Legal torrent sites
Users who mention illegal torrents or websites are kicked out of IRC channels.
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.
General Sites
- http://www.vuze.com/content/
- http://vodo.net/ (BitTorrent distribution of independent film & movies)
- http://www.mininova.org/ (Formerly popular site now carrying only legal torrents)
- http://blog.bittorrent.com/ (Classic Public Domain Content)
- http://www.suprnova.org/ (Formerly popular site now carrying only legal torrents)
- http://www.archive.org (Public Domain and classic movies, music, books etc)
- http://www.publicdomaintorrents.info/ (Public domain movies)
- http://bundles.bittorrent.com/ (Featured Content)
- http://bitlove.org/ (Podcasts seeded as Torrents)
- http://www.frostclick.com/wp/ (Popular Open Creative common torrents)
- http://www.LegitTorrents.info (Free legal torrents)
- http://torrent.ibiblio.org/ (torrent front-end to selected ibiblio.org archive files) *RSS
- http://burnbit.com (generates a .torrent from any file URL)
- http://www.jamtothis.com/ (free)
Sites with limited scope
Music
- http://bt.etree.org/ (hundreds of recordings of concerts and gigs) RSS
- http://www.jamendo.com/ (Music community for artists and enthusiasts)
- http://panda.cd/ (Members can directly support artists via artist donations)
Software
- http://linuxtracker.org/ (Multiple different distributions)
- 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)
Video Games
- http://tasvideos.org/ (video games played perfectly)
- http://www.planeshift.it/download.html (Open Source MMORPG)
- http://www.gameupdates.org/
Art/TV/Film Shows
- http://newvoyages.mine.nu:1701/ (Fan produced Star Trek episodes)
- http://www-fi3.starwreck.com/ (scifi parody)
Science
Recently inactive sites
- http://www.ClearBits.net/ (provides dedicated hosting/seeds, financial sponsorship for Content Creators) - unavailable from late December 2013
Sites that have been re-purposed
- legaltorrent . net (around 2014/03/03 started requiring registration and pushing something called 'open download manager')
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