Downloading Movies and TV Shows: How to Use Torrents

It's all magic
Yeah. Yeah. Just show me what to do already
Some very important things to remember

There’s actually a bit of a reason that nerds are largely the ones who download these things. It’s not uncommon for viruses to be distributed via torrents. However, there is a way to be safe about it. The file information page (from step 6) often contains comments. These people will leave comments saying “thanks for the great download” or “I wish a %&@-ing curse upon your house for the virus”. If it says the latter, theeeen avoid that file.
An additional reason that nerds usually do this is because of the weird file formats that are used to compress the videos to retain the high quality. Windows Media Player does not recognize many of these by default. But here’s the quick and easy fix: download the K-Lite Codec pack. It equip Windows Media Player with the ability to play a huge number of additional video formats. I’d recommend the Standard package. It’s probably overkill for most people, but since you’re starting to download torrents, you never know when you’ll run into that one weird video format.
Cool Little Graph

You will notice this cool little graph in the top right corner of your screen. You may drag this to a different location. It’s a feature of BitComet. It tells you what your download(blue) and upload(yellow) rates are. Keep in mind that if you’ve found a torrent that is downloading fast, it will be taking up a huge about of your internet pipe-line(bandwidth). While this is downloading, attempting to do anything beyond just regular web browsing will seem to move at a snails pace. That’s good, because that means your download is coming at an optimal speed!