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what are they and what Do I need to download movies this way?

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google “bit torrent” & read the result.

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BitTorrent (BT) is a P2P file-sharing program that accepts these Torrent files. The torrent files just have information in them which tells what to download, and from where. The “where” being other computers who are sharing file(s) you want.

You need a BT client to download files (from other computers which also have a BT client installed and running). You pull parts of the file(s) from those other uses.

2 BT clients that I like are:

Shareaza - www.shareaza.com

Shadow’s Experimental BT Client - http://bt.degreez.net/
http://www.slyck.com/bt.php?page=2

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Why aree they so slow? When I try to download them from www.isohunt.com the say it will take over 200 hours and I have a cable modem

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I too have a cable modem, but that generally has no bearing on how fast other people’s connections upload to me ;-) If the people with the particular file you want have slow internet, or are being saturated with requests, then you’re going to get a file slowly.

I suppose you could limit your cable modem’s upload speed. Generally speaking you should set an upload limit that’s around 80% of your total upload speed.