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> By design, torrent participants both download AND upload at the same time.

That is, by definition, a leech. [1]

Seed: A downloader that obtains 100% of the data becomes a seed.

And here in this case, a while after someone becomes a seed the file gets deleted permanently.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_BitTorrent_terms

That's a weird definition. If you divide a large file in chunks of different sizes and you are sharing even 1% of them you are already seeding. And the point of popcorn time is that people are participating the p2p overlay much longer than with other p2p applications, thus seeding longer too.

I understand leechers as those who, over time, mostly download rather than upload.

>people are participating the p2p overlay much longer than with other p2p applications

What makes you say this?

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