What is BitTorrent in Plain English?

BitTorrent is a program you download. It is similar to a peer-to-peer file sharing service. Basically it goes like this: You download the installer. You get the link to a file that ends in .torrent and enter that URL into your browser (preferably Internet Explorer). This opens the BitTorrent download window. It starts downloading the file, or episode that you wanted (eg. alias2x01.torrent). As it downloads, it uploads the parts that you have to other people so many people can get it at once. When you've finished downloading the file, you can leave the window open (don't press finish or close the window) and other people can still download from you. This is very much encouraged.

I'm new to all this. How do I download with BitTorrent???

First we need to download and install a BitTorrent client

Official client 3.3
CODE
http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html

Experimental client 3.2.1b-2
CODE
http://ei.kefro.st/projects/btclient

TheShad0w Experimental S-5.8.3
CODE
http://home.elp.rr.com/tur

Azureus 2.0.3.0
CODE
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

burst! RC5d
CODE
http://krypt.dyndns.org:81/torrent/download.phtml
BT++ 0.5.4 alpha [code]http://btplusplus.sourceforge.net

Shareaza 1.8.9.22
CODE
http://www.shareaza.com

Nova Torrent 0.2.0
CODE
http://blackflaw.dyndns.org

SimpleBT 0.1.9
CODE
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplebt