Leechers
It refers to the act of giving yet providing nothing of substance in return, as it is named after the parasitic organism a leech.
Leecher can be applied practially to peer to peer file sharing protocols, or networks (Bittorrent, Kazza
Fast Track,
Gnutella}, in which the
leecher consumes bandwidth by downloading, yet has no will to upload or give back to a community. Particularly in Bittorrent, leechers are not actually increasing their performance, but possibly are decreasing it.
leecher
by The Real Shade on Apr 19, 2006 09:03:22
A
leecher is a person on some type of internet community (torrent, forums, ect.) who downloads as they please and never contributes back to that community. Often characterized by low post counts or having nothing in their shared folder.
Leechers steal a
network's bandwidth with downloads and potentially can cause it to lag. Derived (obviously) from the parasite with many similarities to a
Leecher.
Example:
{18:43} <&Shade>
Aero, click the members link in the forums!
{18:
44} <&Aeroadm> Why?
{18:44} <&Shade> I did the math, only 3% of the members have posted more than 10 times!
{18:44} <&Aeroadm>
leechers....
{18:44} <&Shade> Yea, yo
DL! Delete those SOB leechers!
{18:45} <~Dark_Llama>Wha? Nah man, They boost the member counts :P
{18:45} <&Shade> -_-
{18:45} <&Aeroadm> -_-
leecher
by xSmurf on Jun 20, 2004 13:20:27
leecher
by Superdude on Nov 24, 2004 05:17:11
Leeching is when you download via a torrent or any other
intarweb shareprogram, without giving any upload back.
leeching is especially harmfull to the bittorrent network (sucking all the
bandwith away)
leecher
by ZheCk on Apr 18, 2007 04:06:26
Someone who acts so cool like a
programmer, but is indeed just using his Copy-And-Paste ability, taking code from
the Web without helping others. If he can't finish something on his own, he'll begin spamming all forums for an answer... and then will release his "own" application.
Someone whose abilities are usually not so good, and keeps
exploiting someone else's effort without any Care-To-Share his code
leecher
by MIKEYW on Oct 04, 2006 04:02:53
noun; unwanted friend who
leeches all of your other friends. when one friend has a good
catch-phrase or joke the leecher jumps
all over it and takes it for himself/herself.
leecher
by watts9111 on Aug 01, 2008 09:15:11
Leecher
by Patrick Burke (FA|MegamanEXE) on Jun 30, 2004 06:15:07
Example:
OMFG LOLXORS WHEN IS
WWP COMINGS OUT WEITH
DE NEXT EPISODEDD OF AXXESS LOL WTFXORs!
leechers
by g3nocid on Apr 27, 2007 01:30:38
annoying assholes that leech everything...
like to brag around for their knowledge..usually recognized by their annoying questions like: giv meh teh hax plz plz plz!!111!!!!
oneone!!!eleven!!11 u faking asshole give meh teh
hackz i hax u, if u dont giv meh
teh hax!!!1
Example:
leechers noob
haxorz:
= virus the one that infects and crash and destroy ur komputer
i infected ur computer! hah u beotch! now i stronger then you!
mike: get a life...stop being addictive to google
Leecher
by Mike Gowland on Jul 20, 2004 07:06:49
A
leecher is someone who attends a
LAN Party and downloads files from fellow friends. Nothing wrong with it. Just it can cause unwanted
LAG while in games.