What is a torrent?

[CajunGuy]

And is it taking place of the MP3? Can I play it in my MP3 player? WTF is it???:confused:

[DJDarknez]

no no no

torrents (bittorrents) are a method of obtaining mp3s. And movies. And TV shows. And software. And prono. And all kinds of stuff.

[Hilly]

So it's a download method?

[DJDarknez]

yep. A type of peer to peer

[ohgolly_80]

it is what most people use now to get free stuff.

[DJDarknez]

yes. and it is aweome

[ohgolly_80]

i would agree. but you still get shit sometimes.

[CajunGuy]

Uh, can you give us a step by step tutorial, I "borrow" music using shareaza and that crap is always coming up, how do you open it once you download it?

[ohgolly_80]

go to google. type in torrent and whatever artist or song you want. it will bring up a bunch of different ones you can use. once you pick one it will give you help with downloading the torrent software to get the music.

[CajunGuy]

I shall try that!

[ohgolly_80]

good luck. if you need help, will is better at making it understandable. lol. i am more of click on the thingy there and click on that thingy. lol.

[DJDarknez]

non!

You need a program. I use one called utorrent. utorrent.com

Once that's installed, you go to a torrent search site. There are several, I use mininova.org and btjunkie.org alot. Search for what you want and click on the torrent link, it'll open in utorrent.

[Sgdalero]

thanks for torrent 101!!!