What exactly is Bittorrent, is it legal, and safe to use?  

well, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

No more lines. No more late fees. And definitely no more slow download times. The more popular any file is in our community, the faster you get it to your computer. From there, it’s your choice as to where you play it, even on your television.

Answered by Ni .. at 3:40 PM on July 12, 2008

well, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

No more lines. No more late fees. And definitely no more slow download times. The more popular any file is in our community, the faster you get it to your computer. From there, it’s your choice as to where you play it, even on your television.

Answered by Satya ~ at 5:36 PM on July 09, 2008

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

No more lines. No more late fees. And definitely no more slow download times. The more popular any file is in our community, the faster you get it to your computer. From there, it’s your choice as to where you play it, even on your television.

Answered by Raksha at 9:40 AM on July 07, 2008

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

No more lines. No more late fees. And definitely no more slow download times. The more popular any file is in our community, the faster you get it to your computer. From there, it’s your choice as to where you play it, even on your television.

Answered by Yash at 9:39 AM on July 02, 2008

BitTorrent is a technology used to share large files. For example if you wanted to download a large file, you'd usually have to download it from one site. If the site has a lot of people on it, it'd take a very long time to get it. With BT, everyone gets a chunk of the large file, and shares it with everyone else, so that everyone can get that same file faster. It's quite useful.

The content he can run into depends. Mostly on what he's looking for. Most times it's things like music, and movies, sometimes comics, and other misc. large files. There are tons of "Tracker" sites that help people find popular files, many are specialized for people trying to find one kind of thing.

It should be of note that what they _may_ (not always) be downloading may be protected media (movies/music) content, which being in possession of pirated material would be illegal in many countries. Lots of people take this with a grain of salt though.

However, BITTORRENT, or TORRENTING is -NOT ILLEGAL- It's a very effective technology and is heavily used by some media companies to share their content (Like revision3.com) with users without killing their servers, and to share great software projects (like Ubuntu Linux). Bittorrent is merely a tool. Can be used for good and evil just like you can use a fork to eat, or stab someone in the neck. The key is responsible use. It does not cost anything to use, and anyone who suggests it, is running a scam (Though some trackers will charge some fee to access their stuff in order to keep quality high, and to support their tracker service.)

There is the possibility of finding things like Porn on there, naturally, but you have to be looking for it porn (contrary to popular belief) does not stand out asking you to grab some, you have to FIND it. And stopping someone from accessing one of many torrent trackers is like restricting access to google.

Stopping it would be a challenge, due to the nature of the technology, and how savvy you and your child are. I'd think you could do something with port blocking, but you'd have to know which ones needed to be blocked, for the application he's using, and he'd have to not be smart enough to know what happened so he wouldn't go and fix it.

Personally, I just think a good discussion with him on the subject, what it is, what he does with it, and what rules you want to set on it will be far more productive than to subvert his browsing habits, which'll only just make it more tempting to rebel.


http://www.bittorr en t.com

Answered by Madhurima at 5:58 PM on June 19, 2008

well, BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

Answered by Uttam at 2:23 PM on June 18, 2008

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

No more lines. No more late fees. And definitely no more slow download times. The more popular any file is in our community, the faster you get it to your computer. From there, it’s your choice as to where you play it, even on your television.

Answered by Shobhit at 6:17 PM on June 17, 2008

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

No more lines. No more late fees. And definitely no more slow download times. The more popular any file is in our community, the faster you get it to your computer. From there, it’s your choice as to where you play it, even on your television.

Answered by Sharad Singh at 6:00 PM on June 17, 2008

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources.

With thousands of newly-released movies, TV shows, music tracks, and popular PC games available for download, you can easily find what you want, when you want it.

BitTorrent even enables you to publish your own content. If you are a filmmaker, musician, or even a comedian, it’s the perfect place to showcase your work to a worldwide audience.

No more lines. No more late fees. And definitely no more slow download times. The more popular any file is in our community, the faster you get it to your computer. From there, it’s your choice as to where you play it, even on your television.

Answered by Ashish Yadav at 7:46 PM on June 16, 2008

hi there

BitTorrent is a technology used to share large files. For example if you wanted to download a large file, you'd usually have to download it from one site. If the site has a lot of people on it, it'd take a very long time to get it. With BT, everyone gets a chunk of the large file, and shares it with everyone else, so that everyone can get that same file faster. It's quite useful.

The content he can run into depends. Mostly on what he's looking for. Most times it's things like music, and movies, sometimes comics, and other misc. large files. There are tons of "Tracker" sites that help people find popular files, many are specialized for people trying to find one kind of thing.

It should be of note that what they _may_ (not always) be downloading may be protected media (movies/music) content, which being in possession of pirated material would be illegal in many countries. Lots of people take this with a grain of salt though.

However, BITTORRENT, or TORRENTING is -NOT ILLEGAL- It's a very effective technology and is heavily used by some media companies to share their content (Like revision3.com) with users without killing their servers, and to share great software projects (like Ubuntu Linux). Bittorrent is merely a tool. Can be used for good and evil just like you can use a fork to eat, or stab someone in the neck. The key is responsible use. It does not cost anything to use, and anyone who suggests it, is running a scam (Though some trackers will charge some fee to access their stuff in order to keep quality high, and to support their tracker service.)

There is the possibility of finding things like Porn on there, naturally, but you have to be looking for it porn (contrary to popular belief) does not stand out asking you to grab some, you have to FIND it. And stopping someone from accessing one of many torrent trackers is like restricting access to google.

Stopping it would be a challenge, due to the nature of the technology, and how savvy you and your child are. I'd think you could do something with port blocking, but you'd have to know which ones needed to be blocked, for the application he's using, and he'd have to not be smart enough to know what happened so he wouldn't go and fix it.

Personally, I just think a good discussion with him on the subject, what it is, what he does with it, and what rules you want to set on it will be far more productive than to subvert his browsing habits, which'll only just make it more tempting to rebel.


http://www.bittorren t.com

Answered by Reeta K at 6:00 PM on June 16, 2008