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ya its me again...ok i very soon kno wat a torrent is but i obligation to kno wat the bleak side...can i win virus? how do they word..wats a nut and a leecher...and i purely want an explaination on how they work


Answers: A "seed" is a individual who uploads stuff so the "leechers" approaching YOU can download it.

The opinion near bittorrent is that u are not downloading from a server but from other guys using bittorrent who own the required facts on their computer. You are connected beside abundant different seed and here is no problem if 1 or 2 of them are going down - plentiful others are gone to download from. You can also stop and restart ur dl as regularly as you need, you dont own to start at nothing bytes again. Thats a great advatage when downloading huge files.

@viruses: Of course near are virus sometimes. So never forget to scan your downloads near an anti-virus program. If you do that, you should not own valid problems near virus (I never have serious problems)
Don't grasp busted!

People DO procure caught stealing "stuff" using P2P filesharing programs such as Limewire, Kazza etc and torrents, and obverse huge fines. Don't steal stuff if ya can't afford to due the time.

People as childish as 12 years infirm.

"The music industry have turned its big lawful guns on Internet music-swappers — including a 12-year-old New York City girl who thought downloading songs be fun."

"Brianna LaHara said she be frightened to swot she be among the hundreds of family sued yesterday by giant music companies within federal courts around the country."

"I get really startled. My stomach is adjectives turning," Brianna said finishing dark at the city Housing Authority apartment where on earth she lives next to her mom and her 9-year-old brother."

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