How does BitTorrent work?
BitTorrent is the name of a peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, and is the name of a free software implementation of that protocol. The protocol was originally designed and created by programmer Bram Cohen, and is now maintained by BitTorrent Inc. BitTorrent is designed to distribute large amounts of data widely without incurring the corresponding consumption in costly server and bandwidth resources. CableLabs, the research organization of the North American cable industry, believes that BitTorrent represents 55% of the upstream traffic on the cable companies’ access network.CacheLogic puts that number at roughly 35% of all traffic on the Internet, although there are dissenting opinions on the methodology to measure P2P traffic on the Internet.
An interactive Java Applet showing how the BitTorrent network works. The image below consists of 5 seeders and 5 leechers.
BitTorrent source Wikipedia
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PLEASE HELP.CAN BITTORENT WORK WITH VISTA OR IS THERE ANOTHER WAY I CAN USE SOMETHING SIMILAR? ALSO HOW DO I GET THE FILES I MEAN MUSIC AND MOVIES ETC.
Tony, yes BitTorrent works with Vista. In fact I use it everyday. I downloaded it from here
http://www.bittorrent.com/download
ok i got the latest version. now can someone tell me how to get movies and music on to my computer using bittorrent because i have just got the internet and dont know what the hell im doing thanks
i have vlc media player and have sound but no picture on everything i try and watch can someone help???