| On the internet you can find a lot of movies, games | | | | filename which says 'Fellowship of the Ring' in it AND |
| and software. Many people want to download these | | | | you pick one with a good Health status. |
| but don't know how to download these. | | | | When you found a good file you click on the filename. |
| Why can your friends download the latest movies and | | | | Here you can see some details about the torrent file. |
| games, and why can't you do that? | | | | You can read them if you want. |
| Many people think downloading a movie for example | | | | The next thing you need to do is to download this |
| can simply be done by typing the name of the movie | | | | torrent file to your computer. |
| into Google, click on the first hit Google finds and click | | | | Click on the 'Download' button. |
| on the 'download this movie' button and a couple of | | | | Here you can download the torrent. I recommend to |
| hours later the movie can be watched in the living | | | | download the torrent from the 'Primary' site. |
| room. | | | | Now you are being taken to the website you have |
| In fact the reality is a bit different. Downloading movies, | | | | chosen or where ever the torrent is located, OR you |
| games and software is quite simple and can be done | | | | simply get a popup window to store the torrent file to |
| in several ways but it isn't as easy as I said above. | | | | your computer. |
| How can I download movies, games and software? | | | | Here you save the file to your computer. For example |
| You can download movies, games and software in | | | | in your torrents folder in D:\my torrents. |
| several ways. A very often used way is to download | | | | Okay, now you have your torrent file. Can you watch |
| these using 'Torrents' or using 'Newsgroups'. | | | | the movie already? |
| I want to help you on how to download using Torrents. | | | | The answer is: NO you can't. |
| I think it is less interesting for you how torrents or | | | | What you have done is just downloading the torrent. |
| newsgroups work if you want to download movies, | | | | And this torrent files WILL download your requested |
| games or software and that's why I only explain HOW | | | | movie, game or software (in my example, the movie |
| to download. | | | | 'The Fellowship of the Ring'.) |
| Now let me explain to you how to download via | | | | So what are we going to do now? |
| Torrents: | | | | Now we need a program where we can import this |
| The first thing you do, is ask yourself: What do I want | | | | torrent file and download the movie. |
| to download? | | | | Such a program is called a BitTorrent client. |
| For example: a Lord of the Rings movie. | | | | There are several BitTorrent clients available on the |
| Okay, you know what you want? Good. | | | | World Wide Web. |
| Now you have to find a torrent to download a 'Lord of | | | | For example: |
| the Rings' movie. | | | | - BitComet |
| There are several websites where you can find | | | | - Azureus |
| torrents. I will recommend you a few torrent sites | | | | - BitTornado |
| which are very good torrent sites. | | | | - Shareaza |
| - | | | | In my example I will explain how to download the |
| - | | | | movie using BitComet. |
| - | | | | Now you have to download BitComet and install it on |
| - | | | | your computer. |
| In my example I will describe how to download a | | | | You can download BitComet here. |
| torrent via | | | | After you have installed BitComet you can use it for |
| Go to and type in the search area 'Lord of the Rings' | | | | downloading movies, games and software via the |
| and click the 'torrent' button. | | | | torrent files you downloaded. |
| Now scroll down to see what Torrentspy has found | | | | Now go to your torrents download folder (in my |
| on 'Lord of the Rings'. | | | | example 'D:\my torrents') and double click on the |
| These are the results of your search query. The files | | | | torrent file you which to download. |
| you here are '.torrent' files. These files have to be | | | | Now the file will be opened in BitComet. Here you |
| imported in a BitTorrent client. I will discuss the | | | | simply click 'Ok' and then the download will start. |
| BitTorrent client later, don't worry. | | | | After the download is compleet (100%) there are |
| Well now, you see 7 columns, namely: | | | | several files in your download folder. These files are |
| | | | mostly .RAR files which can be unpacked to one |
| 1. Torrent Name: the name of the torrent. | | | | movie, game or software file. |
| 2. Category: What kind of torrent is it. Is it a movie, a | | | | To unpack .RAR files you need the program WinRar. |
| game, music or an application. | | | | You can download WinRar at |
| 3. Size: This is the size of the complete file when it is | | | | WinRar unpacks all the .RAR files to a usable movie |
| completely downloaded. | | | | file. |
| 4. Files: how many files are going to be downloaded | | | | After you have unpacked al the downloaded .RAR |
| with this torrent. | | | | files you can watch you movie on your computer or |
| 5. S: how many seeders are available. So, how many | | | | you can burn them on a DVD to watch it in your DVD |
| people seed a part of the complete file. | | | | player. |
| 6. D: Downloaders. How many downloaders does this | | | | You have successfully: |
| file have. | | | | - Downloaded your torrent file, |
| 7. Health: this is the health of the file. The more green it | | | | - Downloaded your movie using this torrent file, |
| is, the better. So you should get the files which are | | | | - Unpacked your downloaded .RAR files. |
| having the best health status. | | | | Congratulations!! You have successfully downloaded a |
| If you point your mouse for a few seconds on a | | | | movie using a .torrent file. |
| filename there is a balloon shown up as shown in the | | | | For downloading games or software you simply follow |
| picture above which tells you the complete Filename. | | | | the steps above. The only thing different is that you |
| Choose which files you are going to download. For | | | | search for something else. Here you simply search for |
| example if you are looking for the movie 'Fellowship of | | | | the game or software you like to download. |
| the Ring' of 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy, you search for a | | | | |