Download the version that best suits you. Our BitTorrent Web and Classic clients for Mac computers are available in one convenient location. All the fragments are hosted by other computer users connected to the torrent network, such as yourself. Although the word “torrent” has been long associated with illegal piracy and forbidden files, the torrent file itself is simply an instruction set of where to find those file fragments, so they can come together to form a whole. Torrent, named after BitTorrent, is a file sharing protocol which allows files to be fragmented and downloaded from multiple sources called peers.