Torrent info required

[caveman]

Ignore this post if it is a banned subject.
I hear the term Torrent bartered around forums but have never really fully understood it. I have in the past used a Peer to Peer site Kazzar, but stopped because a) Viruses and b) I couldn't config. my then new Router to use the service.
Where can I get info about using Torrents. Are some legal and some not. Are the legal ones expensive and are the illegal ones dangerous ie. viruses. Are routers easy to configure and is the material available worth the hassle.
Can any of you guys help / advise or point me in the right direction. Cheers.

[punky]

Torrents are a form of peer-to-peer. So same rules apply. Some torrents are legal, some aren't. Some can still contain viruses. You'd configure your router in the same way, i.e. you set a port to use in your BitTorrent program and then set that to port to open and forward to the machine that has thas the program running.

You can find more info here.

A basic summary is that to start downloading you need to download a small .torrent file. Once you have that you can start downloading, providing there are people online who have the file to share.

Its OK to discuss BitTorrent as a theory here. What we won't allow is linking to illegal torrent files/sites. Many sites do use BitTorrent to distribute their legally-owned content legally.

[Gareth]

Another good link... http://www.slyck.com/bt.php

[r00t]

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