What is a "torrent" for filesharing? Where can I get this? How can browse for safe downloadable files?

Question

I used Bearshare for the longest time but, it's making my PC act wierd. I heard "torrents" were the new thing for file sharing. What is it? Where can I get it? How can I browse files for downloading? Thank you for all responses.

Answer 1

Torrents are P2P files that people share.

Torrent Client: (Used to download Torrents)

http://www.bittorrent.com/

Torrent Website: (Where to download torrents)

http://thepiratebay.org/

Also may be needed: (For sure helps)

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Answer 2

I'd stay away from "torrents".  It's that file sharing that will get you in trouble with copyright!

Answer 3

Hi!

I am going to first start off saying, just to be good: "Don't download anything illegal with these torrents!".

With that said, a torrent is like a file that you download that connects you to a server to download a file. But you download it from peers. You must know about P2P, so I wont even try to explain.

To find a torrent, just Google "whatever you want torrent". Like a movie or something... "The mummy torrent" What you will get is a bunch of sites where you can download a torrent. But before you can do that, you need a good client. Vuze is my favorite, so I recommend it to you. Here's the link:

http://www.vuze.com/Index.html

One warning: Stay away from this site:

www.torrentz.com

They normally lead you somewhere that will give you virii and whatnot. Also, when downloading torrents, it is highly likely that there will be pornographic adds on the sites that torrents are on... Just a warning.

My favorite site to search for torrents is:

www.isohunt.com

Now, if you still have questions about torrents, check out this site: http://www.what-is-torrent.com/

Good luck,

Jesse

Answer 4

torrents are things you can get from websites that download by people uploading a specific file to you pc... i think?

Answer 5

Yes torrents are a big problem.

There almost always illegal.

well my blog has a step by step on

what to do with torrents.

You use them to download

games, movies and software.

I have three tutorials,

each on one

of those three categories.

*note*

But it is illgel!

http://duckmanyee.blogspot.com/2008_08_1...

Answer 6

Don't use bearshare lol...

Download a good torrent for beginners here:

http://fileforumz.com/downloads/files/77...

You need Yahoo Tools to download it coming from here, if you don't already have it.

Answer 7

http://gasparemrevista.blogspot.com/2008...

Answer 8

although i'm not going to tell you how i'll give you the tools.

install this

http://www.utorrent.com/

search here

http://torrentpond.com/

or just use google.

the program is the fastest. the help tab will walk you through it. read the comments on a torrent before you download.

also for tv shows

http://sharetv.org/

Answer 9

First you need a bittorrent client to open the torrent files.  This article discusses several of the clients and has setup guides for the suggested clients:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fre...

Then you go to a torrent search site to find the content you want.  This article discusses the popular torrent search sites and their features:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/...

Once you find the content you want, you download a small file (the torrent) associated with the content.  Then you open the torrent with your bittorrent client and the transfer of the content will begin:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/node/490