Category: Geeks r Us
Please excuse my ignorance, but I'm wondering what, and how to make use of torrents? Can one download music/movies for little to no cost? Can someone please explain this to my tiny brain?
A torrent is a file that you can download and open with a torrent client. Basically it tells the client about a tracker website, and you get your uploads from other people that have downloaded the file and are now uploading it. It's basically a whole bunch of people sharing a file. Though torrents have gotten a bit of a slighted reputation due to lots of illegal things being shared with them (sidenote, please keep such talk about getting illegal content from the boards), there are several places that use torrents for perfectly legal legitimate sharing. As I recall there're several linux distrubutions that are torrented from their sites (just for one example.)
Torrents are, functionally speaking, a brilliant idea. Instead of having to load all the contents on one server the server simply facilitates the sharing of such files from all the users who connect to it.
In other words, if it were a clothing store, instead of piling up warehouses full of clothes they simply keep information about people who want to sell and those who want to buy and bring the two together.
If you use a torrent client such as MuTorrent e.g. can be downloaded from www.filehippo.com you can search for a torrent on a web site such as www.mininova.org or www.piratebay.org and then download the content. Certainly there is copyrighted material to be found at these sites and I am in no way encouraging the downloading of such material but these sites alsohave a lot of legal torrents and what you do once you've opened those web pages is entirely up to you.
cheers
-B
where can one find torrents? I think it might help if this were explained to me on an indivicual basis. I'm looking for a specific album, and am not able to find it. Again, sorry for my lack of technological knowledge.
www.mininova.org. thepiratebay.com, are two pretty good places to get them. U can also use google, and type in allinurl: torrent name of the album and hit enter and see what it brings back.
I love using both those sites.