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- Tmacman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+66Legal Torrents? What fun is that?
- diggmanchu, on 10/12/2007, -55/+112I'll be pissed off if you guys don't dig this comment down
- digitalsin, on 10/12/2007, -6/+45Legal torrents are as useful as:
1. Non-alcoholic beer
2. Massages without happy ending
3. A wife who can't cook
4. A veggie burger
5. A smart blonde
6. George Bush Jr.
7. The French army
Who the hell needs it? - TNHitokiri, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41He's using reverse psychology on you!
- MosaicM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Good stuff here, I hope this goes at least some way toward teaching people not in the know that torrents aren't all about pirating stuff. Some ISP's slow down or even block torrents all together because of this misconception.
- answer42, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23It's a trap!
- terinjokes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14don't you mean they're an oxymoron?
- koweja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Obviously you should only use torrents legally when you are downloading Linux :)
- EnterDaMatrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Strictly for legal music ROIOs (Recordings of indeterminate origin), meaning that there is no official release:
http://www.dimeadozen.org
http://www.bootcity.org
http://www.tradersden.org
Great if you want to listen to a concert you went to, but the band doesn't sell them. - PixelVision, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think the throttling is more to do with the high bandwidth consumption creating problems. They try to limit each customer rather than invest in upgrading their networks. They get away with it because people assume that if you're using bit torrent then you're doing something illegal. It's not challenged as much because of that in the way that limiting downloads from the web to something like 50MB per day would be.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Finally, no list of legal Torrent platforms would be complete without a Linux ISO site like Linuxtracker.com (actually links to Linuxtracker.org). Advocates of the free operating system have been using BitTorrent for a long time to spread the latest releases of their preferred distribution. Linuxtracker lists all major flavors of Linux, including video-specific releases like the open source DVR system KnoppMyth15 and the multimedia production platform 64 Studio16."
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7short list:
http://legaltorrents.com
http://publicdomaintorrents.com
http://legittorrents.info
http://bittorrent.com
http://2007.sxsw.com/toolbox/
http://bt.etree.org/
http://zudeo.com
http://torrentfreak.com (http://torrentfreak.com/sundance-winner-the-corporation-released-for-free-on-bittorrent/)
http://revision3.com
http://linuxtracker.org/
full article:
Bittorrent downloads are either illegal or DRM-infected1, right? Wrong. There are plenty of websites out there that offer free and legal Torrent downloads to save bandwidth and make file sharers happy at the same time.
Granted, sites like The Pirate Bay are still the major source for Bittorrent traffic. But legitimate platforms offer enough video goodies to clog your tubes for days. Here are 10 great places to get started:
Legaltorrents.com2 distributed 90 terabytes of Creative Commons-licensed content in the last seven months alone. The site features lots of music downloads, but also has some good video content like the South African TV show Go Open and the Firefly-Documentary Done The Impossible. All the files are centrally seeded, so your downloads will always have a happy ending.
Public Domain Torrents3 features hundreds of Torrents from out-of-copyright films in numerous formats. Unfortunately there is no central seeding, so you better stick to the recently posted items.
Legit Torrents4 is a new site that aggregates freely available Torrents, including video, games and Linux distributions.
Bittorrent5 has taken a beating1 for its recently launched download store, but the site still offers lots of freely downloadable content as well. Unfortunately the free stuff gets buried under the rentals and sales, which are for some reason deemed more “relevant.”
SXSW.com6 features music and video downloads to promote the South by Southwest festival. This year’s film trailers aren’t up yet, but there’s 3 gigabytes of MP3 music to get an idea of what’s gonna go down in Austin this March.
Speaking of music: Etree7 is hosting live recordings of bootleg-friendly artists in the lossless FLAC audio format.
The soon-to-be-relaunched Azureus home base Zudeo8 offers a mix of music videos, user-generated content, professionally produced movies and short films. Worth a look because of its extensive list of fan films9 and HD10 content. All downloads are centrally seeded.
