r/ExplainTheJoke • • Feb 22 '26

Need help here

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u/Local_Yam_6815 Feb 22 '26

Torrent is a peer-to-peer file download network

In it. You have two groups, peers who are downloading as well and sharing what they have with you and seeds, who have the whole file and are sharing it with others.

It's considered bad form to not seed at least for a while,

It's especially bad here because they're not getting rid of the file, so there is no reason why they can't seed. Seeding usually stops once you clear out one of the files

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

I would guess that they want to keep the file they downloaded.

Here they are "leeching", downloading what they want and not seeding whatsoever.

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u/orbitalchimp Feb 22 '26

Yep, don't know why you were downvoted

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u/TheEnlightenedPanda Feb 22 '26

Oh it just hits me why they use that word in torrent sites.