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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 2301045" data-attributes="member: 1874">Arrgh, I hate ignorant media / newspapers spreading disinformation. BitTorrent is NOT NOT NOT NOT some kind of "piracy tool". BitTorrent is NOT NOT NOT some kinda of new fancy Napster or Kazaa. NOT! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />BitTorrent is a way to distribute data. BitTorrent is not a program itself but a protocol, like http, ftp, smtp. To put it simple, BitTorrent is a set of rules that allow lots of computers to "talk" to each other to distribute files. If you download a file from a website, it's a one-to-one communication, the website sends you the file. If you however use BitTorrent to download the file, you use many-to-many communication and sends and recieves data to others downloading the file. You help distribute the file you download by uploading to others at the same time.Lets say we have a 1000 MB file lots of people want. 1000 MB is _alot_, a regular MP3-file is around 4-5 MB. Before BitTorrent, large files were usually hosted on websites. This was very expansive because all the people who wanted the file downloaded it from one single computer. With BitTorrent, you download chunks of the file from different locations, then other can download your chunks from you instead of the original host.An anology is the telephone kind. Lets say you want to tell your gaming group you cant play this friday. Instead of you calling all your 10 gaming buddies, you call 2 of them, and tell them to pass the message on. You dont have to do as much work if everyone helps a little. Thats BitTorrent.To use BitTorrent you need a bittorrent client, such as "ABC", or the official client (named "BitTorrent", which is confusing), or Azureus (spell?). To download a file using bittorrent you download a ".torrent"-file from a website, and then the bittorrent client will take care of the rest for you.--The whole TV / Movies thing you have heard about is just because BitTorrent is really good at distributing these kinds of files because they are large. BitTorrent is the best technology right now if you want to distribute (download/upload) large files, kinda like the german Autobahn is the best road if you want to drive fast. BitTorrent is not only used for these kind of files but also large programs such as Linux.Please tell everyone you know BitTorrent has nothing to do with piracy. Guns dont kill people, other people do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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