10.09
I actually download lots of stuff through torrents, and i know some basic of how torrents work. Torrents work in a fashion very much similar to local network’s file and printer sharing.
The first stage is creating a torrent. This must be done the first time by someone. Most Bit Torrent clients allow you to create a torrent. Basically you should gather all your files in one folder (preferable) and create a torrent file out of it. You must specify a tracker for the same. Once the .torrent file is created you can upload this .torrent file to any torrent masters such as mininove, piratebay, etc.
The next step is to load this torrent file in the torrent client (e.g. Vuze) and it starts seeding.
Anyone looking for the specific file (inside the torrent) or the torrent itself will hit the torrent site through google search and download the .torrent file. He/she will then load the torrent in the client and the torrent starts downloading – with you being the peer/seed and the other person being the peer/leach.
The contents of the torrent are divided into many pieces of equal size (256KB to 1 MB being most common). Any seeding or downlaoding is done piece by piece. The torrent tracker keeps track of what piece is owned by who. This way, piece by piece, the torrent contents are downloaded until all the pieces are with you. Once done, the torrent client automatically shifts the mode from ‘downloading’ to ’seeding’.
Some Basic terms of .torent files are like follwing when you download files
Leeches - People who download files but do not share files on their own computer with others
Seed or seeder - A computer with a complete copy of a BitTorrent file (At least one seed computer is necessary for a BitTorrent download to operate.)