Torrents are often used to illegally distribute pirated content (movies, music, software, "cracked" operating systems, etc.), and you can be prosecuted for illegal sharing of that content (both for downloading it, and for distributing it if your computer is acting as a seed to help resend it to others (the default with most BitTorrent client software, but you can change the way most products work for seeding content you downloaded from others). The greater the number of users acting as seeds, the better for performance purposes, so that other people that want the same file can get parts of it from more sources, speeding up the time it takes them to get a complete download.Īs for legality, again, what are you downloading? Most BitTorrent software also defaults so that you're also acting as a "seed", so that you're providing the same file you download to other users. Various "trackers" are used to advertise the files available, and you can select from a wide variety of client software that lets you download the file you want, where you may be downloading the same file from multiple other computers at the same time (where the client software you're using then reconstructs the file you're downloading until you have complete download. BitTorrent is a protocol that allows peer to peer file sharing, versus the need for a centralized server.
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