{"id":2128,"date":"2006-01-24T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T11:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2006-01-24T11:12:51","modified_gmt":"2006-01-24T11:12:51","slug":"what_is_a_torre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2128","title":{"rendered":"What is a Torrent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,1895,1913683,00.asp\">Patrick Norton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Developed by Bram Cohen as a solution to large-file download bottlenecks&mdash;not to mention the problem of &#8220;leeches,&#8221; people who download files but then don&#8217;t share them as uploads&mdash;BitTorrent is a very effective tool for distributing big files online. And with good reason: BitTorrent works amazingly well to spread out the burden of creating thousands of copies of a file across the clients, or peers, that are downloading the file. That means there&#8217;s no large central server to keep running, or massive bandwidth bills to pay for. It also means we can download, say, a 600MB Linux distro in a few short minutes.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Norton: Developed by Bram Cohen as a solution to large-file download bottlenecks&mdash;not to mention the problem of &#8220;leeches,&#8221; people who download files but then don&#8217;t share them as uploads&mdash;BitTorrent is a very effective tool for distributing big files online. And with good reason: BitTorrent works amazingly well to spread out the burden of creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}