About BitTorrent

So my dad was asking me about BitTorrent the other day. I told him that it was this thingy on the internet that let you download other thingies from other places and that there were magical fairies in charge. 

But that didn't work. Why people don't accept the fact that things just mayyyybe might run on magic is beyond me.

So let's go over the fundamentals of BitTorrent, for those happy download addicts.

First things first, unlike Limewire or Kazaa, you have to find the files you want to download on your own. This isn't too hard, since there are plenty of good torrent sites out there for you to browse. By browsing for these files, you'll often find that they come in larger packages. Instead of finding one song, you'll find the whole albbum, or even the discography! Videos and games and other files also come in torrents.

So you find the torrent file and save it to your computer (or simply run it) and BitTorrent will ask you which files you want to download out of the torrent. For example, say you just want one song but all you can find is the album. No problem, BitTorrent asks you to check or uncheck the items in the torrent file so you only download what you want! (This works only if people didn't bundle it all up in a .zip or .rar file.)

After this it works a lot like Limewire. It basically downloads off other people's computers and the process, while not necessarily complicated, is a little boring to explain. This is just summing up how BitTorrent works.

I prefer BitTorrent because I'm a huge collector. I enjoy whole discographies instead of just one or two songs from an artist. 

Where can you find BitTorrent? Well, I guess for those who are too lazy to just Google it (when did Google become a verb, anyway?) I have made this wonderful link to the website.

And I'm great enough to include a good starter website for your downloading needs! Here you go!

Happy hunting, and be wary of the feds! Heh.