Legal Torrents: Games, Music and Software

Written by Ernesto on May 19, 2006

BitTorrent is often associated with piracy and copyright theft. However, it’s not all bad. Check out these less controversial sites using BitTorrent.

Games
Gameupdates
TitaniumTorrents

Music
BTetree (p2p friendly music)
Filesoup (Open Source torrents)
DJmixes (mixes)
Jamendo (CC licensed albums)
Ampfea
SXSW (South by South West music festival)

Artists
Decemberists (music video)
Harvey Danger (album)

Software
http://linuxtracker.org/ (linux torrents)
OpenOffice (office but free)

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Legal Torrents
* Games, Music and Software
* Movies and Videos

If you don't like torrents try MP3 Fiesta. They hold nearly 67,000 albums from nearly 17,000 artists. Prices are around the $0.10 mark for single tracks with full albums coming in at roughly $1.00. Tracks are available from 192kbps and they take major credit cards and PayPal

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9 Responses (Add yours)

1 May 19, 2006 at 21:13 by td

Nice to see that Bittorrent isnt all bad…

2 May 20, 2006 at 02:41 by Jer

I’ve found some great albums on jamendo, people should definitely check it out.

linux iso torrents were generally the first adopters of bittorrent when it first came out, if I remember correctly. It was later that bittorrent got it’s bad name for illegal downloads.

3 Jun 29, 2006 at 18:20 by Nonoshi

Take a look at http://www.torrentbay.de this is a good BT-resource, guess it will be soon the biggest free and legal torrent site. Also available in 14 languages O.o …well, whatever…worth a visit :)

4 Oct 18, 2006 at 21:01 by en3r0

Another good site is Legit Torrents:

http://www.virtenu.com/lt

5 Feb 01, 2007 at 05:15 by Jack Shawi

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6 Mar 26, 2007 at 07:56 by Draicone

Open Source Torrents too - http://ostorr.org/

7 Apr 16, 2007 at 21:04 by Harry

Check out this all-round 100% legal torrent tracker called Free Legal Torrents.

Find it at:
http://www.freelegaltorrents.com/

8 Jun 24, 2007 at 19:17 by Brian

http://www.peerit.com is a legal torrent site where you can sell your torrents using google checkout and paypal. buyers can make money by sharing their purchases.

9 Apr 26, 2008 at 00:38 by Seven Degrees

Seven Degrees just re-released their first album “Chromatic”(1996) Free online in the form of a bit-torrent file at :
http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4150511
let us know how that works for you.

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