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- Bittorrentsearch for term
- BitTorrent is an increasingly popular means to download audio, video or software files online. Traditionally, when you download a file, you download that file in whole, from a central location. As a result, the speed you can download at capped by the speed of the central computer you're downloading from which can be very slow if a file is popular and many people attempt to download the file at the same time. BitTorrent technology works differently than this. First, BitTorrent cuts large files into extremely small parts. Once the file is cut into parts, a user with BitTorrent software (called a BitTorrent Client) can download portions of the file from dozens, hundreds or thousands of people at the same time. In this way, users can get extremely fast download speeds and are less likely to have download errors. BitTorrent technology is often synonymous with illegal downloading.
