The Internet has left no stone unturned to refashion the world. Every aspect of daily life is dependent on the Internet and technology. Unfortunately, the rise in technological devices has resulted in the rise of infringement. People share content and other soft wares easily through the Internet without legal authority. This behaviour of transferring files, soft wares, and other content has reached greater heights since 2003.
People often browse for content that is free of cost and easy to download. They visit various online portals to track real and original content. For downloading and sharing large data files they one takes the help of Torrent.
The Meaning of Torrent: –
Torrent is a protocol that allows peer-to-peer file transfer. It is a useful protocol to share and download large files. The files can be shared, transferred, and downloaded by a large number of users. The user’s participation on Torrent is quite active. One can view the names and the sizes of the files before downloading. But the guarantee of originality is less.
Torrent invites are transferred over the Internet. Invite Hawk is a website that is considered to be open-source of transmitting the invites of Torrent.
The terminologies related to Torrent are as follows: –
- Client:
The data available on the torrent site is downloaded with the help of torrent clients. The large files are divided into smaller quantities and uploaded for the downloaders. These pieces of the files are then connected into one. A torrent protocol software acts as a downloader to load files and receive them.
- Seed:
The Torrent client is responsible for creating and managing the peers and the seeds. The seeder is the one who generally has completed the download and is only focused on uploading content.
- Peer:
When leechers and seeds come together, then it is known as a peer. The speed of downloading the content with the help of Torrent is completely dependent on the count of peers.
- Leecher:
People usually browse for downloading files for themselves at a higher speed. They are not so keen on sharing or transferring those files. Such people who are only the downloaders and not transfers are known as Leecher.
- Tracker:
The uploading and downloading process are carried continuously. Thus, a regulator is important to manage the communication between the downloaders and the uploaders. Thus, a tracker is a server that is responsible for keeping an eye on them.
People are inclined to watch movies, play games, share files, transfer data, etc., for free without causing any hindrance in the functioning of the webserver.
Steps to use Torrent are: –
- Browse for a torrent client.
- Download and install it.
- Search for the files that are required
- Click on Get Torrent
- The torrent file will open.
- Glance through the screenshots of the files and the size.
- Click ”Open the torrent”
- Look for the files that are available for download.
- Click on O.K to download.
These easy steps will help the visitor to download any sort of content free of cost. Nevertheless, downloading torrents in inappropriate ways will result in consequences.