What are torrents and how do u use them??

[Kirby]

What are torrents and how do u use them, and what can u use them to do???????

[nder]

Torrents are small files that point to big files that you can download using a client on the BitTorrent network. More to come. Was just racing Leoandru. I win!

[leoandru]

Torrents are meta info files that contains the information necessary to download a file from the bittorrent network. you can find the following nformation in a torrent

* length: length of the file in bytes (integer)
* md5sum: (optional) a 32-character hexadecimal string corresponding to the MD5 sum of the file.
* name: the filename of the file.
* piece length: number of bytes in each piece (integer)
* pieces: string consisting of the concatenation of all 20-byte SHA1 hash values, one per piece (bencoded raw binary string)

Also the torrent tells a bittorrent client where to find the tracker thats tracking the file.
The tracker as the name suggest tracks all the people currently seeding or downloading a file.

[Kirby]

Thanks now could u explain how to download and use them.

[leoandru]

First up. get a bittorrent client i would recommend Azureus. Then go to a website that offer torrents. for example you can get naruto torrents here http://a.scarywater.net/aone/. Download the torrent file then use the bittorrent client to open the torrent and it will do the rest for you.

[Virus]

@nder - How childish
Anyway like nder said they are small files bout 100kb the most.

So lets say you want a big file like Matrix trilogy, half life2..... you would search for the torrent file on a site like suprnova.org,torrentbits, torrentreactor etc... and after downloading the torrent, a client like bit torrent or bit comet would start the download.

[nder]

Hey Virus, where you been? Suprnova.org got busted by the RIAA And if you keep suggesting downloading stuff like the Matrix, then they might get you . Or worse yet, they might send the Twins!

[Virus]

I shouldn't be online then
jus joking... just giving an example. hear that kirby don't download them files i mentioned.
well if you download bitcomet it give you a list of sites where you can find torrents. Or you can use Torrent Web search.

felling lazy, Google for the link

[Kirby]

Thank u all very much i will try it out on something legal!! ang get back to u on it.

[Kirby]

torrents download slow