All about TORRENT & BitTorrent
What is BitTorrent?
Bit Torrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that is in mainstream use on the internet for distributing and sharing large amount of data like music, movies, music videos, games, softwares, ebooks, pdfs, video and audio tutorials and any other digital file.
What is Torrent?
Torrent means different things in different context, it can either mean a .torrent metadata file or all the files described by it. Sometime Torrent can also mean the website itself that hosts these torrents.
As a general internet user, whats the use of torrent or bittorrent for me?
Torrent or BitTorrent technologies is a boon for internet users and its among one of the most used service over the internet. Any internet user like you and me can use it to download gazillions of shared music, movies, games, ebooks, pdfs, tutorials, softwares or anything else available in digital format and shared by someone using BitTorrent technologies.
Because of its huge collection of torrents, best search functionality to search through this huge collection of torrents and most of all its very active and reliable userbase who keeps providing torrents for latest, high quality digital content. Because of its huge popularity it has also attracted a lot of controversy in recent years.
What is PirateBay, www.piratebay.org?
PirateBay accessaible at www.piratebay.org is one of the thousands of torrent hosting site available on the internet. PirateBay www.piratebay.org is the most popular torrent hosting service
Is it legal to download copyrighted digital content from internet using BitTorrent?
NO. It is not legal to downlaod copyrighted materials without the rights to own it.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
PirateBay isn’t bad but the downloads are kind of slow. I’ve been getting all my torrents from zoomtorrents.com. The search function works great and they have 1GB dedicated downloads!!!