Ways to uninstall Bittorent in Mac and Windows.

How to Uninstall Utorrent/Bittorent in Windows?

Go to Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. There you will find an entry for BitTorrent or utorrent. If it's not there, it can be the case of in correct installation . You can reinstall the latest version and then uninstall it.

How to Uninstall Utorrent/ Bit torent in Mac OS X ?

Simply drag the application to the trash. If you also wish to delete the preferences, trash the file ~/Library/Preferences/BitTorrent.plist as well.

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What is seeding? Why should I leave the client open after it finishes downloading?

First, you may want to read the answers to the question on terminology. A seed is a client which has a complete file. Seeding is the process of connecting to a torrent when you have a complete file. There are two ways to do this:

• ...by leaving your client open after the download completes. Once you have the entire file you become a seed, and the BitTorrent client remains connected to the swarm, sending to other users until you close it.
• ...by clicking on a torrent link (or opening a saved .torrent file) and selecting a filename of a file that has already completed. BitTorrent will check over the file and realize that it's already complete, and continue to connect to the tracker and serve as a seed.

It's generally considered a good idea to leave your client open as long as possible, since it helps other users. Some communities have guidelines on when it's permissible to disconnect, typically after the ratio of bytes received to bytes sent reaches 1:1, or 24 hours after the download completes. Please be nice, and do what you can to contribute to other users.

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Torrent Share Ratio

Knowing about Share Ratio, seeds, peers, leechers makes torrent download experience great. So what exactly is bittorent share ratio? And what role share ratio plays in torrent download speed?

A user's share ratio for any individual torrent is a number determined by dividing the amount of data that user has uploaded by the amount of data they have downloaded. Final share ratios over 1 carry a positive connotation in the BitTorrent community because they indicate that the user has sent more data to other users than they received. Likewise, share ratios under 1 have a negative connotation.

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What is the best torrent downloader for a mac?

Searching for best torrent program for Mac.

µtorrent doesn't work on macbook, I suggest vuze (azureus) or transmission. I am sure they are best torrent client available for Macbook.
You can also try Xtorrent is all about search. Type keywords in and the results show up right in Xtorrent.


Also These are top best bittorent clients for mac.
Update: Now there is utorrent for Mac.

I don't recommend BitThief for torrent users.

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Steps to Finding the Best Torrents

Trying to find the best torrents and not being attacked by a virus. I have been through this and ever since I developed a few set of rules for every torrent that I downloaded and I did find the best torrents to download ever since, here are those 5 rules:

1. The most important thing is to check the date when the torrent was added, make sure that the torrent is at least 5 days old, because if it is a virus it may takes up to 3 days for it to be discovered as a virus and cleaned from the system.
2. Read the comments, and do not fall for it if there are as less as 3 comments. Usually if it is a virus, the person who made it can add 3 comments from different accounts just to make people believe in it. People usually tell in comments about the torrent, for example they’ll tell you if it is a virus.
   
   
   
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3. The ratio between seeders and leechers is a very important aspect. Make sure that the ratio of seeders to leechers is somewhere around 5 : 4 or something similar to that. In case 1 if there are a lot more seeders than leechers then you can consider yourself to be wasting time to set it to downloading as you would not get any downloading speed, in Case 2 if there are five time more seeders than the leechers, then there is something fishy as hackers know how to easily fake the seeders count, if you’re not very good in mathematical ratios then check the Seeder Leecher Ratio Calculator and enter either the seeder or leecher of a torrent and it will tell you the suitable amount of the other one.
4. Use a good torrent site and always search for the same torrent in all of them as it will help you find the best one, I recommend the torrent sites listed below as they are the most reliable ones, although the first is the most recommended but the rest torrent search engines are not that bad either:
   1. btjunkie
   2. Pirate Bay
   3. Mini Nova
5. Download torrents from famous users. Anonymous users usually put torrents of malicious softwares, for example if you want to download latest English movies you should search for the movies by aXXo or KLAXXON. It is best not to download torrents from guest and anonymous users.

I follow these 5 steps and have found the right torrents ever since, and this not only finds the right torrent but also protects you from virus torrents, and trust me you don’t want to be attacked by one!

