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How to: Torrent
By: Red Date: November 1, 2013, 1:02 am
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Torrenting is not illegal, nowadays anyone from individual
distributors to commercial companies use torrenting to share
files with millions of people without having to spend the
gigantic sum of money that normally accompanies FTP servers.
1. What is Torrenting?
Torrenting is a form of downloading content on the internet from
peers around the world. It holds many logistical advantages over
traditional downloading - where one server is responsible for
multiple connections - like faster, possibly safer, and
decentralized downloading. With torrenting, you become a part of
the file sharing experience, ye? It's about helping others and
spreading utility and enjoyment throughout the web.
2. How does it work?
There are three main elements that go into torrenting:
- The client
- The torrent file
- People
The client is a program you download that does all the hard work
for you and helps keep your torrents organized. Popular torrent
clients include BitTorrent and µTorrent (micro torrent,
sometimes called uTorrent). More on these later.
The torrent file is like a map that tells the client where to
download files from. It contains something known as "trackers"
that are addresses for different hubs for downloading.
Finally, the most important element in torrent is you. Without
people, torrenting wouldn't be efficient or probably even
possible. Trackers on torrent files have lists of "seeders" and
"leechers". A seeder is a person who has completed the download
and has the file on their computer or at least locally
accessible to them. Leechers are people who are downloading the
same file as you currently. When you download a torrent file and
it plugs into your client, it will automatically start
attempting to connect to seeders and leechers to gather the
information of the file you want. It will commonly connect to
quite a few of each. When you connect to a seed, you're
downloading the file directly from them. When you connect to a
leech, they're downloading what you have of the file, but not
taking it away from you, they're copying it.
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Torrent files are NOT actually the file you want to download.
Say I want to download this cool game that some independent
developer released for free as a torrent. I will download the
torrent file and it will pop up in my client and start
connecting to the trackers, which in turn connects me to the
seeder and leechers. There are 49 available seeders on his
tracker, and 3 leeches. I connect to 12 seeders and one of the
leechers periodically connects to me, copying what I get of the
file. It connects to multiple seeders because other people can
limit their bandwidth, or how much data they let in and out of
their computer. Sometimes when someone has too much bandwidth
being used, their internet slows down a ton and they can't
complete mundane tasks like watching youtube or something. You
can throttle your bandwidth too, but I won't explain that in
this guide. Moving on, eventually my game finishes downloading
and the torrent starts seeding automatically for other leechers
to copy. Seeders are fairly valuable in the torrenting world,
more on seeding etiquette another time. To stop seeding, select
the torrent and click the "stop" button somewhere on your
client. When you first start, you can be justified by not
seeding if you're downloading files with 100+ seeders already
and less than 100 leechers.
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3. Things to know
- Torrent files themselves typically only take about 2 to 60
kilobytes (KB) of space.
- Torrent files end in ".torrent" and should NOT end in .rar,
.zip, or .exe! Make sure you're downloading the right file!
- Not all torrents are benevolent. Some people throw bad
torrents online that can contain viruses and other bad bugs. If
possible, read the comments on the website you're downloading
the torrent from!
4. Further Resources
CLIENTS:
uTorrent -
HTML http://www.utorrent.com/
BitTorrent -
HTML http://www.bittorrent.com/
ANIME TORRENTS:
NyaaTorrents -
HTML http://www.nyaa.se/
(look up "horriblesubs")
OTHER TORRENTS (Adobe stuff, Microsoft office, Music)
TPB -
HTML http://thepiratebay.sx/
(may be down)
NOTE: Other torrent sites can be useful, but I can't make a
comprehensive list of things I've tried. If you're looking
desperately for a file and can't find it, look up the file with
"torrent" after it on google. Be extremely careful though, and
cancel any downloads of .exe instead of .torrent
5. Troubleshooting
If for any reason you are having trouble, such as connecting to
trackers and the like, look up a guide on how to "port forward"
bittorrent.
TALK WITH YOUR PARENTS ABOUT WHAT KIND OF INTERNET SERVICE YOU
HAVE!!!! <------ I can't stress this enough if you don't know.
Make sure you know if you have a bandwidth limit each month,
because if so, torrenting might not be right for you without
some major tweaks to your client that I can't possibly write a
comprehensive guide for, but I can help you out if you're stuck.
Any further problems, talk with me or a friend, or look up the
problem on google and solve it yourself.
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I'm also not responsible for any illegal files that are
downloaded through your torrenting brigades. If you really need
a copy of photoshop that badly, talk with me first, or go ahead
and download, but I'm not guaranteeing your online safety
between the feds and stuff. Piracy is illegal, whether we like
it or not, but as a hint, so many people torrent that an illegal
file with 1000 seeders is going to be safer than one with 12, if
you catch my drift. They aren't going to go out and black bag
all 1000. (just a couple big ones) My best advice: DO YOUR OWN
RESEARCH TO FIND OUT IF TORRENTING IS RIGHT FOR YOU. THIS IS
ONLY A HOW-TO, NOT A MORAL COMPASS.
More advice: Files shared on a flashdrive will theoretically be
safer than torrenting a/another copy.
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