Alyse Golden

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Alyse Golden
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What is BitTorrent?

• Concept created by Bram Cohen
• Peer-2-Peer file-sharing program
• File sharing protocol
• Similar to Limewire, Bearshare, and other
  file-sharing programs
• Database of larger-sized files

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How Does It Work?

• First, search for torrent files from torrent
  websites such as
• Use BitTorrent.com
• Torrentz.com
• Torrentspy.com
• Second, select the file you want to download and
  the BitTorrent downloader will open
• The torrent directs the downloader to the right
  file and downloads a separate file (the actual
  song, movie, image, originally searched for)
• The more people that log on, the less bandwidth
  is being used and the files will download faster

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The BitTorrent Downloader
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How is it Different?

• How is BitTorrent different from other P2P
  networks?
• BitTorrent uses torrent files, which breaks up
  the files into many different pieces and
  downloads from many sources
• Other programs, such as Limewire and Bearshare,
  downloads directly as one large file as opposed
  to getting many pieces of the same file from many
  sources
• BitTorrent also does not require as much
  bandwidth as the other P2P programs

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