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Sanuk Canuk · 7th February 2008, 08:14

I am loving Torrents, just started with it this weekend and already have a few good movies. Also am rebuilding my music collection after I lost about 30gb of mp3's on my now defunct laptop harddrive.

Leeds

A seeder is someone who has the complete torrent file available for download, this ensures you can get the entire file. Peers/leechers are others who are downloading files, you can download from them also but they only have the portion of the file they have already downloaded.

Here is a little analogy you might like.

Say you have one good student in your class who actually did their work (the seeder). They have a complete copy of the answers. only 4 students can copy from one paper at a time so being the genious little cheaters they are, they set up a strategy. The lazy students (leachers) start to copy the original paper, but around them can fit 3 more students each who all begin to copy the answers off the leech but only the answers the leech has already copied. Those 3 additional students copying off of the leeches are now also leeching but not from the original (seeder), they are leeching off their fellow leechers who are copying off the seeder. This keeps branching out with eacch level of leecher beeing one question behind as they wait for the person ahead of them to copy the next question.

Once the leech becomes a copier and a provider of answers he is labled a peer instead of a leech. In this way you can see that the whole class can copy the exam much more quickly than by doing it in groups of 4. You can also see to that the volume of copying bandwidth is distributed throughout the whole assembly with copiers also being the source for other copiers. The entire group of delinquent students is refered to as the swarm...
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Oh the reason why it is important that there is atleast one seeder is that without atleast one seeder no one will ever get the complete copy since it is imposible for them to generate the 1 or 2 missing answers themselves (they are dumb bastard copiers after all).

7th February 2008, 08:14	#13 (permalink)
Sanuk Canuk Sanuk Canuk is..... Cunning Linguist Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Bangers Posts: 682 vCash: 500 Rep Power: 66	Re: I'm Useless With Torrents I am loving Torrents, just started with it this weekend and already have a few good movies. Also am rebuilding my music collection after I lost about 30gb of mp3's on my now defunct laptop harddrive. Leeds A seeder is someone who has the complete torrent file available for download, this ensures you can get the entire file. Peers/leechers are others who are downloading files, you can download from them also but they only have the portion of the file they have already downloaded. Here is a little analogy you might like. Say you have one good student in your class who actually did their work (the seeder). They have a complete copy of the answers. only 4 students can copy from one paper at a time so being the genious little cheaters they are, they set up a strategy. The lazy students (leachers) start to copy the original paper, but around them can fit 3 more students each who all begin to copy the answers off the leech but only the answers the leech has already copied. Those 3 additional students copying off of the leeches are now also leeching but not from the original (seeder), they are leeching off their fellow leechers who are copying off the seeder. This keeps branching out with eacch level of leecher beeing one question behind as they wait for the person ahead of them to copy the next question. Once the leech becomes a copier and a provider of answers he is labled a peer instead of a leech. In this way you can see that the whole class can copy the exam much more quickly than by doing it in groups of 4. You can also see to that the volume of copying bandwidth is distributed throughout the whole assembly with copiers also being the source for other copiers. The entire group of delinquent students is refered to as the swarm... ----- Oh the reason why it is important that there is atleast one seeder is that without atleast one seeder no one will ever get the complete copy since it is imposible for them to generate the 1 or 2 missing answers themselves (they are dumb bastard copiers after all). __________________ [Laying Plans] "It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected." Sun Tsu Last edited by Sanuk Canuk; 7th February 2008 at 08:16. Reason: Automerged Doublepost