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John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Wed Oct 20 08:57:12 CDT 2004


At 08:31 AM 10/20/2004, Computer Collector E-Mail Newsletter wrote:
>How do you open these files?  I'm not familiar with this "torrent" thing...
>tried renaming them to just .asf for Windows Media Player 10, but got some
>error message about the wrong codec or whatever.

First you need to install the BitTorrent client.  It talks
to the peer-to-peer network.  The .torrent file is just a link,
it's not the movie.  Once the client is installed, if you open
a .torrent link, it'll connect to the network and download
the file.  Then you'll be in WMP-land.

- John




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