BitLord

BitLord is a torrent streaming service that uses peer-to-peer file transfer to download data. It's a direct competitor to well-known services like uTorrent, Limewire and Frostwire. Torrents have a bit of an infamous reputation of being the favored method of downloading pirated software. Napster is a famous example of a torrenting program used to download copyrighted music and videos. One obtains a torrent file by downloading it directly from web sites like The Pirate Bay or online forums. Once downloaded, the torrent file can be opened by an application, like BitLord. The torrent file tells BitLord how to find servers and subsequently file locations on the Internet. The main benefit of torrents over traditional point-to-point downloading is that the speed is dramatically faster since the user is downloading from many sources at once. Data transfer is allocated to the sources at the same time, at which point the sources simultaneously send different parts of a file. It's like an online assembly line for creating a file on a user's hard drive.