Source: http://www.3arn.net/

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Create and upload torrent file

Well lets see how to create a torrent and then upload it using Utorrent, bitcomet and Azureus.

Torrents are the best way to share files. It works on peer to peer file sharing protocol. A torrent is actually a small file with extension .torrent which contains information about the tracker and where the file is located. To download a torrent file you need a torrent client like utorrent, bittorrent.

Please note I got this information from http://torrentfreak.com/

So how do you make torrent? Well it’s very simple. Open your favorite BitTorrent client and do the magic trick:

file > create torrent

That’s all? Well almost. All you need to do now is put in the tracker info and tick some boxes. This can differ somewhat from client to client but it all comes down to the same thing.

Utorrent.

1. File > Create new Torrent (or CTRL + N)
2. Select the files and or directories

3. Trackers: This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some good trackers you can use:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

4. Do NOT tick the private torrent box (unless you’re using a private tracker)

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

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Bitcomet

1. File > Create Torrent (or CTRL + M)

2. Select the files and or directories

3. Select “enable public DHT network” from the dropdown box
This way you can be your own tracker if the public tracker goes down.

4. Tracker server and DHT node list
Again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers. You can use one or more trackers, but in general one is enough.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce
http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
udp://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

5. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

Azureus

1. File > New Torrent (or CTRL + N)

2. Tick “use an external tracker”.
And again, This is probably the hard part for most people. But it’s pretty easy, just put in one of the popular public trackers.

Here are some of the most popular trackers at the moment:

http://tracker.prq.to/announce
http://inferno.demonoid.com:3389/announce
http://tracker.bt-chat.com/announce
http://tracker.zerotracker.com:2710/announce

Put one of these in the tracker box

3. Select single file or dicectory, click NEXT and point to the file or directory you want to share, and click NEXT

4. Do NOT tick “private torrent”

5. Do tick “allow decentralized tracking”

6. Save the torrent and send it to your friends

Warning: uploading copyright-protected material might be prohibited by law in some countries. Sites do not take any responsibility for your submission.

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what is the importance of seeds, peers & leachers in torrents?

Torrent, Peer, Seed, Leech, Tracker :BitTorrent Terminology
What are seeds and peers (leechers) in torrents?

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How to determine quality of torrent movie?

Its hard to determine the quality of stuff you download through torrents. So the best possible way to find it is by reading the comments on release.

Now you know how to find good quality torrents.

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what is the importance of seeds, peers & leechers in torrents?

The amount of seeds and leechers (peers) has nothing to do with the film quality. They have to do with the speed of the download and generally it is best to have a high seed to peer ratio (more seeds than peers).

This also answers:
What is the importance of seed to peer ratio?
Why should you seed? To help others.
Why am I asked keep seeding and importance?


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Top Torrent (Bittorrent) Sites

Well I began using bittorent quite late, infact it has been only been 6 months since I became a sort of torrent freak myself. Back in early days I used to google for latest good quality torrents, but soon I found that there are specific torrent indexing sites where you get quality torrent easily. And mind you, the list of most used torrent sites vary according to every person's preference.

So in order to make best and true list of best ranked torrent sources online I decided to use Alexa.com, and compare the traffic visiting these bittorent sites. Following are the latest Alexa ranking few common torrent indexing sites :

1. Mininova
Alexa Rank: 88

2. ThePirateBay
Alexa Rank: 108

3. Torrentz
Alexa Rank: 224

4. Isohunt
Alexa Rank: 225

5. BTjunkie
Alexa Rank: 547

So, now may be you all too will agree why I am a big fan of Mininova. But yes is you have some other good popular torrent source which I have missed please tell about it. I would be more than happy to include it in the list.

Rest of you enjoy the torrents and keep seeding.

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Download latest torrents from Mininova

Searching for latest best quality torrents of movies, albums, softwares or a TV show. Download New! Torrent Search Toolbar for free!

Mininova is one of the largest Torrent sites on the web.
Mininova is a directory and search engine for many kinds of torrent files. Mininova launched at January 2005 and since then is considered to be one of the best sites in torrent search.

Download Torrent Toolbar for Internet Explorer

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Or just Search now for the best and latest torrents links from mininova on left side column of this page.

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How to download torrents?

