Daeval Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) The other day, I was cruising for new demos and other interesting downloads and ended up trying to download the republic commando demo from Fileplanet. The fileplanet wait was about an hour and a half, so I went looking for alternate sources. Long story short, I found a torrent and had all 4-500 megs of the demo in less than a tenth of the time it would have taken me to even start the download off of Fileplanet. So I started using Fileplanet as a resource to find the files I wanted, then googling for torrents of the same files. The results were crappy at best. I tried some of the "seedy" (aahaha, pun!....) torrent sites and had poor luck wading through gig after gig of bad porn to find only a few legitimate files. So the question becomes... Does anyone know of a site that meets all three of these criteria: 1) It's legitimate - no warez, mp3s, vcds, etc. Just legitimate torrents. 2) It's organized - Not that Fileplanet is all that well organized, but long, arbitrary lists of torrents suck. Searchable is a definite plus. 3) The torrents are good - I found a few sites that ALMOST worked for me, but 90% of the torrents were completely dead. At least it would be nice to be able to see the number of seeds, etc from the site. Remember, it HAS to be legit. That's what made it a tough thing to find - anyone can find the illegal ones if they know how to look. Furthermore, YOU CANNOT LINK TO SITES WITH WAREZ, ETC ON THIS BOARD. So don't try to get me in trouble, or my thread closed, by putting those links in this thread. Thanks. Edited February 6, 2005 by Daeval Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted February 6, 2005 Share Posted February 6, 2005 have you tried www.gigex.comthat is where i used to get most big game demosbut i haven't d/led from there in a long tyme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 legaltorrents.com Full of distros and sheit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeval Posted February 7, 2005 Author Share Posted February 7, 2005 gigex.com isn't a torrent site, but it looks like a decent resource anyway. Thanks for the link! I found Legaltorrents.com earlier, but it has a really limited selection of stuff. I guess it fits all my criteria, but misses out for lack of content. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 I guess legal torrent sites are under a rock; very hard to find and if you happen to dig one up, it's sucky in some ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Well, I do know a few sites that distribute live shows of bands and artists. Most of which bands allow distribution and sharing of their live shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeval Posted February 7, 2005 Author Share Posted February 7, 2005 I guess legal torrent sites are under a rock; very hard to find and if you happen to dig one up, it's sucky in some ways.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is basically my conclusion. Which is a shame, really, as torrents are powerful enough that they should supplement, or even replace (with dedicated seeds), traditional downloads for the big file-repositories. It would save them bandwidth and make it a hell of a lot faster, and more convinient, for the end users. As I said earlier, I nabbed Star Wars: Republic Commando at just about the full speed my line can handle, which hasn't happened on File Planet in at least 4 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucandrake Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 Well, I don't know why publisher's would want to give away content like this. So I see no way possible that torrents will have legal files , besides the category of game demo's, music demo's, etc etc.... So yeah Daevel, if I were you, I'd stop searching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 (edited) Well, I don't know why publisher's would want to give away content like this. So I see no way possible that torrents will have legal files , besides the category of game demo's, music demo's, etc etc.... So yeah Daevel, if I were you, I'd stop searching.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Of course all the legal torrents are going to be gigantic game demos, free music, and Linux distros. Those 3 things are going to be a huge reason why Bit torrent as a P2P won't be attacked like Kazaa. Edited February 7, 2005 by GryphonKlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted February 7, 2005 Share Posted February 7, 2005 BT open source + in combonation with many legal ways it can be used = the win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeval Posted February 7, 2005 Author Share Posted February 7, 2005 (edited) So I see no way possible that torrents will have legal files , besides the category of game demo's, music demo's, etc etc.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ummm.. That's exactly what I was looking for... Re-read the original post. BT open source + in combonation with many legal ways it can be used = the win.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I agree wholeheartedly. It's starting to look like no one has really caught on though. Edited February 7, 2005 by Daeval Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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