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Torrent Client
A client is a bittorrent program. For example Azureus and Bittornado.
Seeds
Users that have 100% of a file.
Peers
Users that have not completed the file. 0–99% complete
Leechers
Same as peers.
Tracker
A server that handles and stores the torrent files.
Source: thepiratebay.org/howdoidownload.php
torrentfreak.com: The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent’s fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.
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Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. (more…)
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From lifehacker.com.au
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Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. Torrent sites offer a lot of information about the torrents they have available, but sometimes you just don't want to navigate to the site and look at all the annoying ads, or maybe you...
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Swedish BitTorrent site tracker site further decentralizes content distribution, and in fact decides not to run a tracker anymore.
Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay has taken content distribution to the next level with the introduction of site-wide magnet links that let you download a torrent directly into your BitTorrent client, instead of your browser.
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BitTorrent is extremely useful for lots of downloading and file-sharing, but if a less tech-inclined friend of yours doesn’t understand BitTorrent or you can’t install a BitTorrent client, new website httpTorrents lets you download files of popular torrents directly via HTTP. (more…)
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