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By Wendy Boswell, About.com Guide to Web Search since 2004

What is a torrent?

Saturday January 3, 2009
Today, we're going to talk about one of the Web's biggest crazes: torrents.

Torrents, also known as bittorrents, are part of an extremely popular peer to peer file distribution system used for transferring large files within a large network of people. You can use torrents to download books, movies, television shows, games, and a whole lot more. Torrents take some getting used to, but today, I'm going to give you a free pass to Torrents 101.

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