Torrentfreak11 is known for its up-to-date coverage of the BitTorrent scene, but the site also operates an own tracker and regularly features legal downloads like the official Bittorrent release of the movie The Corporation12.
Revision3.com13 is technically not a Torrent site, but the online video network utilizes BitTorrent like few others. Every episode page features a multitude of Torrent links, and you can subscribe to each show with an RSS-Feed including proper Torrent enclosures.
Finally, no list of legal Torrent platforms would be complete without a Linux ISO site like Linuxtracker.com14. Advocates of the free operating system have been using BitTorrent for a long time to spread the latest releases of their preferred distribution. Linuxtracker lists all major flavors of Linux, including video-specific releases like the open source DVR system KnoppMyth15 and the multimedia production platform 64 Studio16. - gamer31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4yeah if you can find something to seed....
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Obviously you should only use torrents legally when you are downloading Linux :)"
And demonstrating Bittorrent clients - Without them torrent-clients seem to have lots of suspicious black bars all over the place.. - Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you dig down the one comment that gives you legal denialibilty when your sued...
- slack31337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4digging for reefer madness !!
http://www.bittorrent.com/users/vintage-movies/torrents/Reefer_Madness_%28Full-Length_Movie._1938%29/b33dc86728c7934fe9c283cef00432fd59e37119 - SmackMyMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2for music Album downloads try www.etceteraforums.com. It's free to sign up (it's a forum( and you can pretty muh find any Album there.
- Skab, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3There is some pretty cool stuff on these sites, one they didn't mention is http://www.chomskytorrents.org
it's not all chomsky stuff just the name. enjoy and share. - CharityChic, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Surprised http://wortharchiving.com isn't on the list of free legal torrents.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Legaltorrents.com = CLUTTER!
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@TNHitokiri: Well it worked cause I dugg him up.
btw, love your icon, Go Blue! - Jennica, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2what is so great about FLAC?
- furryplanet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The US government faked his death & he was brought in on the Philadelphia experiment. Look it up... in news that is not tampered with.
- nos235, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1torrents are chewing up the net's bandwidth - the sooner something is done to stop all this useless video downloading the better
- ManuS, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Ten Sites for Free and Legal Torrents"
There's no such thing as legal torrents.
And all torrents are free. - JaggedEdge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Hold on what is this, I thought everybody who used BitTorrent already knew of these sites and only went through Legal channels to download stuff.
Dugg Down as LAME.
/end sarcasm - loganhid, on 10/12/2007, -12/+10what? some bittorent content is illegal
- chess007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1 Anyone know where I can d/l Go Open? There are no seeds...
- MacGuy88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I'll stick with OiNK.me.uk :-)
- icoke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0i don't have the passion for dead beavers sorry
- JaySherman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Any torrent is legal, just say you were "testing" a movie
- BananaChips, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Oh my god! Was she alright?
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Damn, no Sopranos.
- yhan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I'll just stick with the pirate bay. Legal? probably not. Unmoral, unethical? Nope.
- icoke, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0i daresay some ancient egyptian would have said - wholy crap, guys, don't be bothered, go to the spynx ...
- digitalsin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1In my country we say legal torrents are like letting monkey fly airplane...
- Xert, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Legal torrents are redundant.
- BetaMaster, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1dugg down
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2They missed a good one...
http://linuxtracker.org/ - TomRemixed, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1woohoo digg up fool
- mr1337, on 10/12/2007, -15/+2More like, "Legal Torrents? WHAT is that?"
- Dantetheinferno, on 10/12/2007, -40/+14Wait, Torrents can be... Legal?
- msowner, on 10/12/2007, -33/+1Scream like a bitch cause I dugg you up
- moggygetro, on 10/12/2007, -44/+9dumbass
- portis, on 10/12/2007, -40/+4Go scream like a whiny bitch in the corner then, cause I dugg you up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -52/+7Torrentspy.com
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