Hi Phil,

Torrent is a file sharing facility. This means that not only do you get 
to download files from other people's computer, but they get to download 
files from your computer. Depending on the specific application you use, 
you can usually turn off the ability for others to download files from 
your computer, but this is discouraged since the whole premise of this 
is a collective sharing among all the computers running torrent 
software. It should not share files that are your private files, only 
files that you have downloaded yourself, or files that you specifically 
mark as being shareable. What likely happened is that as soon as you 
started downloading the file to your computer, it became available for 
others to start downloading it from yours.

Russ Poffenberger
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On 10/19/2010 10:39 PM, Phillip Williams wrote:
>   I recently gained a high(er) speed connection and decided to give it
> a workout downloading an old movie in a bit torrent file. Since I
> didn't have any torrent software installed, I downloaded a program
> called "Final Torrent". I have to admit I didn't research options,
> just grabbed the first program I found.
>   It seems to be downloading ok (15-30kps) but I noticed after about
> 400Mb were downloaded it also showed around 80Mb uploaded. What on
> earth could it be uploading? It's not like there's any private info on
> this pc or security issues as this is a newly formatted machine that's
> pretty well stripped down to bare basics.
>    I know I should read up on bit torrent since I've never used it
> before but I thought Ya'll might have a quick answer. If it matters,
> the torrent is an .avi file.
>   TIA
> -Phil-
>
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