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does not condone illegal sharing of copyrighted material. While P2P file
sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded
through P2P are indeed copyrighted. Uploading these copyrighted files
puts you at risk of a civil lawsuit in the USA, Canada, Australia, and
the UK. While these lawsuits are often class-action suits, filed against
groups of users who blatantly copy and distribute copyrighted
materials, some lawsuits are harshly targeted at making examples of
individual downloaders. These P2P civil lawsuits are very real, and
whether or not they are successful, they are extreme financial and
emotional burdens on the defendant.
ISP warning:
your ISP may choose to release logs of your
downloading/uploading activity to potential copyright plaintiffs. The
more megabytes you download, the more you risk being sued by copyright
protection groups.
- Demonoid.me
Demonoid is a longtime semi-private community. In the past, members
were held liable for any leeching that their invited friends did in this
community. Demonoid has since moved to an .ME domain, and they have
relaxed their harsh penalties on leechers. Nonetheless, this site is one
of the pillars of P2P culture, and is home to thousands of serious P2P
users. Definitely recommended.
- Toorgle.com Toorgle is a torrent metasearch engine based on Google technology. Like any metasearch service, your searches result from multiple other search engines on the Web. Toorgle retrieves the location of these files for you as a kind of matchmaking service. It's quick to use. Just make sure you take the time to choose those torrents that have positive comments and are verified by users.
- Torlock
Torlock is special. These folks actually pay their users commission for
uncovering fake torrents and reporting it to their community. In a
world of phony files, this is a tremendous service. If you are a regular
downloader, and are tired of wasted downloads and fraudulent files,
give Torlock a try.
- Torrents.to This site has a Tonga country domain name, but certainly offers plentiful metasearching of movies and music in English and Spanish. There are some popup advertisements that are annoying, but perhaps you might like the framed interface for searching other torrent sites.
- Isohunt.com
Isohunt is a longtime site that has earned both the respect of P2P
users everywhere...and the negative attention of the recording industry.
While being sued by the CRIA, the Isohunt team continues to provide
solid service. The Isohunt community monitors itself for fake files.
When choosing your torrents, read the user comments, and only trust
those files that have earned multiple green positive replies at Isohunt.
Avoid any torrents that have red font numbers and negative comments,
and you should be have good experiences at Isohunt. NOTE: adult
advertising has become very prevalent at Isohunt, but if you can put up
with the skimpily-clad girls, this site continues to be one of the true
standout torrent services.
- Kick Ass Torrents.com
This site is a newer favorite with a growing community. The interface
is a distinctive earth color, and the search results display in a useful
format of columns, including torrent health. The best part of Kick Ass
Torrents is their comment and feedback system... the user community
watches the quality of torrents, and offers their recommendations and
warnings.
- Torrent Funk:
Torrent Funk is a very popular torrent search site that now supports
commenting. While Torrent Funk also supports 'verified status' tagging,
which some people prefer to comments. The interface can be difficult to
discern between sponsored ads and the actual torrent links. But the
Torrent Funk site layout is pleasing, the cross-movie recommendations
are very helpful, and several About.com readers highly recommended
Torrent Funk. Give this site a try, and watch if it will grow over
time.
- Flixflux:
a UK torrent site that is very popular with European downloaders. The
advertising is not suitable for young people, and the sponsored links
get mixed in with the torrent results. But many UK readers highly
recommend this site for movies and music.
- Fenopy has some compelling features. Fenopy is fully integrated with IMDB and Last.fm radio, so it offers engaging information for discovering movies and music. A graphics gallery of large and motivating thumbnails adorns the home page, and the fake finder feature is also very useful for avoiding bad files. Definitely give Fenopy a try.
- TorrentZap:
TorrentZap is not as large of a catalog as other torrent search
engines. And, as with all sites, you need to endure advertising to keep
it a no-cost service. But the interface is clean, bright, and easy to
navigate. Try this site out, skip past the 'external search results' to
find the real torrents at TorrentZap, and let us know what you think.
- Torrentcafe.com
This site is relatively new, and needs to grow its user base some more.
But Torrentcafe comes highly recommended by several About.com readers,
so please give it a try and let us know how you like it.
- LinuxTracker.org (For legal linux torrents and virtual machines.)
- Torrent Root:
as another metasearch engine, Torrent Root will scan through other
search engines on your behalf, and display the results in a slick tabbed
interface.
- Torrent Tree
This search site is written in Ajax code language. Like any metasearch engine, Torrent Tree pulls its results from many other search engines. But Torrent Tree pulls *more* search results than any other current metasearcher. Definitely give this site a try.
- CinemaTorrents:
this site offers something really unique: IMDB ratings and vote
information right on the search page. You can see public opinions on
the movie itself before you download.
- BitSnoop.com
This site was recommended by reader Melody, who speaks very highly
about its navigability, reliability, and clean design. Using a growing
community of users to help police the content, BitSnoop offers minimal
advertising and reassuring tagging of good torrents. Look for the green
'verified' tags, and you're bound to find good downloads here.
Definitely try BitSnoop.com, and let us know what you think of this
newer site.
- Torrentbit.nl
This Netherlands site offers a simple interface and large index of
torrents. It also offers a broad selection of European language movies
and music.
- Plentyoftorrents:
this is a kind of launchpad search engine that offers choices where you
want to search. Multiple users have recommended Plentyoftorrents this
summer; let us know what you think of this site.
- Nowtorrents.com
Now Torrents (allegedly) offers a special service: it filters out
fake/dead torrents. It also offers date-range searching, so you can
search for specific years of content (e.g. Flight of the Conchords,
2008).
- Blues Brothers: Blues Brothers is a private site with a strong community and file-sharing ethic. As a private site, you can expect the leeching (selfish) users to be reduced. The BB community also strives to police itself by carefully watching each member's upload ratio... if you abuse your ratio, you are blocked from downloading until you donate. This policy may seem a bit harsh, but members seem to really appreciate it.
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