Definitions

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  • noun Someone who downloads files from the Internet.
  • noun A computer program which aids the downloading of files.

Etymologies

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download +‎ -er

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Examples

  • While im sure the downloader is also uploading at the same time (bittorrent needs to upload in order to download unless youre a total leech and rig it) the whole point is that the game information your sending should be treated the same way as any bootleg (btw NOT all bittorrent files are bootleg, bittorrent is commonly used to move huge legitimate files across since its so efficient.) youre both paying, just because you consider your game to be of more importance doesnt make it so.

    Comcast: We Need to Play Internet Traffic Cop - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Pamela Samuelson, one of America's leading copyright scholars, has published a working paper arguing that the DoJ's and RIAA's theory for calculating damages in downloader lawsuits is flawed:

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Leading copyright scholar says DoJ gets it wrong in downloader lawsuits

    Boing Boing 2009

  • ComicZeal's built-in downloader lets you browse our great collection of copyright-free Golden Age comics and download them straight to your iPhone or iPod Touch.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • They estimate $2million a week loss, but this presumes that every downloader is a lost customer, which is stupid.

    Sorry to hear that. « Imaginary Potential 2008

  • And just to make things easier, I wrote a free ebook reader for Windows which has a built-in downloader for the whole Gutenberg catalog.

    Free Golden Age Science Fiction 2006

  • (One of the reasons most of us think the evidence extracted by MediaSentry should never have been accepted to prosecute an individual downloader is because it never contains the REPEATED instances of that one user in question.

    MediaSentry Super-Secret Squirrel tech 2009

  • WebRipper is a free Internet scanner and downloader, which is easy to use, yet powerful and fast.

    Crossword Puzzle – Tuesday « Climate Audit 2007

  • A Trojan is any program that pretends to be something other than what it really is - a downloader is a program that downloads another program.

    Livescience.com 2010

  • A Trojan is any program that pretends to be something other than what it really is - a downloader is a program that downloads another program.

    Signs of the Times 2010

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