Bittorrent terminology

1. Seeder: The person who makes the torrent, uplodes it to a tracker and uploads the file with bittorrent to the downloaders. Or someone who has downloaded a file and is now only uploading that file, called seeding.



2. Leecher: A person who is downloading a file.



3. 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. Basically it keeps track of who has or needs a certain file, with that info the users bittorrent clients can connect to eachother and exhange data.



4. Reseed: If someone seeds a torrent again after they had already finished and closed it earlier. This is done when a torrent has leechers, but no seeder. It's a great way to help out the community. It reactivates the torrent so others can now finish their download and then seed.



5. Peers: Someone who is uploading and/or downloading a torrent (seeders and leechers).



6. Swarm: All the seeders and leechers on a torrent.



7. Announce url: The website address your bittorrent client uses to connect to a tracker in order to get peer data, when you make a torrent, make sure you use the announce url of the site you want to upload your torrent to.



8. Hit and run: Closing down your torrent immediatly after you finish your download, this is very selfish and can and will get you banned from many sites. Try to always seed to 1:1 ratio (upload as much MB as you have downloaded from a certain torrent) and keep uploading at least a few hours after you have completely finished downloading your file.



9. Torrent: Small text file that points to a certain tracker and a file hash for downloading with bittorrent.