On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:30:24 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Sounds really scary.....

Not really. Download & install Azareus for free (there are others), google
for "whatever you are looking for torrent" to find a site that has got
the torrent[1][2], click on the link, tell your browser to open it with
azareus, tell azareus where to save the file to, wait for it to download.
Not much different from using other 3rd-party download managers.


[1] except the site with the .torrent file doesn't actually have the file
you're trying to download, only a pointer to everyone else who's got it
who will let you have a bit of theirs, which your torrent client puts
together to make the whole. Since it's a cooperative effort it's etiquette
to leave your torrent client (azareus/whatever) running until your 'share
ratio' is up to where you've given back to others as much as you got. I
stop sharing when I've got to a ratio of 2, though some torrents never get
above about 0.5.

[2] look for a torrent that's got the highest number of 'seeders'
(people who've got the whole file) as well as 'leachers' (people like you
who are downloading bits but haven't got it all yet).

--
John Stumbles

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.