how bit torrent works

Bit torrent is currently pretty popular way to download, besides this, there is PT as well.

the advantage using bit torrent:

• It is using peer-to-peer networking to do the file serving.
• It contains the file information that checks if the file is corrupted.
• It encourages people to upload their file, then people can download faster and share the portion that other client doesn’t have.
• Torrent is open-sourced.

there will be a tracking server that keeps tracks all the people who downloaded the file, and they can make the file download faster when peer work together.