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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>leech</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="leapfrog-attack.html" title="leapfrog attack"/><link rel="next" href="leech-mode.html" title="leech mode"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">leech</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leapfrog-attack.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leech-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="leech"/><dt xmlns="" id="leech"><b>leech</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> (Also <span class="firstterm">leecher</span>.) Among BBS types, crackers and
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<a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, one who consumes knowledge without
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generating new software, cracks, or techniques. BBS culture specifically
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defines a leech as someone who downloads files with few or no uploads in
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return, and who does not contribute to the message section. Cracker
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culture extends this definition to someone (a <a href="lamer.html"><i class="glossterm">lamer</i></a>,
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usually) who constantly presses informed sources for information and/or
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assistance, but has nothing to contribute. See
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<a href="../T/troughie.html"><i class="glossterm">troughie</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">v.</span> [common, Toronto area]
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v. To download a file across any kind of internet link. “<span class="quote">Hop on IRC
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later so I can leech some MP3s from you.</span>” Used to describe
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activities ranging from FTP, to IRC DCC-send, to ICQ file requests, to
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Napster searches (but never to downloading email with file attachments; the
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implication is that the download is the result of a browse or search of
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some sort of file server). Seems to be a holdover from the early 1990s
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when Toronto had a very active BBS and warez scene. Synonymous with
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<a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a> (sense 2), and contrast
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<a href="../S/snarf.html"><i class="glossterm">snarf</i></a> (sense 4).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="leapfrog-attack.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="leech-mode.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">leapfrog attack </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> leech mode</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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