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Leech (computing)

Known as: Leeching (computing), Bandwidth leeching, Leech (disambiguation) 
In computing and specifically Internet, a leech is one who benefits, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but does not offer… 
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Public and private BitTorrent communities: a measurement study
BitTorrent communities, both public and private, are immensely popular in the Internet, with tens of millions of users… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Free-riding in BitTorrent Networks with the Large View Exploit
This paper presents an experimental study on the behavior of BitTorrent networks when selfish peers attempt to maintain high… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Analyzing and Improving a BitTorrent Networks Performance Mechanisms
In recent years, BitTorrent has emerged as a very scalable peer-to-peer file distribution mechanism. While early measurement and… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
BiToS: Enhancing BitTorrent for Supporting Streaming Applications
BitTorrent (BT) in the last years has been one of the most effective mechanisms for P2P content distribution. Although BT was… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Picking Virtual Pockets using Relay Attacks on Contactless Smartcard
A contactless smartcard is a smartcard that can communicate with other devices without any physical connection, using Radio… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance
In recent years, BitTorrent has emerged as a very popular and scalable peer-to-peer file distribution mechanism. It has been… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Public Opinion Surveys and the Formation of Privacy Policy
The laws that condition the boundaries that separate the public from the private spheres shape our expectations of privacy… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Explaining cross-cultural pragmatic findings: moving from politeness maxims to sociopragmatic interactional principles (SIPs)
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The computer learner corpus: a versatile new source of data for SLA research
Since making its first appearance in the 1960s, the computer corpus has infiltrated all fields of language-related research, from… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Neurobiology of the Leech
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