Rest assured that torrenting does not equate to piracy. It does, however, provide a very convenient way to do it! The torrent protocol is just a clever transmission method for users to download files more easily.
Image credit: Pirate Bay main page. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and European users agree to the data transfer policy. I feel you, bro. Recently I just download a movie from a torrent site and my relative who signed the contract with the internet provider got a warning via email… It was a scary experience to me since I have never known that downloading a movie via torrent is illegal. Honestly speaking, that was not the first time I download a file via torrent but I was wondering why only this time I got a warning???
The ISPs are stepping up their effort to combat piracy. They are simply gathering evidence and catch you red-handed. A word of caution: be very careful what you download. If you are downloading blockbuster movies via torrent, most likely they are illegal. Actually false only illegal to use torrents if u make a profit off of it. Not to download anything shared. Only person who can be charged is uploader if had not paid to access or view product however if had paid and uploaded but say someome bought a dvd or blurae and uploaded copy without making any profit then technically that is their legal right as they purchased that copy.
One could argue payong streaming or cable shows are on gives same rights. Really comes down to if peoppe are smart enough about the specifics of laws. They once tried with me and i proved it was shared copy someone had bought and paid for thus couldnt charge me.
Obviously greedy companys do try to go after people illegally and if people arent educated theu cant fight back. I got the same warning. It was for a brand new movie that was still in theaters. I believe since it was a copy of a screening for audiences before theater release the production company kept track of who was downloading it and sharing it. Scared the crap out of me and I talked to a guy from the firm that handled legislation for the production company.
Needless to I deleted all the movies I downlaoded that day and the Torrent site. Kind of scared to use UTorrent again…. Many of you keep telling that you got a warning. If torrentz is illegal why use it. If you feel its legal then simply use it. First gather some information about it and study it. I have a question. I recently downloaded a bunch of software via torrents thinking that it was fine and that it was really stealing. After discussing it with some friends I realized I was wrong.
Do you think that if I delete all the software it will be ok. Please respond. You have already broken the law, but to be honest…considering the mass amount of pirates out there no one will even care. Deleting them would most certainly help your case, but as I said, there is no case to begin with.
Law enforcement has enough problems as it is with millions of people illegally downloading content on a regular basis. You will be fine. To shut down a website, the government has to go through a lot of bureaucracy.
I prefer it that way. The less the government can interfere, the better it is for all of us, even non-pirates. Piracy can be solved through private solutions. Torrent sites are next to impossible to shut down. Governments have raided and seized all the computers and stuff at a location where the website was at. The torrent website was thus shutdown, and it was open once again in less than 48hrs.
These sites do a lot of backups of their systems and can get a new location for their servers quickly, but they still have to buy new computers and get everything setup on them, before the website can be up and running again. Whereas others, such as Mininova. The site is hosted in the Netherlands, and decided to comply with their law that was passed They were shutdown and moved several times before this.
It is illegal in most jurisdictions. Untaxed cigarettes are illegal, yet people can still find them. I recently tried to download a game not by torrent and it gave me threats on my computer. Should I switch to torrent? I scan regularly about once a week with MalwareBytes Anti-malware. All this stuff seems very important and it seems very confusing for me. Now, I hope you are aware that downloading games is also illegal.
But if you insist. For example, if there are two identical files, but one has a million downloads and the other has a thousand, then maybe you should go with the one with the millions.
Hope this helped. Well it is illegal if someone copied it and made it free, but some games from the original publisher are free. Yes, there is a surge in FTP free-to-play games, however they have to keep their servers running, too. For this reason, they restrict you significantly until you purchase in-game privileges. I like it. At least someone will try. I got one warning via a letter from my cable provider, I then switched to Verizon FiOS as my provider.
I then got a nother warning: however it was a phone call. Three years later I got a guy in a suit and tie knocking on my door with a list of all the downloads I had done in an amount for me to pay as a lovely fine! Ha ha ha…..! I think Torrent is not illegal, but downloading copyrighted material from torrent is illegal. So buddy, download things that are legal and leave stuffs illegal. No body can monitor them. So downloading copyrighted stuffs through torrents can work in such countries.
Yes this exactly what can happen. Just like people use to buy untaxed cigarettes on the internet, but some states cracked down and forced those buyers to pay taxes, after years.
