Newbies in the field of internet may not know about torrents. Those who are familiar
with it know it fully. This article is for those who do not know about Torrents.

Firstly, in simple words a torrent is a file with extension .torrent in which uploading & downloading
is simultaneously done & contains all the information to download a file. Normal download managers cannot download these kind of files. To download these kind of files we need torrent clients such as Bit Torrent, µTorrent etc. Some of you may have heard about P2P sharing & torrent is a another method of P2P sharing. A torrent consists of mainly two components namely Seeders and Leechers. Seeders are those who have already downloaded a particular file and are in the process of uploading them. Leechers are those who are sharing what they have and downloading what the others have. Quality of a torrent depends mainly upon the number of seeders, more the number of seeders more fast the download of a torrent will be. Some torrents are sometimes classified as Dead
Torrents. Actually these are those torrents which have basically zero
seeders and leechers. Using torrents one can download almost anything in this world. One of the most popular torrent sites in the world is http://www.thepiratebay.org . Apart from this there are numerous sites which are offering torrent downloads.

Hope from this small article newbies may be well aware of what the torrents are. So go and pick a
client and start downloading a torrent.