Legal torrent sites

Users who mention illegal torrents or websites are kicked out of <a _fcknotitle="true" href="IRC">IRC</a> 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 <a _fcknotitle="true" href="RSSFeedScanner">RSSFeedScanner</a>.

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://www.itorrent.site ( Général site to Download torrents)
• http://torrent.ibiblio.org/ (torrent front-end to selected ibiblio.org archive files) *<a href="http://torrent.ibiblio.org/feed.php?blockId=1&type=rss20">RSS</a>
• http://burnbit.com (generates a .torrent from any file URL)
• http://www.tntorrent.pl (free)
• http://www.jamtothis.com/ (free)

Sites with limited scope

Music

• http://bt.etree.org/ (hundreds of recordings of concerts and gigs) <a href="http://bt.etree.org/rss/bt_etree_org.rdf">RSS</a>
• 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) <a href="http://borft.student.utwente.nl/%7Emike/oo/bt.rss">RSS</a>
• http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/ (OpenOffice.org)
• http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/ (fedora ISOs and talks)

Video Games

• <a href="http://tasvideos.org/">http://tasvideos.org/</a> (video games played perfectly)
• <a href="http://www.planeshift.it/download.html">http://www.planeshift.it/download.html</a> (Open Source MMORPG)
• <a href="http://www.gameupdates.org/">http://www.gameupdates.org/</a>

Art/TV/Film Shows

• http://newvoyages.mine.nu:1701/ (Fan produced Star Trek episodes)
• http://www-fi3.starwreck.com/ (scifi parody)

Science

• http://www.biotorrents.net/

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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