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Seeds vs Leechers Seeding and leeching are two activities that are connected with P2P file sharing via torrents. A seed is a complete copy of a file from which other users can download. A single torrent can have multiple seeds, allowing downloaders to obtain pieces from different sources and increasing total speed. Leechers have a mixed meaning as it was initially coined to describe people who only download but not upload, thereby impacting the overall speed of the network. Currently, the term leecher is also used to refer to people who do not yet have the complete file, regardless of the download/upload speeds; also referred to as peers. The number of seeds and leechers on a given torrent can affect the speed that you can get when downloading a file. A file that has just been put-up with only 1 seeder and thousands of leechers would have dismal speeds. After a few hours, some may already have finished downloading the file and has started to seed, thus improving the speed for eve