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A torrent file
is a
peer-to-peer
file sharing
protocol used for distributing large amounts of
data.
BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring
large files, and by some estimates it accounted for approximately
35% of all traffic on the entire
Internet in 2004. The protocol works when a file provider initially makes his/her file (or group of files) available to the network. This is called a seed and allows others, named peers, to connect and download the file. Each peer that downloads a part of the data makes it available to other peers to download. After the file is successfully downloaded by a peer, many continue to make the data available, becoming additional seeds. This distributed nature of BitTorrent leads to a viral spreading of a file throughout peers. Relative to standard Internet hosting, this provides a significant reduction in the original distributor's hardware and bandwidth resource costs. There are numerous BitTorrent clients available for a variety of computing platforms. According to isoHunt, the total amount of shared content is currently more than 1.7 petabytes. Source: Wikipedia. |
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