Sidi and feasts - this is you and me in a torrent

Every day Internet users become more and more advanced. Many begin to study and master the information that until recently seemed inaccessible and completely incomprehensible (confusing, complex). A number of users are interested in what is the ciders and feasts. This makes me happy. And in this article, we will try to answer this question as clearly as possible. But first you should explain where these terms come from and where they are applied.

Once, one very smart person, whose name is Bram Cohen, came up with a peer-to-peer network protocol (or BitTorrent) so that we could exchange files over the Internet with you. And, even those that are in closed access, are paid or not at all went on a mass rental (for example, movies, serials). Today, torrents are insanely popular, and there are several reasons for that. The two main ones are freedom of information exchange and the ability to download almost anything. The source of these files are people, recipients, of course, too. So, if you have something interesting to other users (author's work, code to some paid software, game, new movie), then you do not upload it to the server, but pass it directly to them. They, in turn, also become sources and distributors of this information, sharing it with others. Thus, a complex network of file interchange is created. Now about how to all this belong to the sidi and feasts. This, in general, there are participants in this "web".

Torrent works with a special site-server, which is called "tracker." It is there that you spread the information you have (the file), thus becoming its distributor. In this case, you are "sid". And what is a feast in a torrent? These are the ones who "consume" your information and transfer it to others, that is, after the download does not delete or change the file. There are still some people in this "web". They are often called "leeches". In fact, it's lychee. Their understanding in the process of "evolution" has changed. Previously, those were considered to be those who are in the process of downloading the file, that is, they do not have all of it at the moment. Today, these are less pleasant personalities, namely, unscrupulous feasts. They only "consume" information, but do not share it, but delete or put the so-called prohibition on distribution. They are actively struggling with them, for example, introducing a rating system, etc. Why do this?

The fact is that the speed of downloading files directly depends on the number of distributing participants. So, sidi and feasts are those who increase it, and lychees are those who reduce it. Therefore, if you do not want to be a "parasite" and eventually accumulate a negative rating, then try to distribute as much as you download. When you search for some information in the torrent, it searches for the peers that distribute it. The more of them, the faster you will find and download the desired file.

By the way, you need to clarify why the exchange is called peer-to-peer, rather than seeder-to-peer. In this case, it is understood that the message occurs between peers. But to clarify who is the source of the file introduced the concept of "sidy." That is, a feast is a generalized definition of those who download information and those who download it. Each of us can be both of them at the same time. This is the basis of the principle of equality.