Glossary of Bit Torrent Terms

This list explains terms used when discussing BitTorrent clients, and in particular the BitTorrent protocol used by these clients.

Famous quotes containing the words bit, torrent and/or terms:

    The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Mixed in one mighty torrent did appear,
    Some flying from the thing they feared, and some
    Seeking the object of another’s fear;
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    I’ve never been on good terms with God, but now I’m becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)