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1 BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files. It's extremely easy to use -
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2 downloads are started by clicking on hyperlinks. Whenever more than one
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3 person is downloading at once they send pieces of the file(s) to each other,
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4 thus relieving the central server's bandwidth burden. Even with many
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5 simultaneous downloads, the upload burden on the central server remains quite
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6 small, since each new downloader introduces new upload capacity.
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