Legal Torrents

In the end, it seems TorrentSpy didn't managed to die with dignity, if I have to believe some of the readers that took their time to drop their comments, for which I have to send all my thanks, and I have no proof against their claims. Good, so maybe TorrentSpy compromised some of its users while going down, breaking their own promises, but what about downloading some music, movies, and even games from sites that won't give away your identity to the cops, won't ask you to give any donation to increase your ratio and, most important of all, won't turn you into a thief?


No, I am not on drugs! I am not even drunk. I am as sane as possible, and I am not dreaming with my eyes open and my hands on the keyboard! Before moving on, I have to warn you - this may not be a golden mine, and things are rather limited, because you won't see any Electronic Arts games or Microsoft operating systems available for download on the legal torrent trackers we're going to talk about, but you'll get 100% legal content, and some of the stuff you can get is high quality, so...

...first stop, as you probably figured out, if you visited their site at least once since they got the new logo, is LegalTorrents!

Currently in the Beta stage, the site offers only a small number of torrents, most of them(if not all) allowing you to download Creative Commons-licensed content.


If you look closer, you can even find 3 older games for Windows (The White Chamber, Facade and The Adventures of Fatman), 6 audio books, about a dozen music downloads, including some 1-2GB collections, a single wallpaper pack...but it's a site worthy of your attention, although you may not find enough reasons to come back, after a while.


PublicDomainTorrents is a site whose name says it all, but it's swarming with ads, and I think that browsing it is a gruesome task. Well, at least for me, but if you like diggin' for gold, you may find some interesting things. Only movies, from what I can tell...


Next on the list, we have Legit Torrents, a site currently having 6703 users and 1569 torrents. The content you can get here is covering a wide range of topics, from Linux distributions to games, including some new freeware titles, and even free MMORPGs like Archlord. The problem is that some torrents(most of them) don't have any description, so illegal downloads may appear here, but they are removed as soon as they get reported by someone.

As a side note, let me add something - sites like the BitTorrent download store or Azureus' Vuze may provide some good free content, but they are swarming with DRM-protected material, as well as stuff you have to pay for, so...thanks, but I'll pass. Anyway, you may want to check it out, so feel free to do it, if you have the time and patience required to browse through their extensive media libraries.

Ooooh, yeah! Losless music, anyone? Etree is the place to go! As its front page clearly says, this site's only purpose is to help fans by "sharing the live concert recordings of trade friendly artists."


Now, you're probably thinking there are only anonymous artists to be found here, but hear these names and think again: Los Lobos, Radiohead, The Grateful Dead or Primus. Unfortunately, if you're not into live recordings, this site may not be your thing, but if you think the above sounds interesting, this site is heaven - updates are frequent, and there's an impressive collection of torrents to be browsed!

No, I can't give you any torrent sites where you can download the latest Madonna album, or the "Iron Man" movie, but that's life. Some things are worth paying for, while others come for free, and since I mentioned this fact once again, I can't conclude this article without showing you the path to the largest Linux torrents archive on the Web, available at Linuxtracker.

These being said, I hope you will drop me as many comments as possible, because I am sure there's more to have from the free torrent world, so if you know one legal torrents site worth checking out... you know what to do! I will be waiting...