Saturday, November 18, 2006

Bit Torrent
I think I have a little time for a short one, so I shall introduce Bit Torrent to you.
Bit Torrent can be defined as the new generation of file sharing programs. Well let’s imagine this, you are distributing a file, the size is 5 GB. There are 10 users waiting to get the file. In normal circumstances, 10 people will connect to you, squeeze out every single possible bit of bandwidth from you and get your file. In total, you transferred 5 x 10 = 50 GB of data. Well, now with Bit Torrent, the procedure will change. All these 10 people connected to you, and begin downloading small chunks. Since not everyone has the same pieces of the chunks, as soon as some of those 10 people get a few of these chunks, they begin sending what they have to the others. So while people are downloading they are also helping to distribute the file to more users, which mean you do not transfer as much as 50 GB of data. The general idea is to tap the unutilized upload capacity of the person downloading from the distributor. Don’t understand? Forget it, is not important at all, just follow the instructions, and you should be fine.
First, download a BT client. I am using Bit Tornado. If you want something different, get it here. Download, install, bla bla bla. Don’t worry, no cracking no hacking, BT is a freeware. (make some donation if you want to)
Now, look for a site which provide BT link. My favorite is SUPRnova.org. There’s a few other like TvTorrents or DownloadAnime (for anime fan).

From there, click the link, the client will pop up and ask you where do you want to save the file, and from then on should be easy. Just remember that when you are downloading the file, you are also sharing it (that means others are downloading from you as well). DO a search in Yahoo or Google for other BT link sites. Leave a comment if you have any question.
Needless to say, most of the stuff that you can download from the BT links are ILLEGAL (mp3, T.V episode, movies, ISO, and etc). Copyright issue bla bla bla, you know the story. Happy downloading.

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