Download Article Explore this Article parts. Tips and Warnings. Related Articles. Article Summary. Author Info Last Updated: May 25, Part 1. There are a variety of websites that list torrents. Some are more reliable than others. There are two main types of torrent trackers: public trackers and private trackers. Public trackers are available to anyone. These are the sites you will find when doing a web search for torrent trackers. Because of their public nature, many torrents are tracked by copyright holders, and downloading them can result in action from your internet service provider.
Private trackers require invites. These sites are not accessible until you have been invited by another member. They often have requirements, such as sharing an equal amount of what you download. Private trackers are much less likely to result in cease and desist letters from copyright holders. Most public trackers have every new show, movie, album, and game available, as well as popular old files.
Use popular shorthand for finding the file you want. Download a well-populated torrent. The speed at which you can download a torrent file is determined by the number of seeders available. A seeder is a torrent user that has the entire file available for downloading. Most torrent sites allow you to sort search results by the number of seeders. Look for files with a large number of seeders. Not only will you download it faster, but it is less likely that the file is fake or infected with a virus.
The number of leechers will affect your download speed as well. A leecher is a user that is downloading, but is not currently seeding. A leecher becomes a seeder when the full file has been downloaded. If there are significantly more leechers than seeders, the amount of bandwidth you receive will be lower, resulting in slower downloads. Choose a torrent with a good size versus quality. This is especially important for video files.
Because compression can affect quality, smaller files will often look and sound significantly poorer than the same video with a larger size. On the flipside, downloading a larger file can take significantly longer depending on your connection. Read as many comments as possible to determine if other users feel that the quality of the file is good and worth your time.
Some trackers have a rating system which allows users to vote on if the file is good or not. Download a magnet link if available. These files are slightly different than a standard torrent file. They match content based on a unique identifier that can then be accessed without the use of central trackers. Make sure that you can run the content. Torrents can be used to transfer any file type.
Because of this, the file you download may be one that you are not familiar with. Each email listed the title of the movie in question and demanded that I remove the files and stop downloading or I will be disconnected. I have stopped downloading and removed the PSP sharing software Vuze from my computer but can they my ISP or the movie distributor see if I have actually deleted the movies off of my computer or personal shared network media drive? I understand how the ISP sees what I am doing but how did the movie distributor know I downloaded one of their movies?
Do they upload the torrent themselves and watch to see who downloads it? There are a lot of activities that use a lot of bandwidth, are all of them going to be disallowed? If so, I might as well kill myself now. Afterall, they are almost up my butt. Im very sorry for posting here but i am completely out of ideas!!
I have a question, is it legal for a comcast internet tech to tell me i have to install something on my computer that in turn erased all my bookmarked pages that i use for reference for work?
Well, as soon as it was finished installing I imediatly opened google crome to start my work writing ebooks on political topics. To my dismay, ALL of my reference matirial I had spent months looking for and bookmarking was gone!! No bookmarks!! I called the service center, they sent out a tech guy to my place again. He told me that he was not sure why they make people install this software because people are unhappy about it usually.
He also told me that other people have had the same problem before and that there is nothing they can do about it. This is unacceptable to me!! It has ruined my focus and direction associated with my writing as I now have absolutely no references!!
Please someone tell me this is illegal so i can put a stop to this kind of guided misfortune!! Thank you! Just wanted to thank you for this simple, clear and concise post on downloading!
It really helped me to understand this topic. I really appreciate it! I became instantly addicted with torrent downloading when i first found BitLord. I constantly downloaded discographies and many movies and games. With all of this foolish downloading came the most unexpected consequence: a copyright notice.
When you download via a torrent, your IP number appears in a list of uploaders and downloaders. This list shows up in the torrent program of everyone sharing the files with that torrent. The owner of the copyright or a proxy just has to download that torrent to see the IP numbers of all the people sharing that file. They can determine which ISP you are using to share the file. They then send those IP numbers to their lawyers who get a court order to get the ISP to tell them who is downloading that file using that IP number.
Quite possibly, yes. On charter or any other ISP. Illegal is illegal, regardless of whether or not you get caught. Thank you for writing a tech blog that filled in some blanks re: why my ISP has a hard-on for uTorrent and NOT being completely full of s!
Our proudest moment was watching Star Wars Episode I a few weeks before it was in the theaters. So what if the movie sucked? It saved everyone 10 bucks and it proved that if we wanted something, we could get it. And they did. If machines could get purple hearts, that box has a couple and is quite sick with adware as I write.
This led to a split, the product of which is YourBittorrent. When it comes to reliability, you can count on Demonoid. The site with over 10 million users has over , torrent files and provides torrents for movies, TV series, music, books, applications, and games.
Our research shows that Demonoid has more movies and TV series than other files, followed by music. RARBG is a popular torrent site that was established in Our research shows that the popular torrent site that provides torrent files and magnet links has more movies than other types of files. This torrent site was established in and has since grown to host over , torrents. It allows users to torrent movies, TV series, apps, and documentaries amongst other types of files.
While many popular torrent sites ban releases from EZTV due to its history, many have found its torrents to be of great quality. YIFY movies are known to have excellent video quality at the smallest file sizes. Thank you for the list.
I recommend using a VPN to bypass the geo-block in Australia. Very nice and comprehensive list. Regretfully some are not working in our region. I will check with a VPN. I recommend that you familiarize yourself with the Kodi Add-ons setup guide on Cooltechzone, which contains not only instructions for installing modules, but also brief reviews of more than 10 popular add-ons.
If someone else does not know about the dangers of torrents, you can familiarize yourself with the problem and its solution in detail on the page dedicated to using a VPN to anonymize torrenting The essence of the danger is that downloading files using P2P technology implies possible copyright infringement. The problem is aggravated by the fact that by using BitTorrent clients you not only download but also distribute legally protected content to others.