Steps to free download movies, TV shows, Games, Music through torrent sites like Mininova
Find a torrent program that will suit your needs, the most common clients are uTorrent, Azureus, BitTorrent, or Opera. Follow the instructions on downloading and installing your chosen client.

Go to a torrent site and search for a file you want to download(Isohunt, Torrentz, Pirate Bay) is an example). You can also search for best quality torrents through the search engine on left side of this page, just add the word Torrent to your search.

Once you have found the desired file on the torrent site, click the "Download This Torrent". You will be asked to save the file or would be given "Open with" option. Open the file with your bittorrent client.

The download will start automatically. You will now observe that downloading of torrent will start taking place in background.

Personally I feel that Mininova is best torrent source and utorrent is best bittorent seeding client.

Also see How do i increase mininova download speed ? How to increase torrent download speed?

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Torrent, Peer, Seed, Leech, Tracker :BitTorrent Terminology

BitTorrent Terminology

What is Torrent ?
A torrent can mean either a .torrent metadata file or all files described by it, depending on context. The torrent file contains metadata about all the files it makes downloadable, including their names and sizes and checksums of all pieces in the torrent. It also contains the address of a tracker that coordinates communication between the peers in the swarm. Torrents can be downloaded from any of the top torrent sites.

What is swarm?
Together, all users sharing a torrent are called a swarm. Six peers and two seeds make a swarm of eight.

What is peer in torrents?
A peer is one instance of a BitTorrent client running on a computer on the Internet that you connect to and transfer data. Usually a peer does not have the complete file, but only parts of it, however, 'peer' can be used to refer to any participant in the swarm (in this case, also known as a 'client').

What is Seed is torrentz?
A seed is a peer that has a complete copy of the torrent and still offers it for upload. The more seeds there are, the better the chances are for completion of the file.

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What is Leech is torrentz?
A leech is usually a peer who has a negative effect on the swarm by having a very poor share ratio - in other words, downloading much more than they upload. Most leeches are users on asynchronous internet connections who do not leave their BitTorrent client open to seed the file after their download has completed. However, some leeches intentionally hurt the swarm to avoid uploading by using modified clients or excessively limiting their upload speed.
The term leech is also incorrectly used to refer to what should properly be called a peer, a member of the swarm who has not yet downloaded the complete file.

Who is Tracker?
A tracker is a server that keeps track of which seeds and peers are in the swarm. Clients report information to the tracker periodically and in exchange receive information about other clients that they can connect to. The tracker is not directly involved in the data transfer and does not have a copy of the file.

What is meant by availability of torrent ?
(also distributed copies) The number of full copies of the file available to the client. Each seed adds 1.0 to this number, as they have one complete copy of the file. A connected peer with a fraction of the file available adds that fraction to the availability (ie. a peer with 65.3% of the file downloaded increases the availability by 0.653).

What is meant by interested in torrent terms?
Describes a downloader who wishes to obtain pieces of a file the client has. For example, the uploading client would flag a downloading client as 'interested' if that client did not possess a piece that it did, and wished to obtain it.

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From Mininova Fan's Guide.

Who is choked uploader in torrents?
Describes an uploader to whom the client does not wish to upload. An uploading client 'chokes' another client in several situations:

* The second client is a seed, in which case it does not want any pieces (ie. it is completely uninterested)
* The uploading client is already uploading at its full capacity (ie. the value for max_uploads has been reached)

Snubbed
An uploading client is flagged as snubbed if the downloading client has not received any data from it in over 60 seconds.

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Learn more in detail what are torrents?
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What is Bittorrent?
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Bittorent: What and How it works?

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and by some estimates it accounted for approximately 35% of all traffic on the entire Internet in 2002.

The protocol works initially when a file provider makes his/her file (or group of files) available to the network. This is called a seed and allows others, named peers, to connect and download the file. Each peer that downloads a part of the data makes it available to other peers to download. After the file is successfully downloaded by a peer, many continue to make the data available, becoming additional seeds. This distributed nature of BitTorrent leads to a viral spreading of a file throughout peers. As more peers join the swarm, the likelihood of a successful download increases. Relative to standard Internet hosting, this provides a significant reduction in the original distributor's hardware and bandwidth resource costs. It also provides redundancy against system problems and reduces dependence on the original distributor.

