Originally posted by rspurr
Well you dont need BitTorrent for this to work. Someone got confused somewhere.
TVUplayer and SOPcast work a lot like BitTorrent, except the host is not a file, its a TV stream.
BitTorrent is a means for distributing content, be it videos, music, files, etc. over the internet.
You goto indexing sites like BitTorrent.com (official site) and search for torrent files. You download the .torrent file and open it in your BitTorrent client (Azureus, uTorrent, BitComet, BitTorrent Official). The .torrent file tells the client what tracker to connect to and what information to obtain for downloading.
The tracker is a remote server which contains the information necessary to contact users who are hosting the content you wish to download.
A person who hosts the file, be it the video, music, files, etc. creates the torrent file and tells the tracker (through the program) that he is hosting the file. People then download the .torrent file and use the information that the host sent to the tracker to contact the host and download the file.
Once users start downloading the file from the host, they themselves become hosts for whatever they have downloaded.
So when 200 people or something connect to the torrent, its not 200 people downloading from the host simultaneously. It is 200 people in a big spider web distributing the pieces of the host file which they have downloaded from the host amongst each other.
Thats a very simplistic explanation.
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