torrents

What are torrents, how do they work, and are they a good idea or to dangerous?

 

Well, the technical definition would be " A .torrent file is a small file containing the information necessary for your Bit Torrent client to download a larger file"

So basically, you download a torrent client (Sharezea, etc.) to search for .torrent files. When you find a holder of the file you want (a seeder), you simply download the .torrent just like you would any P2P program.

The difference between P2P and BitTorrent is BitTorrents do not require one central server, so it's harder to shut the whole network down. Because parts of files are downloaded in random order, users can download files from other users that only have a partial file (instead of downloading only from users with the complete file). This helps popular files to be distributed more quickly.

Hope this helps. I learned alot about this just from Google and trial and error...

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