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SOS Children is the world’s largest charity for orphans. SOS Children UK in collaboration with Wikimedia has released the latest series of Wikipedia selection for schools in DVD format. The organization has embraced BitTorrent for this release. The previous releases were in DVD format and were distributed offline. This latest release is equivalent to 20 volume encyclopedia with 34,500 pictures, 20 million words 5500+ articles. This is aimed for children in the age of 8-17.

If you are planning to download the DVD for you own purpose you can do that by using a BitTorrent client. BitTorrent is a popular P2P file sharing technology which works on give-and-take principle. The more you share the greater your download speed will be. The file is pretty big for Indian broadband speeds. It is 2.9 GB. So once you finish downloading you can keep your computer and the client on, so that other users can download it. This would help increase the chances and speeds of people who really need them. This would be extremely helpful for people on slow connections.

3 simple steps to download :

1. If you don’t have a torrent client then download uTorrent.

2. Once you have downloaded and installed the BitTorrent client download the torrent file. It requires a good 3GB of free space even for downloading the file. Please make sure you have the space before you download the torrent file.

3. Keep your computer, connection and the client on once you are done with your download.

4. If you don’t have the client and don’t want to install it, you can download it via  your browser itself with the help of BitLet. Bitlet converts the torrent into an exe file and helps you download it. Once the download is finished you can use the exe file.

Please help SOS Children in this noble initiative.  Spread the word and help the world.

via Torrentfreak.com