BitTorrent? Yes Please.

Here at Jiminy Christmas, it's not all fun and games. Sometimes I want to help.

For those of you who haven't been introduced to the useful, wonderful and highly illegal world of BitTorrent, well, you're missing out.

For the uninitiated, BitTorrent is basically the big brother of older P2P file sharing sites such as Napster and KaZaA. With these sites, you had one self contained program that served as your search engine and allowed you to download files.

Well, welcome to free stuff v2.0! With BitTorrent, you still have a program that downloads everything for you. But as far as searching goes, you're able to download torrents (the files that contain the data that will later become your movie, tv show, application) from literally hundreds of sites. But how does it work!?

Gizmodo, part of the Gawker media network and featured on my required reading list, has a great "how-to" guide on everything you ever wanted to know about BitTorrent. You can find it here.

As for the photo, that's Omar from HBO's The Wire. Certified bad ass.