Who has used bittorrent?

Jordan

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I want to know more about the program in laymans terms. I'm not very computer savy. I want to know how harmful it is, if there any precautions I can take if I do download it to reduce any virus risk etc etc
What if I downloaded it to my computer and then moved it to my backup... hard drive... I don't know if that was the right word, but then it would only be used off of my computer...?? I don't know
 
Go to piratebay.org or mininova.org and check out the comments of the things you download to make sure people are not having virus's with the files. Also always make sure you have antivirus.
 
If you're not computer savvy, you're going to end up with a hard drive full of viruses. I'd advise you not to use it. Anyone telling you differently is either lying to you, or very lucky.

Here's how it works:
You download a program like uTorrent. Next you go to a torrent site to find the file that you are looking for. Then you download the file from someone that has it. You don't know the person nor do you know if their computer is infected or if they are sending out malicious files. Not to mention, most of the files are illegal.
 
It can harm your computer if you do not know the right file to download. bittorrent is a thing which accesses other people's computer and downloads whatever you want it to.
 
Bittorrent is like any other P2P file sharing program. When you download a file, you're not downloading from a website/server, you're downloading from other people's computers.

When you download a torrent file, it just gives your computer information on where to download the file. The file is then downloaded from all the people who are seeding the file.

Seeding a file is when someone is done downloading a file, but they leave the file in their bittorrent program to seed. If everyone simply downloaded what they needed, then stopped their computers from uploading the file (seeding), then the idea of bittorrent falls apart.

if you took those files that you downloaded, you could no longer seed them unless you downloaded them to your other hard drive in the first place because your program is uploading the file from the location where you downloaded it to. So, if the file is moved, the program can't find the file to upload.

Also, if you're going to start using bittorrent, I'd recommend getting PeerGuardian. it blocks known bad ip addresses, in other words, bad people.
 
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