It is the mission of Take5 to provide to its users the most confidential, helpful and reliable Bittorrent service.

BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet. With an installed base of over 160 million clients worldwide, BitTorrent technology has turned conventional distribution economics on its head. The more popular a large video, audio or software file, the faster and cheaper it can be transferred with BitTorrent. The result is a better digital entertainment experience for everyone.

BitTorrent is a protocol (a set of rules and description of how to do things) allowing you to download files quickly by allowing people downloading the file to upload (distribute) parts of it at the same time. BitTorrent is often used for distribution of very large files, very popular files and files available for free, as it is a lot cheaper, faster and more efficient to distribute files using BitTorrent than a regular download.

In order to access this rich medium of files, you require a bittorrent client (software) to handle the bittorrent (torrent) files. If you do not have or are unsure about a bittorrent client, please visit our help page.

Take5movies.com is the front end of a torrent crawler (application which collects information) which indexes and links the most popular movie torrents on the net. The process involves the crawler monitoring various download variables to improve the user experience.

The crawler checks for:

Swarm speed - Ensuring the fastest speeds possible

File name - Reducing redundancy and improving human readability

File type - Efficiently organizing available files

Viruses - The crawler runs a virus scanner on its virtualized test environment for every file (a service unique to Take5)

If, after completion, the variables of the crawler are met, an entry is written in the database. This links Take5Movies.com to the torrent. If the torrent takes too long or contains viruses, all data is discarded. In the event of the latter, the virtual machine is recreated. Because there are often multiple torrents with the same files, Take5 renames torrents to test for speed. If Take5 encounters torrents with similar data, it will only retain the fastest torrent.

Essentially, Take5 is a website that provides a managed bittorrent solution that is highly specialized for movies.