The user’s torrent application will in its turn start to share pieces that you have downloaded with other users. The torrent application will now grab pieces of the file from the other computers and put them together into one file. This application will try to find other people trying to download the same file. The next thing that happens is that the person that downloaded the file opens it with an application designed to handle this kind of file (more about these applications later). This file is very small and contains only a list of the files that are to be downloaded and some other stuff used by the user’s torrent application. The first thing that happens is that a user downloads a. Without going all geeky, we’ll now try to explain how torrents work.