BitTorrent For Dummies

This work helps you share your home movies or download new software, and find safe files to download, create your own, and use BitTorrent for business. There's certainly a torrent of interest in BitTorrent! But while it enables you to download all kinds of cool files and to distribute your own creative efforts, it also carries some risks. This book not only shows you how to acquire BitTorrent, but also how to use it without picking up worms, viruses, and lawsuits. It helps you discover how to: select, download, and install a BitTorrent client; manage and store files you download; choose software for making movies and audio files; understand the legal risks of file sharing; and, trim business costs with BitTorrent.