Monday, October 4, 2010

Movie Downloads Use Bit Torrents For Faster Service

By Eula Hoover

Through movie downloads, you can enjoy blockbusters even without renting a DVD or going to a movie house. With just a computer and broadband internet connection, you can get movies from other people online. Imagine the convenience this means provide among movie buffs.

There are tons of online sites where they can pay for their regular dose of movies. However, there is a free way of getting movies online that many people take advantage of. It is called bit torrent sharing, or P2P (peer to peer) file sharing. And it is not only movies that bit torrent sharing makes available. There are also books, videos, software, music and others.

This works by enabling you to download small bits of files from various web sources, or users, at the same time. When downloading blockbusters, it means you are getting parts of it directly from other people's computer hard drives. Likewise, you are also sharing yours to millions of internet users worldwide.

So how do you download movies through bit torrent? First, you need to download and install in your computer a torrent program or software. You can easily find this on the web, and it is for free. Having this program is necessary as it is through it that you can locate users with the film you wish to download.

Once you have a torrent program installed, the next procedure is to locate the movie you are looking for. Fire up any web browser of your choice. Then go to a torrent site. Got no idea? Then simply look for one using a search engine. Once you got a torrent site open, type the title of the movie you wish to download inside the search box. Hit the enter key or click on the search button to get a listing of related files.

Scroll through the list to find the file you are looking for. Several different files will show up, depending on various features. Such include: the file type, file size, the number of seeders, etc. What you pick will depend on your preferences. But usually, when it comes to movies, the larger the file size, the better quality it is.

You might also want to pick the file with the highest number of seeders available. Users that provide copies of a complete movie file are the seeders. They are the numbers of users online with the blockbuster film you are looking for. So the more seeders a file has, the more likely you will download it the fastest way. But it will also depend on the speed of your internet connection.

Once you have decided on a particular movie, based on file size, type and seeders, the next procedure is to start the download. By double-clicking on a file on the list, the torrent program which you previously installed will start up. Click the okay button, or any other similar button, to commence the downloading.

Movie downloads are completed in only a matter of hours. But then again, depending on the file's size, seeders, and of course your internet's reliability. Once the file has completed downloading, you will get a message, and you can enjoy watching it right away. - 39815

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