What do the terms leech, seed, and snatch mean?
These terms are all torrent-specific terms which refer to concepts you no doubt already understand. • A leech or leecher is a term referring to a person who is currently in the process of receiving torrent data from others in the community (or swarm). Note that people who have stopped downloading and are just uploading what they have are termed as leechers as well. Leechers listed as active are those that are trying to download, while the remainder are seeding what they’ve got so far. Active leechers are those in brackets, while the number outside the brackets is the total number of leechers. • A seed or seeder refers to a person who has completely downloaded all of the torrent data for a particular torrent from the community (or swarm), but continues to remain online to share that data with others. • A snatch is the event which is recorded when a person has fully downloaded a torrent’s data. In other words, when you convert from a leecher to a seeder, then you have snatched the torren
