A term describing someone who takes files from you or another network share, but never shares any of their files with anyone. For example, a leech or leecher is anyone participating in P2P or torrents who downloads all the files they want but never shares their files.

To help prevent leechers, some services may have a credit system that gives credits when someone uploads (shares) files and only allows people to download if they have enough credits.

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