Going to the movies is fun; you can make a day of it, have lunch or dinner and spend a good percentage of a week’s salary. Getting DVD’s (or videos) from the shop can also add $20 a week to the budget. But there are other ways to get your entertainment.
You already pay for your Internet connection and these days, the deals range into the 10’s of Gigabytes per month for the equivalent of 2 – 3 weeks of DVD’s – unless you have a compulsive downloader in the family, it is unlikely oyou will be using all that capacity each month.
One technology in use involves what are called Torrent files. This is a Peer-to-Peer technology, where multiple Internet users provide access to particular files from their machine and the Torrent software reaches out and downloads the files from up to fifty or more computers, while simultaneously sending out parts of the files to others.

Torrent programs are available from the torrent sites, but a few of the best are uTorrent, BitTorrent and Azureus.
Torrents can allow you to download at a good percentage of your Broadband speed and the Torrent sites offer a mind boggling array of files, including games, programs, music and movies.
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