessary for this discussion. But yes, you are correct and my statement was technically wrong/incomplete.