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| What is a torrent tracker? |
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| It is a website that hosts and organizes .torrent files. |
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| Instead of hosting any actual program or media file, what does a torrent tracker actually host? |
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| A tracker hosts .torrent files, which are small coded text files. |
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| What is a public torrent tracker? |
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| A public torrent tracker allows anyone to download torrent files. |
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| What is a private torrent tracker? |
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| It is a torrent tracker that requires the downloader to be invited by someone who is already a member of the torrent tracker. |
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| Why do people go through the trouble of getting invited to a private tracker, when they can just use public trackers? |
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| Because if you are concerned about security, then public trackers aren't a good choice. Also, private trackers are often faster. |
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| What is a torrent client? |
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| A torrent client is the program that reads the information contained a .torrent file, and connects users from all over the world to exchange data. |
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| Are there different torrent clients? |
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| There are, and there are a variety of different features for each. |
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| An uploader is the person who creates the initial .torrent file based on information located on their own computer's hard drive. |
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| It basically means sharing or uploading. |
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| Who seeds in the process of torrenting? |
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| The uploader of the torrent seeds with anyone who wishes to download their torrent. Anyone who downloads the torrent will automatically seed other people from their copy of the torrent, unless they choose settings in their client to specifically not do so. |
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| Leeching means the same thing as downloading, and it is when someone is attempting to get the information from the seeders. |
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| Why is the act of downloading called leeching, when it sounds like a very negative thing? |
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| It is intended to sound that way so as to remind people that it is selfish in of itsself to download information from other people, but one can balance out what they leech by seeding other people. |
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| A peer is anyone that is not the initial uploader and is actively transferring information. |
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| You download a .torrent file from a tracker into a client, and the client downloads the information until completion. |
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