TORRENT

The Pirate Bay (TPB) is the autointitulado "largest BitTorrent finder of the world", and also the index to the files. Torrent that crawls. A. Torrent, together with a BitTorrent client provides the client with the information necessary to copy a file or set of files from other people who are downloading or sharing the same file. Due to the BitTorrent protocol's ability to manage large files, is a popular choice for sharing large multimedia files (often illegally in most countries of where they connect their users) as well as CDs of Linux distributions.

The Pirate Bay was created by the organization anticopyright Swedish Piratbyrån at the beginning of 2004, but since October 2004 became an independent organization.

Due to Swedish law, the service available on site (index files) is not illegal, and so The Pirate Bay faced a few problems with the law during its history, including having a reputation of responding ironically the legal departments of companies that threatening.

On April 17, 2009, the founders of the Swedish site, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom, Peter Sunder, were found guilty of charges of violating copyright laws, and sentenced by the Swedish justice to one year in prison and pay the equivalent of U.S. $ 8 million (U.S. $ 3.55 million) to some of the largest companies in the entertainment world as Sony and Warner. [4] This is not the last resort and their lawyers said they will appeal.

BitTorrent is a protocol widely used for downloading on the Internet today! That allows files of music, videos, games and software quickly and safely. The only problem is that it is very easy to find torrent files of type on the Internet, which can be solved with good sites that index the file. We chose the 10 best. Check!
1. Mininova (http://www.mininova.org)
2. The Piratebay (http://thepiratebay.org)
3. Torrent Portal (http://www.torrentportal.com)
4. Seed Peer (http://www.seedpeer.com)
5. Bite Nova (http://www.bitenova.nl)
6. Bittorrent.am (http://www.bittorrent.am)
7. Sumo Torrent (http://www.sumotorrent.com)
8. New world http://www.worldnova.org)
9. Games Torrents (http://www.gamestorrents.com)
10. BTMon (http://www.btmon.com)

Mininova is one of the largest torrent sites on the Internet. The site began in January 2005 as a successor of (when it was very popular) Suprnova, which went to get out of breath at the end of 2004 due to legal issues. This is a directory and search engine for many kinds of torrent files.

Visitors of Mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. Mininova does not allow pornographic submissions nor link the IP addresses of visitors. From February 19, 2008, over 550,000 of Mininova torrents in the database. Many of the torrents contain links to copyright-protected material. The word 'mininova' was classified as 9 in the list of terms most commonly found on Google in 2006.

In April 2007, Mininova BV (the company that runs Mininova.org) won a dispute over the domain mininova.com area, which was operated by a phish. On February 18, 2008, it was revealed that there were more than 4 billion (or 4 billion in en-us) of downloads.

It is estimated that in 2007 it has collected more than € 1 million for advertising.

Torrent Portal is a BitTorrent metafile index tracking:
2,066,866 Torrents with 1,885,752,975 Peers across 12,582 trackers. We also have 1,124,239 registered members.

P2P & File Sharing Technology is completely legal. There are an countless number of legal uses for content found on P2P networks (such as to comment upon, criticize or parody a copyrighted work.). However, many of the files traded via P2P are copyrighted to their original owners and their rights need to be respected. Check your local laws to find out when file sharing is considered piracy in your country.

TorrentPortal is like Google™ in that it only links to .torrent metafiles and takes a cache of such files. None of the data transferred by or stored on TorrentPortal servers is content linked to by .torrent files.

Unless you live in Canada, downloading copyrighted material via P2P may put you at risk for a lawsuit. Canadian users are currently shielded from P2P lawsuits. Canada signed the 1997 World Intellectual Property Organization Internet Treaties, but has not yet ratified them by enacting their provisions into domestic law. Recently there has been class-action suits filed against users who copy and distribute copyrighted material without regard for the law. The MPAA, RIAA and the governments of both England and Australia have taken several thousand users to court demanding thousands of dollars. Your ISP may, on their own judgment, give their logs of your downloading activity to those who request it. In those situations, the more you download and share, the more risk you put yourself at.

Introduction

The technologies of P2P (peer to peer) are one of the most used file-sharing all over the internet. A P2P network has gained much prominence that is BitTorrent, which offers an innovative way of working, efficient and stable. The main concepts behind the BitTorrent are explained below.

What is BitTorrent

The BitTorrent is a technology created by Bram Cohen that allows the sharing of any file via the Internet, is widely used for the distribution of videos, music and programs. His way of working is very effective and avoids, for example, that only certain users to download but not share files (at least theoretically). This is because the rate of download is equivalent to the rate of upload, or just sharing is that you can download files. For this reason, when you are starting a download, the speed used is slow and grows in line with what has been downloaded file. The more you have a file, most users will connect to your computer and the rule, the rate of increase speed of your download.

