Private torrent sites

[bobletman]

I was wondering if anyone here used any Private torrent sites such as torrent damage.

['Amp!']

Need an invite for that site.

What's the benefit of a private torrent site anyways?

[werty316]

What's the benefit of a private torrent site anyways?

Primarily a faster download speed is one benefit since you need an account to access a private tracker.

[slugbug]

Nope I use usenet and download at full speed :smile:

[PP Mguire]

Thepiratebay and isuhunt for me really. I download at my cap so im good.

[alfhenrik]

I've never bothered with private trackers, I just use Mininova.org and Thepiratebay.org...downloading fast enough for me...

[sushrukh]

I use Torrentspy & Isohunt. :)

[Methious]

Piratebay and Isohunt for me usually, don't pay attention to Dl times I run it over night from a download machine/bench tester.

[bobletman]

Well I use torrent damage and I hit 1mb/s when downloading. So i download movies usually in less then 20 minutes. you have to keep a ratio of .5 to stay in though.

[Schwarz]

torrentspy, thepiratebay and suprnova back in the days which is now owned by thepiratebay I hear...

[cvasquez]

I am just surprised that you guys are talking about this freely and site does not ban any of this discussion.

[bobletman]

well I dont think this deserves a ban because we are just discussing this we are not sending links to torrents or anything that is frowned upon.

[cvasquez]

No but you are posting reference names and that is more than enough to get lots of attention.

Feel bad for moderator or whoever is in charge here. I personally came to this forum to stay away from lots of negative stuff. I will survey this forum and will decide if I should stick around.

[borschtBomber[SS]]

Umm, torrents are not illegal you know? There actually is plenty of legal stuff that can be downloaded via torrents.

[cvasquez]

;129793']Umm, torrents are not illegal you know? There actually is plenty of legal stuff that can be downloaded via torrents.

No comment.

[Schwarz]

A BitTorrent client is any program that implements the BitTorrent protocol. Each client is capable of preparing, requesting, and transmitting any type of computer file over a network, using the protocol. A peer is any computer running an instance of a client.

To share a file or group of files, a peer first creates a "torrent." This small file contains metadata about the files to be shared and about the tracker, the computer that coordinates the file distribution. Peers that want to download the file first obtain a torrent file for it, and connect to the specified tracker, which tells them from which other peers to download the pieces of the file.

Though both ultimately transfer files over a network, a BitTorrent download differs from a classic full-file HTTP request in several fundamental ways:

BitTorrent makes many small P2P requests over different TCP sockets, while web-browsers typically make a single HTTP GET request over a single TCP socket.
BitTorrent downloads in a random or in a "rarest-first"[2] approach that ensures high availability, while HTTP downloads in a sequential manner.
Taken together, these differences allow BitTorrent to achieve much lower cost, much higher redundancy, and much greater resistance to abuse or to "flash crowds" than a regular HTTP server. However, this protection comes at a cost: downloads can take time to rise to full speed because it may take time for enough peer connections to be established, and it takes time for a node to receive sufficient data to become an effective uploader. As such, a typical BitTorrent download will gradually rise to very high speeds, and then slowly fall back down toward the end of the download. This contrasts with an HTTP server that, while more vulnerable to overload and abuse, rises to full speed very quickly and maintains this speed throughout.

In general, BitTorrent's non-contiguous download methods have prevented it from supporting "progressive downloads" or "streaming playback". But recent comments by Bram Cohen suggest that streaming torrent downloads will soon be commonplace and this appears to be the result of those comments.

Taken from wikipedia.

In short a torrent in itself is not illegal.
Of course some sites will host links to illegal trackers but in itself those sites are not even illegal in themselves because they only are a search engine.
It would be like saying google is illegal because you can search for illegal stuff on it.
What is illegal in all this is what people make of the torrent in themselves.
It would be like saying all BLANK cds are illegal because people make illegal copies with them.
Or that a butter knife is illegal because you can kill with it.
A crime is commited by someone and not something.
Filesharing is not illegal.
Actually more and more companies offer bittorrent downloads for game demos freeware and sharewares.
It just sucks that people ascociate bit torrent with illegal downloads because it is a great protocol.

[cvasquez]

P2P is not illegal either, it's just happens that it turns into a different topic once we start talking about sites that we should not mention in here for the sole purpose that they are recognize for pirating software.

[bobletman]

Ok there is nothing bad about torrent sites. Do some research before you start talking. There has been no talking about illegal software or any of that kind. I just simply asked whether or not people use private torrent sites.

[cvasquez]

My apologies then....I'll just keep on walking.
And to be truthful to your answer.
Most people don't use private torrents they use public cause they are easy to obtain.

[werty316]

Most people don't use private torrents they use public cause they are easy to obtain.
That and the fact that they are public meaning free to use without any membership requirements.

[mivanx77]

I remember the good old days of Demonoid. It was my favorite place, it had all the hard to find stuff their!

[bobletman]

I remember the good old days of Demonoid. It was my favorite place, it had all the hard to find stuff their!

Didnt they ban it in canada?

[werty316]

For a while yes then they got taken down by "the man".

[mivanx77]

Yup, the "the man" shut it down. I heard rummors though that the PirateBay decided to loan them some servers for free until they can get things up and running agian.

[bobletman]

Yup, the "the man" shut it down. I heard rummors though that the PirateBay decided to loan them some servers for free until they can get things up and running agian.

hmm hope it goes back up. And thats just another reason to love pirate bay more. :smile:

[raidersforever01]

A legal use for torrents is ANIME!!! Thats what i mostly use it for, just gigs and gigs of anime. So whatever trackers they are on is the one i am using. Sometimes only a very rare anime will be on a private tracker, thats probably the onl ytime i use them but other then that i dont go private. No real reason for it.

[cvasquez]

They will always exists, don't think you can't ever get rid of them.
To them they rather be exposed then to go private.
They go private and will have a hard time tracking them...cause you and I are not going to share it as we do now. Plus on the other end because they go private and don't want to share info might even charge for account.

[mousiness]

Haha why are there so many of these illegal threads floating around, is this some kind of trap? :P This thread and all the other illegal ones should be deleted due to possible lawsuits Scott!! Ahh!