Programmer Bram Cohen designed the protocol in April 2001 and released a first implementation on July 2, 2001.It is now maintained by Cohen's company BitTorrent, Inc. There are numerous BitTorrent clients available for a variety of computing platforms. According to isoHunt, the total amount of shared content is currently more than 1.7 petabytes.

Source: Wikipedia

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What is Mininova? Best Bittorrent Source

Mininova is one of the largest BitTorrent index sites. Mininova is the largest torrent search engine and directory on the net. We started in January 2005 as an alternative to the (at that time very popular) SuprNova, which went offline at the end of 2004 due to legal issues.
Our goal is to provide an easy-to-use directory and search engine for all kinds of torrent files. Visitors of Mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this website, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. Scrape data (amount of seeds/leechers) is collected a few times a day.
Note that we try to keep Mininova family-safe, so adult submissions are not allowed.

Source: Mininova

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What are seeds and leechers (peers) in torrents?

Number of seeds and leechers (peers) play an important role in determining the download speed of torrent file. So what exactly is meaning of torrents (bittorrent, utorrent) seeds and leechers?

What are seeds?
A seed is a client that has a complete copy of the data of a certain torrent. Once your BitTorrent client finishes downloading, it will remain open until you click the Finish button (or otherwise close it). This is known as being a seed or seeding.

What are leechers?
A leecher is a client that is currently downloading the data of a torrent. A leecher does not have the complete file, otherwise it would be called a seed.

Conclusion:
Seeds have the complete file and are actively sharing ... peers are downloading the file and have part of it and usually are sharing pieces also ... high numbers of each are best for speed ... low numbers of seeds and high peers will make it slow .. low numbers on each will make it slow ......

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Caution:
If a file has 0 seeders or a vast amount more leechers/peers than seeders then it is a risk of a virus, if possible it is best to view any comments associated with the file first. Don't be fooled by torrents with more or most seeds and peers.

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Leech:
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an egoistic person who downloads a file using P2P technology, and who does NOT share (enough) with others when in possession of the complete file, reducing it's Availability. Normally in BitTorrent, it is polite and considerate to leave your connection open long after you finish downloading to seed - so that other peers in the swarm, who do NOT yet have the complete file yet, benefit from you sharing, as you did benefit from others sharing when you originally downloaded the torrent. Some share more, some share less, but a leech is somebody who closes their connection as soon as they have downloaded the complete file. In the long run, your total Share Ratio (Tools > Statistics > Transfers Tab) should always be >1.000!








Seed:
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a peer who has 100% of the torrent and is only uploading to other peers. Seed is also used as a verb, as in "I'm going to be seeding this file overnight", meaning leave open and available for other users to download. Usually, a person with the whole file is a 'seed', while someone with a partial amount is a peer. Remember that a seed is not a file server. We're not talking about "magic seeds" here, so get any idea like that out of your mind. Connecting to more seeds does not necessarily mean that you'll finish downloading any faster. If you don't connect to all the seeds in a swarm, or even if you don't connect to any seeds, it does not mean Azureus is doing anything wrong. For any random torrent, you might download faster when connected only to 5 other peers and no seeds than you might with some other random torrent while connected to 50 seeds and no other peers. Seeding torrents improves your Share Ratio.

So, go ahead enjoy the file-sharing experience with Mininova after having a good knowledge about what are leechers and seeds in torrentz?
Which country downloads the most torrents
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Is downloading torrent files from Mininova illegal?

Is torrent illegal? Legal or not I know many of us just like to free download movies, TV shows and other stuff as torrents. Here is the official take on this sticky question:-
"No, torrent files are not copyrighted, so this is allowed. However, opening a torrent file in your BitTorrent client may start the process of downloading (and possibly uploading) copyrighted content. Depending on the circumstances, such as the content in question and the country you're living in, this might be illegal. In some countries, it is illegal to download and upload copyrighted material. In this case, make sure that you only download unlicensed content via BitTorrent. In some other countries, it is allowed to download copyrighted material, as long as you don't upload. If this is the case, we advise you to use the BitThief client. To be on the safe side, we advise you not to download any copyrighted content at all."

This is the official take of Mininova, so its is advisable to play safe and think before you do it. Finally it depends on you what you want to download?

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