I’m not much of a torrent downloader, but occassionally I’ll find a file that is only available through torrents.  I always use one of the BitTorrent clients like Azureus or uTorrent.  I remember reading a while back that Image Shack was starting a torrent downloading website, but I think you have to pay a monthy fee in order to use it.  Torrent2Exe will not do what Image Shacks torrent downloading service does, but it will create an executable that allows you to download the torrent.

In other words, if you don’t have a torrent downloading client like uTorrent, then Torrent2Exe will allow you download torrents.  This is good for people who don’t know anything about torrents yet.  Personally, I’d still rather use a torrent client.  I guess a nice thing about this would be hosting the executable on your site.  Say you have a large file that you want others to download and you want to use a torrent, then all you have to do is put the executable file on your site and people can download the file without knowing it’s a torrent.

I’m not quite sure how it goes about getting around port forwarding issues.  That is one of the reasons why I’d rather use a torrent client.  I tested Torrent2Exe out and it seemed like it was having an issue with getting through my routers firewall.  Although, I’m sure there will be updates to this in the future.