what is a torrent and how do they work?

Answer 1

A torrent is a small file that serves as a tracker for a torrented file. When downloaded, it is opened by a bittorrent client, which uses the tracker to find other users with and looking for the file.

There are three basic types of users: seeds, users, and leeches. Seeds have the complete file and are uploading it to other users. Users are downloading it but sharing their upload with others. Leeches are downloading without uploading; this doesn't work well for reasons I'll explain below.

Now, the basic premise of Bittorrent is you give, you get. When you first join in, your the new kid in school and everybody gives you a bit for free. Then your expected to contribute as much as you can to others. If you don't share your knowledge (data) with others that need it, they won't share theirs with you. Basically, torrents are quick because they just about require everyone to share. When everyone shares, all the stress isn't on when server, it's shared among the downloaders. Everyone wins.

So, why is Bittorrent so popular? Well, pretty much the reason I mentioned above; speed. Downloading the latest movie (illegal) or Linux CD (much less common but legal) would take a very long time on a stressed, easily taken down server. Bittorrent is much more reliable and quick, so both the tracker hosts and downloaders win.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

A torrent is a file that contains information for downloading a large file, such as a movie or music file, from the Internet. The torrent file itself does not contain the movie or music. It allows you to pull the file in small sections from multiple computers at the same time, making it faster than downloading from a single source. At the sametime, you are also sharing out the segments you have downloaded to others to copy.

To use a torrent file you will need a program since as Bit Torrent (free download). You go to a torrent site (such as torrentspy.com) and download torrent files from there.

Be aware that much of the material shared through torrent files is copyrighted material, and downloading the material could result in a lawsuit against you.

Answer 3

Torrent is a small file that contains url of its server and info of its peers and seeds..

Once you download torrent, Just open it with your Torrent celint.
You can download a celint form
http://www.utorrent.com/
It contains search engine for searching working Torrents.

If you wanna make torrent you should have server program of it.
then you can make torrent file and you can upload it to any site..