What is Bit Torrent?

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Hey everybody my name is Matt and I'm speaking to you on behalf of Expert Village. But today I'm going to be teaching you about bit torrent. For those who don't know what bit torrent is it is a pier to pier file sharing software. Maybe you've used file sharing software before such as lime wire, or bear share or even napster but bit torrent works a little bit different than these other types of software and I'll get into that a little bit later. One of the main advantages there is for downloading files music in particular with bit torrent is that you can download of multiple files much more easier with bit torrent. In a lot of cases you can download them more quickly. Say you want to download an entire album instead of just a song you find the bit torrent file open it up and everything will start automatically downloading for you so you don't have to search out each particular song. I'm not going to get a lot into the history behind bit torrent if you want to know about that or if you have any more questions about bit torrent that I don't cover here there's a lot good FAQ's on the internet. You can go to http://dessent.net/btfaq there's a lot of stuff you can learn about bit torrent there or if you go to wikipedia at wiki.com and run a search on bit torrent there's a good article there and between these two sites you can find out everything you would ever want to know about bit torrent so let's get started learning about bit torrent.

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