Originally Posted by MD11Fr8Dog

Passport is just a small portable inexpensive harddrive made by Western Digital. Bittorrent is a download process to allow you to d/l (and u/l) large files. I used a program called Azureus at first, but now I use Transmission on my Mac.

The way it works is you find the bittorrent file for the program, movie, MP3, etc that you want to d/l (I usually start at Piratebay and Google). You download that small file that Azureus uses to then start downloading the file you want. Many movies files are in the 700MB range, which means that they were compressed to fit on a single CD. It does not affect how it is viewed on my laptop! I store them on my Passport as opposed to on my Mac harddrive, but easily drag and drop them onto my Mac for easy viewing using Front Row on my Mac. The 700MB on a CD also works great for viewing on the DVD/CD player on the back of the front seat headrest of the truck for my 4 yr old daughter to watch her favorite Disney movies while traveling!

You can google about bittorrent to learn more about the process.