what do u mean by torrent p2p?

Question

what is this p2p,torrent,there is a site torrentspy .com using his is leagle or illeagle

Answer 1

What is a torrent?
BitTorrent is a P2P (peer to peer) 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

As for sites:
Sure, how about i give them to you in their popularity rankings ;->

1MininovaEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.mininova.org/
2The Pirate BayEverythingNo Reg Required http://thepiratebay.org/
3myBittorrentEverythingNo Reg Required http://mybittorrent.com/
4TorrentzEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.torrentz.com/
5isoHuntAll - Search EngineNo Reg Required http://www.isohunt.com/
6TorrentSpyEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.torrentspy.com/
7NEWTorrentsEverythingNo Reg Required (dead)
8Snarf-itEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.snarf-it.org/
9TorrentBoxEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.torrentbox.com/torrents-brows...
10TorrentReactor.netEverything... Reg Required http://torrentreactor.net/
11Fulldls.comEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.fulldls.com/
12BushTorrentEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.bushtorrent.com/
13TorrentPortalEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.torrentportal.com/index.php.....
14NovaTinaEverythingNo Reg Required (dead)
15YotoshiTorrent Search EngineNo Reg Required http://www.yotoshi.com/
16FileSoupEverythingReg Required http://www.filesoup.co.uk/
17UKNovaUK TV EpisodesReg Required http://www.uknova.com/
18BT SitesTorrent Site IndexNo Reg Required http://www.btsites.tk/
19SeedlerEverythingNo Reg Required (dead)
20MeganovaEverythingNo Reg Required http://www.meganova.org/

Top 20 enough for you?

21Torrent MatrixEverythingRegistration Required
22NewNovaEverythingNo Reg Required
23TopTorrentsEverythingRegistr... Required
24HDBitsHigh Definition MoviesRegistration Required
25DemonoidEverythingRegistrati... Required
26TorrentReactor.comEverything... Reg Required
27Torrent LocomotiveEverythingNo Reg Required
28TUS KVCD GroupEverythingRegistration Required (+1 forum post)

Answer 2

What is BitTorrent?
BitTorrent is a protocol designed for transferring files. It is peer-to-peer in nature, as users connect to each other directly to send and receive portions of the file. However, there is a central server (called a tracker) which coordinates the action of all such peers. The tracker only manages connections, it does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed, and therefore a large number of users can be supported with relatively limited tracker bandwidth. The key philosophy of BitTorrent is that users should upload (transmit outbound) at the same time they are downloading (receiving inbound.) In this manner, network bandwidth is utilized as efficiently as possible. BitTorrent is designed to work better as the number of people interested in a certain file increases, in contrast to other file transfer protocols.

One analogy to describe this process might be to visualize a group of people sitting at a table. Each person at the table can both talk and listen to any other person at the table. These people are each trying to get a complete copy of a book. Person A announces that he has pages 1-10, 23, 42-50, and 75. Persons C, D, and E are each missing some of those pages that A has, and so they coordinate such that A gives them each copies of the pages he has that they are missing. Person B then announces that she has pages 11-22, 31-37, and 63-70. Persons A, D, and E tell B they would like some of her pages, so she gives them copies of the pages that she has. The process continues around the table until everyone has announced what they have (and hence what they are missing.) The people at the table coordinate to swap parts of this book until everyone has everything. There is also another person at the table, who we'll call 'S'. This person has a complete copy of the book, and so doesn't need anything sent to him. He responds with pages that no one else in the group has. At first, when everyone has just arrived, they all must talk to him to get their first set of pages. However, the people are smart enough to not all get the same pages from him. After a short while they all have most of the book amongst themselves, even if no one person has the whole thing. In this manner, this one person can share a book that he has with many other people, without having to give a full copy to everyone that's interested. He can instead give out different parts to different people, and they will be able to share it amongst themselves. This person who we've referred to as 'S' is called a seed in the terminology of BitTorrent. There's more about the various terms in a later section.

Answer 3

Bit Torrent is a popular P2P file sharing system. The BitTorrent network relies on Internet search engines that index files through metadata called torrents. Bit Torrent client software allows files to be downloaded and uploaded on P2P networks using a high-performance network protocol

p2p->Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking eliminates the need for central servers, allowing all computers to communicate and share resources as equals. Music file sharing, instant messaging and other popular network applications rely on P2P technology

Answer 4

BitTorrent.org
Home For Users For Developers
BitTorrent is a protocol for distributing files. It identifies content by URL and is designed to integrate seamlessly with the web. Its advantage over plain HTTP is that when multiple downloads of the same file happen concurrently, the downloaders upload to each other, making it possible for the file source to support very large numbers of downloaders with only a modest increase in its load.

Most of the popular public torrent tracker sites contained at least 99.95% illegal contents.

Answer 5

P2P means "peer to peer" or computer to cumputer. Torrents refer to a method of distributingfiles over a network using several simultaneous connections and segments of the file (go to bittorrent.com for a full explanation). Legal? Illegal? depends what you are sharing and where you live.

Answer 6

Its a file sharing application...More info can be found in the below link