Ira Goldklang: http://www.trs-80.com/

[Bryan Pope]

And thusly Jules Richardson spake:
> 
> I should go look this up, but does bittorrent involve downloading and
> installing some dodgy client software that's full of spyware, means you
> have to open all sorts of ports through the firewall, lets others see
> the contents of your hard drives etc. etc. ? 
> 
> Presumably not as it seems to be adopted by intelligent people (rather
> than the warez brigade)... maybe I'm just getting old and all this new-
> fangled technology scares me :-)
> 

There are open-source clients - One I use that works really well is 
Azureus, available at http://azureus.sourceforge.net

The range of ports you need to open up are 6881 - 6889, TCP.  Or if you 
have a router, have these ports forwarded to the computer running the 
BitTorrent client.

Cheers,

Bryan Pope