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Q: What is a Torrent, and Why Should I Download One?

A: A torrent is free speech in a box.

Torrents can give you the same freedom to publish something that was previously only enjoyed by a select few.

You have something great to publish, right? Music, videos, software, games, or anything else that you think people would want. But if you share it the normal ways, you're going to have your bandwidth eaten up and spit out!

If it becomes really popular – hundreds, or even thousands of people wanting it at once – your server may just crash, and no one can get to it.

But with torrents, you don't have to worry about high bandwidth cost – or any cost, as it's completely free, and the software to download torrents is free. And once there a few good seeders, you can stop seeding the file altogether, allowing the cycle to take it.

Cooperative distribution, which is basically what torrent files are, can grow without any practical limit, because each person not only brings the demand, but the supply as well. It's a beautiful, not vicious, cycle.

With a torrent file, the cost of free speech is no longer high.