How can i start torrenting, and what is the most reliable/safest way?

To get started, download utorrent from www.utorrent.com , its a tiny download and you even have the option of not installing it and running it portably. Once thats installed/started up, go to the top right corner of the screen and you will see a search box. Next to that is a magnifying gl icon. Click that to select different torrent sites to search on. Simply type what you want to find in the box and hit enter. uTorrent will automatically handle corrupt files for you, and as someone above mentioned torrents are LEGAL, but it is illegal to share copyrighted stuff on it. You can legally download linux distributions for example.