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The Big Book of BitTorrent

By Saikat Basu
The Things I Do

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BitTorrent – It’s Just a Simple Way to Share Files
Even God couldn‟t have done it better. The virtue of sharing with our fellow man has been
preached, but perhaps not practiced as often as He would have liked. Thankfully, the World
Wide Web came along to change all that. The internet zips and zaps across borders bringing
information at our fingertips. From restricted bits of data to a free for all exchange of entire
files, the outbreak of file sharing has been as swift as it has been widespread.
Most of us are more familiar with more conventional forms of file sharing such as email and
FTP. BitTorrent is just another file sharing protocol (a set of rules on how to do things) we
can use. Email and FTP rely on one computer hosting the file and transmitting it to another
connected computer. BitTorrent introduces a major difference – the hosting and the
downloading is spread out over many computers using a technology called Peer-to-Peer. We
can use BitTorrent to share or download any type of files – .exe, mp3, AVI, Jpeg, and Doc
etc.