So it is a real risk. I have been getting warning emails from my ISP Comcast for about 10 years because of my torrent downloads. I have yet to see them take any action against me. Friends uncle is an FBI agent that investigates internet crimes. He said that they are not going after the average citizen who downloads from torrents, but more going after those supplying the illegal content to the torrent sites and those bootlegging and trying to sell the stuff on the street, etc.
I said to him, in light of this new information. I wish to confess to downloading illegal content via torrents, and clapped my writs together in prep.
He laughed and told me that even if he did, it would get thrown out before it made it to court. It would cost the court system over a million dollars to prosecute me and such, even if I said I was guilty and made a written statement to the fact. Interesting anecdote, thanks for sharing.
I too have been downloading for years and have received a few warnings from my ISP from time to time without any other more substantial consequence. Just so that everyone is clear. Downloading copyrighted material is in fact NOT illegal. It is not you responsibility as a downloader to determine if a distributor has a legal right to distribute a copyrighted work. What IS illegal when bit-torrenting, is the distribution a copyrighted product without license to do so.
By default when downloading in a swarm you are uploading, hence distributing the copyrighted product. Aviod identification by this by using an open VPN. A quick google search and 60 minutes of reading up and learning how to use tools such as this will keep you anonymous and keep the torrent market booming.
I actually run through a paid VPN and a open VPN also remote connect to a server that was paid for with bitcoin that has rutorrent on it. Torrent type and variety are also important when choosing which torrent sites to use. Ad Intrusion is also important when deciding what torrent site to use.
If you have to go through 8 ads just to browse for a file, it might be time to find a new torrent site. In our research, there were about popular torrent sites that we decided not to include due to the ad intrusion level. Security is very important when downloading torrents.
After all, there are plenty of shady torrenting platforms on the internet which could compromise your online security. Website: Visit a working Pirate Bay Mirror. Attention: The Pirate Bay is blocked in many countries even mirror sites , so you might need a VPN to change your virtual location and unblock the Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay has been a crowd favorite for many years. However, considering the number of mirrors and blocking attempts, that number may be skewed , and million visits a month is perhaps a bit more accurate.
The Pirate Bay is popular for its large community, which ensures at least one seeder on almost any torrent on the site, no matter the age. We tried downloading obscure titles from even over a decade ago, and we found that there were still happy seeders to help out.
You can also look at our list of Pirate Bay alternatives for more options. RARBG is a large directory of torrents, famous for a very active community of seeders and high-quality torrents. Its library size is decent, and it gets updated often, meaning that you have a high chance of finding new torrents on the site. The only difference is that ad intrusion is more annoying on RARBG, so take that into account when choosing one of the two.
There are a lot of phishing scams going around with RARBG-looking sites, so make sure you learn about secure browsing.
Website: X website. Some people use it to browse for game torrents as well, but from our research, it does look like both RARBG and The Pirate Bay have more torrents in that category, especially for older titles. A few years ago, X was a bad choice for any torrenting, since it was clunky to navigate and it posed a lot of security risks. Since then, it went through an entire site revamp , making it seamless to browse and safer.
For shows and movies, you also have improved browsing functionalities, like searching by award nomination. Mirrors: x. Website: Torrentz2 website. While this is not that big of a torrent site — only amassing million users a month, and unable to sport much of a library for general torrents — Torrentz2 is very good for finding music. Not to mention — any type of browsing options, like searching by album, artist or song would be greatly appreciated.
Second, ad intrusion is minimal and the interface is beautiful. Lastly, classics are readily available on the platform. If you want high-definition episodes of your favourite shows, EZTV is the place to go. We searched for older titles like Two and a Half Men, and it had a decent library of options. We even tried going for more obscure titles, like the British show Midsomer Murders.
EZTV has a large variety of torrents for the new releases in that show, and packages of older episodes. Lifehacker reports that perhaps the most common way for ISPs to fight BitTorrenting is to "throttle" a user's Internet connection, slowing it down or even cutting the connection off.
The practice is most prevalent in Canada, where it's had little effect. ISPs are also known to have fielded requests from copyright enforcers who pressure them to give up an Internet user's contact information, most often to send the offender a warning letter or a subpoena. BitTorrent users can avoid throttling or legal trouble by hooking up to virtual private networks and proxies for their connection online.
In the latter scenario, someone's IP address is re-routed through another one so a BitTorrenter's real IP stays relatively anonymous to the other users they are connecting with. There are also newer piracy sites that subvert peer-to-peer connections altogether, avoiding the inherent risk of linking to someone who could be working for the MPAA.
