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What is a .TORRENT?
Usually this refers to the small metadata file you receive from the web server (the one that ends in .torrent .)
Metadata here means that the file contains information about the data you want to download, not the data itself.
This is what is sent to your computer when you click on a download link on a website.
You can also save the torrent file to your local system, and then click on it to open the BitTorrent download.
This is useful if you want to be able to re-open the torrent later on without having to find the link again.
To sum up, think of a .TORRENT as a 'fingerprint' of the original file, which someone is seeding, (sharing), from the website, you download the torrent, at which point the CLIENT activates and connects to the TRACKER and the download/upload begins.
