What is bittorrent? Bittorrent is a relative new way of sharing files over the internet. Bittorrent is based on p2p-technology, but is different in sharing files to other users.
Normally files will be shared by users if these files are fully downloaded. The common applications for sharing files (p2p) are Kazaa, LimeWire, WinMX, eDonkey, eMule etc. The applications based on bittorrent [bittorrent-clients] will share every bit of the file just downloaded...so not depending of completing files.
By this technology files can be downloaded more fragmented so it will be less heavy to find the missing parts of your download. For more information about BitTorrent see developers site
What do you need for bittorrent? Basicly you need two things for downloading your movies, games etc. First you need an client for handling the packets. Click here for a list of clients you can install. Second you need the files you want to download. Since the releasefirst bittorrent-clients, many sites has been launched offering a large amount of files. These files mostly have the extension .torrent so the clients will pickup the link if the extension is associated with your bittorrent-client. Easy as that....Click here for a list of available sites who are offering lots of files.