Glossary of BitTorrent terms


This is a glossary of jargon related to peer-to-peer file sharing via the BitTorrent protocol.

Terms

Availability

Choked

Client

Distributed Hash Table

Downloader

Endgame / Endgame mode

Fake

FreeLeech

Grab

Hash

Health

Hit-and-run

Index

Interested

Leech

Lurker

Magnet link

Overseeded

p2p

Peer

Piece

Ratio credit

Scraping

Seed / seeding

Share ratio

Snatch

Snubbing

Super-seeding

Swarm

Torrent

Tracker