Non Boaty.............BitTorrent ?

[Ocklepoint]

Must be getting senile, I've just posted this in Passages and Places.Sorry about that. (Can you delete it Nick?)

A question from a technical illiterate

Are "Bit Torrents" a good thing?

There was mention in TOP about getting audio books from some site called mininova.org which says you need a BitTorrent

All a bit of a puzzle, maybe I should just stick to reading books,

[ash]

Bit Torrent is a peer to peer file sharing system. I see the icon on my grandchildren's lappy but I've never used it myself.

I did try Limewire at one point but every attempt at a download caused my virus checkers to state that the download was contaminated by a trojan, so I now won't have it on my machine.

I don't know if Bit Torrent is any cleaner.

Wikipedia - Bit Torrent

Ash

[Silkie]

You clearly don't have any problems with this FC but I'm instinctively unhappy with having my PC uploading on demand from elsewhere. My kids installed limewire which I have removed but perhaps I'm just a dinosaur. I'll need to investigate further.

[Alan_D]

... I'm instinctively unhappy with having my PC uploading on demand from elsewhere. My kids installed limewire which I have removed but perhaps I'm just a dinosaur. I'll need to investigate further.

Doesn't the BBC iPlayer thingie work the same way?

[Silkie]

It does if you want to download but not if you just stream.