First thing you should know is that if your upload speed is high, it drastically increases your download speed as well.
When you are downloading/uploading the file, you are referred to as the 'leecher'. Once your download is complete, you will see that your Bittorent client will keep on uploading the file, since downloading takes much less time than uploading. Once you have completely uploaded the file, you are known as a 'seeder'. The more the seeders on a torrent, the faster the downloads. That's why its called P2P (peer-to-peer), so you download and share at the same time!
Leachers don't upload the file as they are downloading it. If their connection is slow uploads probably slow it further. Peers seed the torrent whilst they are downloading.
you need a torrents downloading software, such as Utorrents
Downloading torrents itself is not inherently piracy, but it can be used for illegal activities such as downloading copyrighted material without permission. It is important to be mindful of the legal implications of downloading content through torrents and ensure that you have the necessary permissions to download and share the files.
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Torrenting itself is not illegal in the UK, but downloading or sharing copyrighted content without permission is illegal. It is important to use torrents responsibly and respect copyright laws to avoid legal consequences.
Depends how big and what it is..
First off, you can play Starcraft by downloading the torrents. If you have a friend who has Starcraft, upload his number then you can download free, legal copies of Starcraft (10 spawns from a single CD).
Depending on your ISP and service plan, you receive a certain amount of bandwidth. This is the speed at which you can download or upload files to/from the internet. You cannot download or upload faster than this speed. Downloading data using torrents implicitly uses bandwidth, meaning downloads through other programs, or by other people on the network, will be slower.
If it is from your torrent downloading, then it would most likely be due to your use of upload bandwidth in your bittorrent client. Capping upload in your bittorrent client to 80% of your overall upload capacity should resolve that issue. See the link below for more information and links to help.
VuzeWiki and Torrentfreaks provide legal music torrents. In addition, sites like legal torrents and SXSW also offer additional avenues for downloading legal torrents.
USE Internet Download Manager For downloading files\ AND Vuze for downloading torrents
No, Bit Defender is not necessary for downloading torrents. Bit Defender protects you computer from viruses, ad-ware, malware, etc. It's certainly recommended by not necessary.