Basic BitTorrent Terms/Lingo
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Bittorrent terminology
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Seeder
Someone who has the complete file and lets others download it from him/her with Bittorrent, as soon as you finish downloading a torrent and leave the torrent going so people can download from you, you're a seeder too.
Leecher
Someone who is downloading a file but hasn't finished it yet.
Reseed
If someone seeds a torrent again after they had already finished and closed it earlier. This is done when a torrent has many leechers, but no seeder.
It's a great way to help out the community. It reactivates the torrent so to speak Others can now finish their download and then seed.
Tracker
An application run by a webmaster of a bittorrent site. It regulates the up and downloads of the torrents which use the tracker's announce url.
Announce url
The website address the tracker is using (ie. http://blablabla.no-ip.com:6969/announce), when you make a torrent, make sure you use the announce url of the site you want to upload your torrent to.
Peer
Someone who is uploading and/or downloading a torrent.
