bittorrent?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Trevor Smith wrote:
> What is bittorrent? Does it essentially provide the same service as a gnutella 
> client would? Is there some reason (for an end user) why it is better? Or is 
> it a different category of program altogether.
> 
> 

It's purpose is to speed downloads of large files (like Linux ISOs) 
through cooperative serving. At a -very- basic level, any download is 
broken into chunks, and clients offer themselves as alternate servers 
for the chunks they already have.

They probably describe themselves better than I do.

http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/introduction.html