Summer Torrents: 2013 Football - Indiana at Michigan
Original broadcast
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Ok I'm going to ask a question I've always felt like I was suppose to already know the answer to. What in the hell is a "Torrent" and how is it different from video highlights that posters like Wolverine Historian put up?
a torrent is a unique file that has some interesting properties. One way to think about a .torrent file is that you're actually downloading a telephone book of sorts - the .torrent file contains a few things - the address of a relay point, where both sharers and downloaders address make a connection to each to download the desired content.
when you download a file from the internet, chances are you're making a direct connection to the place where you're downloading something from. A .torrent file works a little bit differently - you'll need a program to open the .torrent file (uTorrent has historically been pretty popular) and that program will interpret the data within .torrent file to connect to a relay point, which will then establish a connection to someone who is sharing the file.
Torrents are considered Peer-to-Peer - while the relay acts the intermediary, the connection is facilitated through uploaders and downloaders. There is no direct connection through a website, everything is decentralized to an extent through the .torrent file.
Well in four years I'll probably work up the courage to ask what the explanation meant.
In the meantime though I'll just nod my head and say oooooh, now I get it. Thanks.
Painful game.
Thank you for this!