So you wanna know how to torrent?

Torrenting files has many advantages.

• torrented videos are usually higher quality than ones you stream
• you can pause a download and resume downloading it later
• you have the file on your hard drive if you ever wanna use it again
  
• if you are watching a video using VLC player, you can turn the brightness for really dark scenes, whereas if you're streaming online, there is only so high you can turn your monitor brightness

This instruction set is not meant to condone piracy. You need to remember that if you are pirating content, that may be illegal in your country, and you could face trouble for it. This instruction set is meant to explain the basics for those who know nothing about torrenting and wish to learn.

Instructions

1. Getting a Program that uses Torrents: You are going to need a program that uses torrents, such as utorrent or bittorrent. Personally, I use utorrent. Install one of these programs onto your computer.

2. Finding a Torrent: Now you need the torrent for what you wish to download. For this, you can just do a google search to find it. For example, "family guy season 2 torrent." Try to look for torrents from sites like ThePirateBay or Demonoid (although you need an invite for a demonoid account). Torrents that have a higher number of "seeders" means that there are many people sharing this file. If you end up on a sketchy site and don't trust the torrent, then don't download it. Personally, I never had a problem with sketchy torrents. If a torrent has many downloads or seeders, then it is more likely to be a legit torrent. Just use your common sense here. Also, read the comments for the torrents, if any, to see what other people have to say about it.

3. Using the Torrent: Once you have the torrent, you can either double-click it to add it to utorrent, or you can open utorrent and go to File > Add Torrent. If you want to download the entire torrent, then just leave everything checkmarked as it is. If you want to download a specific file out of many files in the torrent, uncheck the ones you don't want and then click to start the downloading and utorrent will download the checkmarked file only (also useful if you want to test a file from the torrent without having to download the whole thing). Utorrent and Bittorrent are Peer-to-Peer programs meaning that you get the file from other people who have it. Everyone who has the file or are downloading it are sharing the file with each other. The number of seeders refers to how many people have this torrent downloaded, and the peers or leachers, are people who are downloading it.



4. When you Finish Torrenting: When the torrent reaches 100%, that means that it is finished downloading. At this point you can use whatever it was you torrented. (If your having trouble playing a video, try using VLC player, its works with most video types.) If you are having trouble finding where the downloaded file is located on your computer, look for a "downloads" folder in My Documents. When it has downloaded 100%, you will notice that it says "seeding" beside it. That means you are sharing this file with other people who are downloading it too. It will continue to seed until you remove the torrent from the program. You should let the file seed for a while so that you share with other people who are downloading it. It is generally shunned upon when people just stop seeding as soon as they finish downloading. Let it seed for a while (or if it has a really small number of seeders, you might wanna seed for an even longer amount of time) and then you can right click the torrent to remove it.