what do u mean by torrent?

Answer 1

What is a torrent?
BitTorrent is a P2P system that makes transfering large files (or groups of files) amongst a large group of people easy, fast and efficient.

How does it work?
BitTorrent is a P2P system that uses a central location to manage users' downloads. The central location is a tracker that is connected to when you download and launch a .torrent file. The tracker keeps track of all the people who have the file (both partially and completely) and connects users to each other for downloading and uploading. The BitTorrent network is impressive mostly for the speed and reliability with which you get files that have been recently released. As long as a .torrent file has enough people sharing then you can be assured that it will start quickly and maintain a good download speed. This is what makes browsing through recently released .torrents so much fun. Whatever catches your eye can be yours in no time. Most indexing sites have a system of listing the number of Seeders and Leechers for a particular archive

Are they safe?
Usually it's just the tracker that gets shut down, but lets just say, they are safe until they are not safe :-Þ

How can I use it?
To download something with BitTorrent, you must have a .torrent file. This file contains in it a location that tells the BitTorrent client where to go to find the tracker that manages the uploading and downloading of the archive. An archive is a complete set for downloading which may include one file or many files. The one .torrent file contains the archive information also. To download on this network it is simply a matter of clicking on the .torrent file in your web browser, then the BitTorrent client kicks in and asks where you'd like to save the archive. That's it, from there you just sit back and watch the client work it's magic.

URL?
further information and the application to use torrents can be found here: http://www.slyck.com/bt.php

Answer 2

A torrent is a file specifically with .torrent extension, it's used by torrent clients such as bit torrents to download other files whose location is given inside that torrent file and is resolved by the torrent client.

Answer 3

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer report sharing protocol used for dispensing fairly a lot of documents. BitTorrent is between the most person-pleasant protocols for shifting tremendous information, and that's been anticipated that it debts for approximately 27-55% of all internet site visitors (searching on geographical area) as of February 2009.

Answer 4

kinda like p2p but not centralized.