#torrents

[mlembug]

Programmer Bram Cohen, a University at Buffalo alumnus, designed the protocol in April 2001 with the idea of speeding up download time by enabling files to be downloaded from many sources. He then released the first available version on 2 July 2001.

🥳 Happy 25th Birthday to the BitTorrent protocol 🥳

[the-tin-dog]

Be kind, seed your torrents.

[utopicwork]

PeerWeb - Decentralized Website Hosting

PeerWeb is a revolutionary way to host and share websites using WebTorrent technology. Instead of relying on centralized servers, websites a

Looks like the technique I talked about for hosting websites over torrents is already being used by some other people. Should mean it's viable.

[theres-a-hole-in-my-wall]

okay so which do you prefer? (Not which is better necessarily) this is 100% just for me to prove something to my friend

Which do you prefer?

torrenting

direct downloads

Other/explain in tags

Voting ended onJun 2

I just think direct downloads are sooo much easier & thus accessible to people that know nothing about sailing the seas. But my friend insists newbies should get into tormenting off the bat instead

[kolza12]

[emma-dennehy-presents]

hello c: i am a baby adult (over 18 tho) and i would like to learn how to torrent and perhaps also jailbreak please help

havent jailbroken anything in a long time so cant help too much there. Torrents however, amazinglyspicy's torrenting post or /r/piracy's megathread are a great way to start.

The basics though are:

Get a VPN (I use proton's atm, have to have the paid version for p2p/torrenting, but there are free ones out there)

Get firefox all set up with Ublock origin (getting rid of ads and the like eliminates most fake download buttons)

Get a torrenting client (I use qBittorrent)

Find torrents on a trusted site (can be found in the links I shared above, /r/piracy has a great list, I mostly use 1337)

I generally prefer Magnet Links over directly downloading the torrent file. I usually connect to more peers and dont have a bunch of torrent files to clean up later. The option will almost always be right next to the general torrent download.

If you stick to trusted sites and services your chances of running into trouble are pretty slim. Your torrenting client will tell you what files are in a torrent before you download it and you can catch most funny business just by looking at that. For now avoid torrents with EXE, APK, and ISO files until you are more comfortable and knowledgeable. That makes torrenting games and software harder but basically nukes the chances of downloading and installing something nasty on your comp/phone.

In addition to torrents there are tons of ways to pull movies/music/etc from the sites that are hosting them. Big fan of JDownloader 2 for stuff like YouTube videos and the like. (thank you @skinslip for turning me on to it, its been soooooooooo useful)

and last but most important PLZ SEED!, at least 24hrs after you finish downloading. Others seeding is what lets you download it in the first place, so share the love!

good luck and welcome to the high seas! 🏴‍☠️

[justlurkingbi]

I was looking for a torrent of a book and ended up on Pirate Bay's Top 100 eBooks page. My god what a list. Here is but a selection of the most torrented books on the site:

Killer ChatGPT Prompts

ChatGPT for Dummies

Ultimate Guide to ChatGPT

Isaac Asimov Collection

The Bitcoin Standard

A Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin

Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies

Mistborn Series

50 Dark Psychology and Manipulation books

How to Win Friends and Influence People

The Wheel of Time

Make Her Orgasm Again and Again - 48 Simple Tips and Tricks

Warhammer 40k Novels Collection

The Expanse

How to Create Paper Airplanes Step by Step

Air Fryer Cookbook

1984 by George Orwell

The Complete Photo Guide to Sex

101 Most Popular Excel Formulas

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Discworld Collection

I am studying these people under a microscope.