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Definition: Torrent is a small file (around few kilobytes) with the suffix .torrent, which contains all the information needed to download a file the torrent was made for. That means it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on. You can get torrents for almost anything on lots of web sites and torrent search engines.

Downloading with a torrent is advantageous especially when downloading files, which are momentarily very popular and whitch lots of people are downloading. Because the more people download the file, the higher speed for everyone.

Torrents are person to person sharing(P2P).
so that means it goes straight from some else computer to your computer, or the other way around
Usage: My friend friend gave me a torrent so I can get a story that he had wrote that is on his computer.
Posted by deltoran on July 5, 2009 at 04:38:15 Pacific

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