Legal torrent sites

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[edit] Websites that list legal torrents for download

If you cannot find what you want on the following strictly legal torrent sites, check out the general-purpose torrent sites as they carry a mixture of torrents. "Creative Commons" is an effective search term for finding legal torrents. An "RSS" link indicates a link to an RSS feed of the latest torrents from a site, all were checked before addition to ensure they work with RSSFeedScanner.

[edit] General Sites

• http://www.vuze.com/content/BucketBrowse.html
• http://www.wortharchiving.com (free)
• http://www.LegitTorrents.info (free)
• http://f.scarywater.net/ (small)
• http://torrent.ibiblio.org/ (torrent front-end to selected ibiblio.org archive files) *RSS
• http://www.peerit.com/ (content costs money)
• http://www.legaltorrents.com/ (provides hosting/seeds, financial sponsorship for Content Creators)

[edit] Sites with limited scope

[edit] Music

• http://bt.etree.org/ (hundreds of recordings of concerts and gigs) RSS
• http://www.jamendo.com/ (Music community for artists and enthusiasts)
• http://2006.sxsw.com/toolbox/schedules/ipod/ (South by Southwest festival)

[edit] Software

• http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ (FreeBSD)
• http://www.slackware.com/torrents/ (Linux distro)
• http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ (Linux distro)
• http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/ (Linux distro)
• http://torrent.gnome.org/ (gnome GUI)
• http://borft.student.utwente.nl:6969/ (OpenOffice.org) RSS
• http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ (OpenOffice.org)
• http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ (fedora ISOs and talks)
• http://autopatcher.scarywater.net/ (AutopatcherXP translations)

[edit] Video Games

• http://tasvideos.org/ (video games played perfectly)
• http://www.planeshift.it/download.html (Open Source MMORPG)

[edit] Art/TV/Film Shows

• http://www.fromtheshadows.tv/
• http://www.panicstruckpro.com/revelations/revelations.html (fan produced Star Wars movie)
• http://newvoyages.mine.nu:1701/ (Fan produced Star Trek episodes)
• http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/ (classic movies,B-Movies)(PDA/SMARTPHONE/PPC/Ipod versions)
• http://www-fi3.starwreck.com/ (scifi parody)
• http://www.mariposahd.tv/episodes (HDTV produced Internet show in Argentina)
• http://revision3.com/ (Revision3 IPTV programs including Diggnation, InDigital and Geekdrome)
• http://www.bittorrent.com/ (BitTorrent, now teamed with Warner Brothers)

[edit] Recently inactive sites

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