Most countries in the world have administrative or criminal penalties for distributing copyrighted material. Cooltechzone is against any violation of the law. The published practices are applicable if you know you are downloading non-copyrighted material but want to be extra secure.
Surfshark is the perfect VPN for its value for money. Only this service supports all the necessary privacy protection technologies for torrenting at such a low price with a subscription for 2 years or more. P2P is allowed on all servers of the provider. This allows you not to worry about choosing a location.
You just need to install Surfshark on any computer, tablet, or smartphone, connect to the automatically suggested location and safely visit torrent sites and use the BitTorrent client. Kill Switch technology is available in all apps. This allows you to fully protect traffic even on an unstable Internet connection.
NordVPN has a large number of positive reviews from users who often download shared files. They give positive reviews about the speed of servers, the degree of protection and security, and they trust the No Logs policy.
ExpressVPN is the perfect defender for any kind of internet activity. It is a true premium VPN service, known for its crystal-clear reputation and time-tested over 10 years of experience nature. A feature of the service is the use of diskless servers that guarantee your privacy since they do not have a hard disk where other providers can store logs.
Plus excellent jurisdiction on the BVI. This makes ExpressVPN the most secure and trustworthy provider for torrenting activity. Despite its high status, using the service is as easy as using other VPNs. A convenient app set up system and 2-click launch make ExpressVPN a convenient assistant for users of all skill and experience levels. The more visitors a torrent site has, the more downloads it has, the easier and faster it is to find and download the desired file.
Therefore, the best torrent tracker is a site with over 20 million monthly visitors. I specifically highlighted this indicator for all 25 listed sites. This will make it easier to choose the best torrent site for your personal use. This technology helps to link 2 or more computers into one network, where each of the participant computers is connected to all other participants. The Torrent more correctly to say BitTorrent works based on this technology. However, there is no central server where the file is stored.
Torrent sites do not store any content. They store hashed links to groups of network participants who have the desired file. Let's say there is a file on one of the computers.
Other computers see it and can start downloading it without any control server. As soon as one of the other members of the P2P network has downloaded at least part of the file, it can also share with others. It is even easier for the third party to download this file since it can download it from two computers at once and so on. There can be several thousand such participants seeds. The more seeds, the higher the download speed.
Any member of the community organized by the site can, on their own initiative, share their own files for download and post a link to themselves. Thus, the number of torrents on a particular torrent tracker is equal to the number of downloads that community volunteers post for public use and report this to the site.
I just love YIFY! People sometimes criticize YTS torrent site for low movie quality but when you're watching it on your laptop's screen, it doesn't matter, and for 40gb files there are other torrent sites okay. Grindhouse Torrents, for example, you can look for them here. As for vpn, Nordvpn is quite okay. Paid services are always better. Always use vpn services if you don't want to get fined for illegal content downloading.
Especially if you're from Germany or the USA. It's not a joke! Use free services like HideMe if you don't want to pay for premium ones and you're ok with traffic limits. I went with TorrentDownloads. At first, I was quite happy with the services and the opportunities, also the lack of ads and unnecessary pop-ups made a choice for me. But recently I started experiencing troubles with the speed, the download wasn't performing at all. Currently using The Pirate Bay as I did originally. Thanks a lot!
It's not so often you came across a solid useful article. It's tiring to look for a decent torrent site on Google, so it's good there are people who checked everything for you in advance. I've been using x for quite a while, it's great for downloading an occasional tv series or a movie. I'd also add rutracker to this list, it's a Russian torrent site, it's really good. Lots of content, movies etc usually have English audiotracks and subtitles.
I usually used to pick any big public torrent site due to the safety and reliability. As for the other ones, I tried to use torrentz2 and lime torrents but the constant pop ups made me stop doing it.
Using kickass torrents is quite comfortable, I have various services to compare to. I think X is the best for me and provides a safe igg download I mostly use this torrent for. Someone mentioned eztv torrents but it's mostly for tv and movies, so it's not my cup of tea either.
When your salary is huuuuge, you don't really need torrents, I guess. I'm a poor student and watching an occasional tv show is my only joy in life. I've changed a couple of torrent services, and Kickass Torrents is probably my favorite. The first one is open source and not commercial, so no ads which is highly appreciated. Though, I like Kickass more cause of the range of choice. I still remember trying to find the most suitable torrent service and idk why I was kinda struggling with that.
Thanks for this list, very helpful. I'm using Kickass in most cases, one of the best torrent sites for me, everything seemed fine so far. Constantly have unlimited access to content, that's all I need. I've always used torrents without signing up, can't say ads disturbed me much. I think I'm going to check out Pass The Popcorn torrent, there are lots of new movies and I can't go to the cinema because of the pandemic. I mostly use torrents to watch anime and movies.
The greater the number of seeders, the healthier the torrent and the better the chance of higher speeds. A ration of high seeders to low leechers will result in faster file sharing and downloading. Modern firewall software should enable BitTorrent connections. This either happens silently, or by alerting you with a pop-up that you need to react to. If this doesn't work, you can set the BitTorrent client as an exception in your firewall software. Check the firewall's documentation on how to do this.
You may also need to configure your internet router to allow BitTorrent access. This is usually configured through a feature called Port Forwarding.
The router documentation should have specific information on this. While internet speed is important for downloading BitTorrent files, the speed and performance of your PC is key to success. A slower, older computer with less RAM and storage, and inefficient processor, isn't going to download as quickly as a newer model. Faster SSD storage can also help you to gain a torrent speed increase. But an unlimited upload rate impacts on the download speed.
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