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SOURCES and CLIENTS in µTorrent 2.2

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Alain -  
 Bernard -
Hello,

I know some people will roll their eyes, but who can claim to know everything?

Could someone (or a few) explain to me what a CLIENT and a SOURCE are and the meaning of the numbers inside and outside parentheses?

Or guide me to a website where all of this would be explained in detail.

Thank you for enlightening an ignorant person who wants to learn....

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Mstr Posted messages 12018 Registration date   Status Contributeur sécurité Last intervention   1 900
 
Hi,

The principle of P2P is legal (it's what we do with it that may not be), so I will try to explain simply.

Client (leecher): This is the number of people who are currently downloading this "torrent."

Source (seeder): This is the number of people who have finished downloading the file and are leaving it available for others to download themselves.

The first number is the total number, and the one in parentheses is the number of people you are connected to, I believe.

If it says Source: 450 (24), there are 450 people making it available, and 24 that you are downloading from.
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gui78120 Posted messages 214 Status Membre 128
 
Thank you!
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azaaza
 
it's the opposite
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Bernard
 
Thank you for the clarity of your information and for the friendly way you share it.
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Alain
 
Thank you for the "friendly" advice. Would you happen to be a member of this "venerable" organization?

Best regards
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Alain
 
Thank you to everyone who took the time to read and respond to me.

Thanks to you, I am a little less foolish than yesterday but even more than tomorrow...

I will certainly still need you...

Best regards
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tss
 
@drum75014: As mentioned earlier, peer-to-peer is legal. We can distribute free and public content through this means. For example, some subscription-based game publishers, like World of Warcraft, offer their game for download via torrent (However, to make it work, a subscription is required). There are many other perfectly legal applications of P2P. So THANK YOU for not wrongly accusing someone of piracy without any proof; wanting to understand how peer-to-peer works is not reprehensible in any way!
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drum75014 Posted messages 551 Status Membre 306
 
No, I am not a member of Hadopi. But what I can tell you is that one day I was summoned to the offices of the BEFTI located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris https://www.securiteinfo.com/legal/versquivousorienter.shtml for having downloaded and re-uploaded on a forum a software for which the publishing company had filed a complaint against me...
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Réponse 5 / 5
drum75014 Posted messages 551 Status Membre 306
 
Hello

What I can tell you is that it's a source of trouble because it's peer-to-peer, not to mention the potential viruses you can receive from the files you download and the added risk of receiving a letter from this authority
https://www.hadopi.fr/

Best regards
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