Bit Torrents
If you’ve ever tried to move a huge file through email you know what a huge pain it can be. Most email programs might let you exchange a photo or two by email but anything bigger gets rejected. So how do you move those huge files like movies, videos or presentations? Bit Torrents that’s how. Bit Torrent is not a program it’s a method of transferring huge files using a peer-to-peer file sharing system. Much of the Bit Torrent traffic is the illegal sharing of copyright protected materials but there is lots of legal and interesting public domain stuff out there too from episodes of your favourite TV Shows to educational how to videos. Bit Torrents are different from Napster, Limewire and Kazaa file sharing software you may have seen before. Bit Torrents download bits of the program you want from a multitude of hosts not one. It breaks down the file into a multitude of packets and grabs packets of data from whoever has them. Even as you download a file parts of your new file are being sha...