Torrents listed are verified and can be filtered by category, language, sizes, and time. Around 4 million torrents form the impressive database of zooqle and are accessible for download in a simple and easy to use interface.
The torrents listed are detailed by size, age, number of seeds and leeches. The website presents an elegant and very easy to use interface. Torrentdownloads is another torrent indexer that has survived the test of time and has been around since The website has one of the largest databases of torrents on the net, with over 16 million torrent files.
In fact, back in November , the website was blocked by Google Chrome and Firefox browsers, and by Malwarebytes over safety concerns. According to TorrentFreak , the website operators blamed an affiliate advertiser for the phishing suspicions raised around torrentdownloads, before engaging in taking the necessary measures. The website offers many categories to download from, and counts on community engagement to help prevent the spread of compromised and fake files by allowing users to comment and rate the listed torrents in each category.
The search bar on the website gives users the option to perform an advanced search and narrow results on the basis of category, status, and other criteria. Details about each torrent also help mitigate authenticity concerns, since each torrent is characterized with its uploader name, date, size, number of seeds, and overall health of the link.
MagnetDL is a huge directory of magnet links , which are a popular and practically useful means of peer to peer file sharing. To put it in a nutshell, Magnet links allow electronic files to be referred to without the need for a continuously available swarm of hosts.
They are commonly used to identify files by their content through a cryptographic hash rather than the actual file location and can be created by anyone having the file without the need of a central authority to issue them.
In order to download magnet links from MagnetDL, users should first have a BitTorrent client installed on their computers. The website recommends using uTorrent. Magnet links are characterized by size, upload date, uploader name and reputation on the platform, number of seeders and leechers, info hash, and other information related to the content. Torlock is a torrent index and search engine that has a special focus on movies, TV shows, and series.
The website features a great database of verified torrents on a clean and permanently updated interface. Torlock is known to pay one dollar for each fake link a user would find on its database, as a means to offer a safe and secure database of torrents.
Torlock allegedly has over five million verified torrent files, has been around since and has around 7. Alexa ranks the website as th most popular website in the world. If you are a gamer and like to download torrents then check out our best vpns for gaming guide. The browsing experience, however, is a bit frustrating given the important number of casino pop-ups and ads that manage to launch even with an ad blocker on.
The website along with another portal named Zamunda remained for years as the leading torrenting websites in the European country. Despite a long history of twists and turns, including a regulatory war and an incident of a hack and leak of users IP addresses, another good reason to get a VPN. Read our best VPN guide for more information. ArenaBG is still considered among the most popular torrent sites with over 6 million visitors monthly as of April TorrentGalaxy is one of the newest addition to the torrent landscape , yet the website is enjoying an impressive rise in popularity.
The website wants to offer an easy streaming functionality to set itself apart from most of its competitors, while still retaining the quality and portability of torrenting. Listed torrents that have an available stream are marked, and a simple click on the link opens the streaming page where a visitor is able to view the content he is searching for. ETTV is a torrent site with a massive database of torrent files mainly focusing on TV series and shows.
The website offers users the possibility to sign up for a premium membership option, for a better browsing experience, displaying fully dynamic pages with no caching, no popups or ads among other benefits. ETTV also has a section for books, anime, and music as well, and search result could be filtered easily using the advanced search option. Overall, the website is legit, however, and for many torrents, the number of existing seeds seems to be low as compared to other competitor websites mainly due to the fact that the website is only two years old.
According to SimilarWeb data, around 8 million online users visit the website on a monthly basis. Torrentfunk is a popular torrenting website with an interesting status verification indicator. The website operators implemented various measures to unveil fake torrents and misleading titles, allowing for community engagement through dedicated comment sections for each torrent file.
Launched back in , the website features various torrent files for downloading movies, videos, software, and eBooks among others. In the last couple of months; however, SimilarWeb traffic shows a steady decline in monthly visitors and the website seems to be battling with regulators over a potential shut down. The website supports magnet links, direct download, and even anonymous download options. Despite being a decade old, the website has managed to survive and thrive at a certain point.
Each listed torrent has an information section related to it where users can find the number of seeds and peers, size, category, and the number of times it has been reported for presenting a threat and allows verified users to comment on each torrent.
The interface is minimalist and neat , and the website seems easy to navigate and download content from. In fact, before the usage of such torrents for distributed peers, trackers used to be the only method of finding peers with a certain content to share.
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