What is BitTorrent?
How to Download??
BitTorrent (often abbreviated to 'BT')
is a protocol that allows you to download files quickly and efficiently. It is
a peer to peer protocol, which means you download and upload to other people
downloading the same file.
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BitTorrent is often used for distribution
of large files or popular content as it is a cheap, fast, efficient way to
distribute files to users like you. Just as there are multiple web
browsers, there are multiple BitTorrent clients, and µTorrent is the most
popular.
How do We download files using BitTorrent?
Just like you need a URL like
'www.google.com' to go to a web site and download content, you need a 'torrent
file', a small file that tells the BitTorrent client the necessary info to
download the content you want. This is generally obtained from a torrent
website. Many websites offer torrents as one method of downloading files.
Other sites, like legaltorrents.com ,
offer torrents of all kinds of things - these sites are just repositories of
torrents and usually don't actually create any of the content available. They
are known as torrent indexers. Once you've obtained a torrent file, you
simply need to load it into µTorrent.
There are several ways of doing this:
Choose to open or run it while
downloading in your browser.
Open the torrent file by double clicking
or drag-and-dropping onto the µTorrent window.
Where do We find files to download?
Most people use search engines, such as
Google, and add the term "torrent" to their search. BitTorrent can be
used to deliver any type of file. BitTorrent is purely a content distribution
method and (just like a web browser) does not incorporate any technology to
differentiate between content that is legitimately shared and content that is
pirated.
Remember, anybody can see your IP address when using peer to peer
clients (like µTorrent), which identifies your computer on the internet. Take
care to follow your country's laws concerning copyrighted content.
How do I know that someone isn't sending
out viruses on BitTorrent?
In short, you don't. You should treat
something downloaded with BitTorrent just like any file downloaded from the
internet - that is, if you don't trust the source of the file, then you should
use caution when opening it. If the torrent site you obtained it from offers
comments, be sure to read those first.
But regardless of the comments,
running a virus scan on the downloaded files is usually a good idea. µTorrent
guarantees that the content you download is not altered from when the torrent
was originally created, but if the source files used to create the torrent were
already infected, this will provide no protection!!
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