BitTorrent logo, taken from the site oficialNa fact, BitTorrent is a protocol which, as I said, allows the sharing of any file type. Because of this, the BitTorrent can not be considered a software for illegal purposes (as was the pioneer Napster, allowing the distribution of music in MP3 format), because anyone can use the protocol for distributing files. There are even companies that share its software in this way. Just as an example, suppose a writer has created an e-book (digital books). In addition to offering it in a site, the author may distribute it for BitTorrent, it does not hurt and no laws to protect intellectual property. If illegal content is distributed by the department, the responsibility in this case is that users do, and not the program.

Reasons to use BitTorrent

What was said above is certainly sufficient to justify the use of BitTorrent. However, there are other good reasons:

Safety: BitTorrent is a very safe, because only share the file you're downloading. He does not use shared directories, which prevents, for example, that virus is established in these folders and contaminate the computer of another user;

Multi-platform: the multi-platform BitTorrent is, or is not intended for a single operating system. You can use it in Windows, the Mac OS and Linux, for example;

Open source: at least in part. In the second half of 2007, when the BitTorrent 6 was released, those responsible for the program closed the source code of their official client, as it is now based in the μTorrent client, which has never been open (but has always been free). In the BitTorrent protocol itself, the source code remains open, at least for now. Further the matter, visit the BitTorrent developer;

Free: you need not pay anything to use it (however, you can make donations to the creator of the service);

Continued from where you stopped, you need not leave your computer connected to the download finishes. You can stop it and then the BitTorrent continues to where it stopped.

As BitTorrent works

So you can download (and upload) for BitTorrent, it is necessary that each item is linked to a shared file named torrent, whose extension is. Torrent (eg infowester.torrent). This is a small file, but contains the necessary information to share, as the location where the file is there and that the sequence integrity. This file may be available on a site and, when accessed, starts downloading the file sharing (since that BitTorrent is installed). That means you need to find a torrent of the file you want to download. To find torrents you can use sites dedicated to this purpose. There are several on the Internet, just type the word "torrent" in search engines to locate them. One of the best known today is precisely the official site of BitTorrent - www.bittorrent.com - which also offers a service for finding files.

To understand the sharing of files on BitTorrent, it is necessary to know some terms:

Seed (or seeding): is the name given to the computer that has a full file sharing, as the computer that first released the file and the others who downloaded the whole;

Peer: name given to each computer that shares files. When you are downloading something for BitTorrent, your computer is a peer, or a point or a node of the network;

Leech (or leeching) is the name given to the time when a computer download;

Tracker: name given to the server that is responsible for organizing the files available and direct downloads;

Swarm: name given to all the computers that are sharing the same file. If, for example, the file infowester.pdf is shared by 2 seeds and 8 peers, the swarm of the file contains 10 computers (2 seeds peers + 8).

The tracker is a major responsibility for the operation of the BitTorrent network, as it practically manages the distribution of files because it has information about where are the computers with shared files in a given time.

When you start a download, the tracker is consulted for the list of computers that has the file concerned is informed. While the download is being done, if your computer communicates with the tracker periodically to inform about the download has been done and to know how much absence. It is important to know how tracker already downloaded to your computer so it can indicate why your machine to the other stating that the "piece" of the file you have. Thus, the more computers are sharing that file, the download will be faster because there are more choices of sources.

An interesting fact is that if for some reason the tracker stop working (when it occurs, is usually temporary), the swarm still sharing the file that it can, after all, each computer knows where to download. However, no other machine can be part of the swarm, there is no tracker that can direct it.

Where to download

You can download a version of BitTorrent appropriate for your operating system directly from the official site: www.bittorrent.com. However, like BitTorrent itself is a protocol, it is interesting to download a client program to it (in Linux, you can use it even for command line). One of the best known is the free ABC, http://pingpong-abc.sourceforge.net available as free software. There are many other clients available (the Internet browser Opera, for example, contains an embedded BitTorrent client), each with different characteristics, therefore, in search of sites known to download other options.

Terminating

It is no exaggeration to call BitTorrent a great invention. This is something very functional and transparent. With the popularization of broadband connections, the possibility of sharing files it is real and we can say that BitTorrent arrived on time. As nothing is perfect, there are certain files that they are not as popular, are difficult to find on BitTorrent. Instead, the program is excellent for dealing with large files, even those with hundreds of megabytes. If you have not the USA BitTorrent is given a hint, after all, the more users the service has, the better its quality.