system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Eli5: How do peers and leechers in pirating on Utorrent work? Do any other site use them?
gpt
If you've copied someones homework at school, you are now also a point that someone else can copy homework from, as long as everyone who copies the homework copies it identically (this is done by hashing a torrent's content and checking it against the source) it doesn't matter who you copy from, so if there's a 100 people in the hallway u can copy homework from you can essentially copy the first answer of 1 guy then the next answer from a guy 10 feet down the hall later and when you bump into someone who needs one of the questions you have already copied he can copy from you.

If many people seed and few people leech then you can quickly find someone to copy from, if many people leech and few people seed then you'll be in a crowd and things will slow down.