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| | Feature from PC Magazine: Torrents |
 | | And with good reason: BitTorrent works amazingly well to spread out the burden of creating thousands of copies of a file across the clients, or peers, that are downloading the file. |
 | | This collection, known as a swarm, consists of all the clients trying to download the file (the peers, who will also upload pieces as they become available) and clients that have complete copies of the file available for upload (the seeds). |
 | | First, you'll need to search for torrents to feed to your client, on sites like BitTorrent.com (careful there; despite an agreement with the MPAA, there were still plenty of shady-looking search results as we went to print). |
| www.pcmag.com /article2/0,1895,1913683,00.asp (1404 words) |
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