Ocklepoint wrote: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,
No, its easy.
Get uTorrent from here
http://www.utorrent.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
freeware, so no cost. Setup is easy.
Then you go to Google and search for, lets say Jane Austen
So, put in the search term Torrent Jane Austen.
It will come up with a list of available torrents for Jane Austen. Click one.
You will see if it has seeders and leechers. You need to ensure it has seeders (people who have the file available) and not too many leechers(people who want to download the file).
Also there is usually a torrent healthcheck and some review comments from downloaders. If this looks good, and no poor comments, then click to download.
It will put a small torrent file, usually on your desktop, and will then open your copy of uTorrent to do the download for you.
This is automatic and no real issue.
Then you can see the progress in downloader.
Note, that you are also now a seeder, and you are also uploading to other people. Thats how the system works. It is good form to let the torrent stay open for people to uplaod until you reach a ratio of 1:1. This means that you have uploaded the file and downloaded the file in equal measure. You can then delete it.
The downloaded file stays where you chose to put it.
Easy Peasy.
Beware of copyright issues,ahem.
I downloaded new torrent copies of my 70s vinyl LP's rather than copy them to disc.