"Torrent" is a process for "defeating" the normal throttling (individual bandwidth) of the Internet by downloading [large] files in several (more than one) parallel streams, each individual stream being normally throttled, but the resulting composite stream being Nx faster than a single stream. BitTorrent (spelling?) is a particular implementation.
Fred Holmes At 12:19 PM 3/13/2009, Judy Cosler wrote: >what is a 'torrent'??? > >On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM, mike <xha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know this isn't quite a computer topic but it does relate to digital >> music >> so.. >> >> The South by Southwest music festival takes place soon and this link is to >> torrents to download almost 6 gigs of music to fill up your ipod...or >> really >> cheap player you may regret buying. I got all of it last year and after >> spending much time going through it, I found quite a lot that was good and >> expect the same this year, so if you are into music and want to put a whole >> lot of it on your ipod at once this is a great chance to do so. >> >> http://sites.google.com/site/sxsw2009torrent/ >> >> torrent - download - seed. >> >> >> ************************************************************************* >> ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >> ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >> ************************************************************************* >> > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
