The basics
So, some people out there still don’t know what a torrent file is or what it is to do with that file. I am writing this to help out the few that are unaware of what a torrent is, what BitTorrent is, or what to do with the files you grab in the meantime.
BitTorrent the protocol was developed in 2001 by Bram Cohen as Python code. At the time he had rounded up free pornography to lure beta testers to use the software. Had he not, the protocol probably would not have taken off the way it had.
What makes bittorrent so efficient for large transfers is that paired with the error checking, the mechanism to make sure the file is correct, it uses a distribution of different peers, seeders, and leachers to download the files from. Using this distributed or mesh network makes for high reliability, high redundancy, and high speed transfers.
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