it is a fast way to download as the file you get comes in multiple parts simultaneously (torrents) and is assembled as it goes along ...in return for that, your part is to let the file be simultaneously uploaded to others who request it ...I do it sometimes ...there are stand alone torrent clients to acomplish this, but I have chosen the lazy man way to this end as Opera browser has the bittorrent client built in for free and, if active (there is a toggle in the prefs), it works just like any download. Once the download is done, it shows "sharing" in place of "in progress" and, if you close the browser, it will resume the get but NOT resume the share. Very nice.
-----Original Message----- From: Judy Cosler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 12:20 PM Subject: Re: sxsw what is a 'torrent'??? On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:23 AM, mike <[email protected]> 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/ ** *************************************************************************
