by Patrick Burke (FA|MegamanEXE) June 29, 2004
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.
by Mike Gowland July 19, 2004
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 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.
I know a leecher who in order to acheive maximum network thourough-output restricts uploading while bittorrenting.
by Indrid Cold August 09, 2004
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.
{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> -_-
{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> -_-
by The Real Shade April 19, 2006
by xSmurf June 20, 2004
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)
leeching is especially harmfull to the bittorrent network (sucking all the bandwith away)
by Superdude November 23, 2004
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
Someone whose abilities are usually not so good, and keeps exploiting someone else's effort without any Care-To-Share his code
by ZheCk April 17, 2007