Torrent sites are often hotbeds for malware, ransomware, and intrusive trackers.
Many torrents claiming to be high-definition dual-audio files are actually empty containers or completely different films meant to trick the user into clicking malicious links. Legal and Security Consequences of Public Torrents
Torrenting is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing protocol. Instead of downloading a file from a single server, your torrent client (like qBittorrent or uTorrent) downloads small pieces of the file from many different users (peers) simultaneously.