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Technology How to Download Videos with Bittorrent
| How to Download Videos with Bittorrent |
| Written by Martin Style |
Now that the Internet is so much faster than it used to be, downloading video and large amounts of data should be relatively quick, right? Well, that's kind of true but as you can see from sites like YouTube, where you can watch videos online, they're all pretty bad quality compared to what you see on TV. However, there is a solution and that's Bittorrent.
Bittorrent is a protocol or a standard that is used to share files. It is done peer-to-peer, which means you don't connect to a single server (like when browsing the net) but connect to a number of other clients or file sharers. Now, you may have heard of Limewire, eDonkey or Kazaa, which are also peer-to-peer, but Bittorrent works in a slightly different way and is much, much faster. It's faster because the protocol forces you to upload at the same time as you download. Now think of lots of people sharing the same file all uploading as they downloading (and the ones that have finished downloading are now just uploading only or seeding). This means that you can get the same parts of the file from a number of different places. So how do you start using Bittorrent? Well, first of all you need a Bittorrent client or program that runs on your PC to download the file. I recommend UTorrent. It is the best! Once you've installed it, you're ready to go. The next thing that you have to do is find the .torrent file of the show that you want to download. This is like a control file, which tells UTorrent what to download. Now, when people decide to share a file, they need to create this .torrent file and make it available for other people to find. Where do you find this file? There are a number of sites around but the one I recommend for TV is EZTV. For other files, you can try Mininova. Now you can search those sites, find the show you want and download the .torrent file. Once you've downloaded it, you can open it with UTorrent and start it. The program will ask where you want to save the file and will then begin to download. Then you wait and that's it! One more thing, if you have a wireless router at home that you go through to get to the Internet, you will have to forward your ports to allow Bittorrent traffic to go through as it doesn't use a common port for Internet traffic. You can find out how to do this specifically for your router by going to . Note: Using file-sharing (P2P) software for the uploading or downloading of copyrighted works without the permission or authorization of the copyright holders may be illegal and could subject you (or the ISP subscriber) to civil and/or criminal liability and penalties. Meltin Magazine or the author does not condone any violation of copyright through the use of Bittorrent and information here is purely informational.
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