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Torrent files are downloaded using the program BitTorrent: http://bittorrent.com/download.html
It's a simple P2P system where everybody who downloads also uploads parts to others, so you can distribute large files without using up a lot of bandwidth on your site. It's very easy to use, just install the program, and then click on a link to a .torrent file in your browser.

And the word "torrent" means a huge flow or downfall of something, often water. That's where "torrential rain" comes from, and "BitTorrent" is meant to give the image of huge flow of data to your machine, since a BitTorrent download can be quite fast.

There is also a directory with normal downloads here: http://cerealandmilk.net/iichan/archive/
It's just not linked from the front page, since it's better for us if people use the torrents instead.