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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lich" data-source="post: 838861" data-attributes="member: 6">being a leech or leecher refers to the practice of benefiting, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but not offering anything in return, or only token offerings in an attempt to avoid being called a leech. In economics this type of behaviour is called "Free riding" and is associated with the Free rider problem. For a very interesting discussion regarding the Free rider problem in the BitTorrent scene see the paper of Locher et all SeedersBitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor</blockquote>

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