Legal torrent sites
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Users who mention illegal torrents or websites are kicked out of IRC channels.
Websites that list legal torrents for download[edit]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Music[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- http://tasvideos.org/ (video games played perfectly)
- http://www.planeshift.it/download.html (Open Source MMORPG)
- http://www.gameupdates.org/
Art/TV/Film Shows[edit]
- http://newvoyages.mine.nu:1701/ (Fan produced Star Trek episodes)
- http://www-fi3.starwreck.com/ (scifi parody)
Science[edit]
Recently inactive sites[edit]
- http://www.ClearBits.net/ (provides dedicated hosting/seeds, financial sponsorship for Content Creators) - unavailable from late December 2013
Sites that have been re-purposed[edit]
- legaltorrent . net (around 2014/03/03 started requiring registration and pushing something called 'open download manager')
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