Switzerland is by far the safest country for torrents. But the Swiss will take your online freedom even further… The monitoring of peer-to-peer downloads by a 3rd party is actually illegal! According to this article on Torrent Freak , IP addresses are considered personal information your IP address is the only personally identifying information available in a torrent swarm.
Since collecting personal information without consent is illegal under Swiss law, 3rd party monitoring agencies are actually committing a crime if they do so. Though there are new laws under consideration that will help rightsholders remove copyrighted material from web servers, the Swiss protected personal freedom to download files for personal use will likely remain legal for the foreseeable future. Spain is nearly as safe as Switzerland when it comes to downloading torrents for personal use.
There are similar protections for personal information as well. Personal data associated with an IP address can only be revealed in the course of a criminal investigation. File-sharing is considered a civil matter. It should come as no surprise then that nearly one-third of Spaniards use file-sharing websites. Double the European Average. Source: Wikipedia. There are a number of VPN services with servers in Spain.
IPVanish is one of our favorites , thanks to their zero-logs policy , and incredibly fast speeds. However, there are several legal opinions that seem to legalize downloading for private use. Generally speaking, these are countries with no clear policy, or no enforcement mechanism for p2p downloaders. Regulators and lawmakers in Mexico have mostly ignored the rise of file-sharing. Torrents in Mexico are not blocked by most ISPs nor monitored in any official capacity. In all that changed, but the Netherlands still has a relatively free internet and minimal enforcement of p2p downloads.
Countries like Slovakia, Greece and Romania largely ignore filesharing. An exception is Russia, which has forced ISPs to block numerous torrent sites. The bulk of countries fall into this category, but not all are created equal. Some like the U. Learn More: Torrenting in Australia. Canada overhauled their copyright law with the Copyright Modernization act. Critics say this opens the door for trolls and extortion letters.
Learn More: Torrents in Canada. England and the UK have been on the hard edge of p2p enforcement from the beginning. The U. There was very little direct enforcement of torrent violations by US-based ISPs, other than throttling torrent downloads. Instead, most monitoring and enforcement activity is handled by rightsholders or companies that merely claim to hold the rights.
This means the U. Fortunately, some jurisdictions are wising up, after the Prenda Law scandal , and making it much harder for bad actors to extort downloaders. The number of leechers will affect your download speed as well. A leecher is a user that is downloading, but is not currently seeding.
A leecher becomes a seeder when the full file has been downloaded. If there are significantly more leechers than seeders, the amount of bandwidth you receive will be lower, resulting in slower downloads. Choose a torrent with a good size versus quality. This is especially important for video files. Because compression can affect quality, smaller files will often look and sound significantly poorer than the same video with a larger size. On the flipside, downloading a larger file can take significantly longer depending on your connection.
Read as many comments as possible to determine if other users feel that the quality of the file is good and worth your time. Some trackers have a rating system which allows users to vote on if the file is good or not. Download a magnet link if available. These files are slightly different than a standard torrent file. They match content based on a unique identifier that can then be accessed without the use of central trackers.
Make sure that you can run the content. Torrents can be used to transfer any file type. Because of this, the file you download may be one that you are not familiar with. VLC Player is a free, open-source media player that can play virtually any media file that you download. ISO files are disc images, and either need to be burned or mounted in a virtual drive in order to run them. Beware of viruses. Because torrents often exist in a legal gray area, there is no oversight as to the kinds of files that are made available.
This means that hackers will embed viruses in torrents that they hope to spread to other users. These are often included in popular searches in order to get the most victims possible. Scan every file that you download for viruses.
Try to download files that have been released by trusted sources in the community. Always check comments and ratings to see if anyone else experienced virus attacks with the torrent. Part 2. The BitTorrent protocol lets you exchange or distribute data over the Internet. There's no central server involved; data is downloaded from other users seeders. You need a client application that will connect to the host and manage the download. There are multiple clients available for free online.
The torrent file that you download from the tracker site is very small, usually only a few KB in size. This file does not contain the content that you are downloading. The file acts as a guide for downloading pieces of the file from other clients. Use the BitTorrent client you installed in the previous step to open the file. Your torrent client should be configured to automatically open torrent files.
If yours is not, you can drag the torrent file into the client window to add it to the download queue. Depending on how your torrent client is configured, you may be asked where you want to download the content to when you open the torrent file. Select a location that you can remember. You can check the progress of your download in the torrent client.
Most clients will allow you to see how many seeders you are connected to as well. Torrent clients will automatically try to download at the fastest speed allowed by your connection. Downloading multiple files at once will slow the overall speed of each file. From here you can limit the download speed and upload speed.
This is useful if you want to stream a movie while the file is downloading. Add more trackers to the torrent. If you are having difficulty connecting to enough seeders to download the file, you can try adding more trackers to the torrent.
Do not attempt this if you are using a private tracker, as you may get banned. Find a list of active trackers online. There are several websites that list active trackers.
Copy the list of trackers to your clipboard. Right-click on the torrent in the client. Select Properties from the menu. Select the General tab. You should see a list of trackers in a box there may be just one. Paste the list that you copied into the box. You need a blank line in between each tracker that you enter. Press OK and the torrent will automatically try connecting to the new trackers. Access your downloaded content. Once the download is complete, you can use the files that you downloaded as you normally would.
If you move or delete the files, you will lose the ability to seed. You cannot start using the file before it is finished downloading. Part 3. Seed after you finish downloading. Once you finish downloading the content of a torrent file, you become a seeder. This means that you are uploading data to other clients connected to the tracker.
Seeding is what keeps a torrent community alive. Without seeders, no one can download the files. While it's not required, it is considered a courtesy to seed for some time after the download finishes. Maintain a good ratio. If you are using a private community, you will most likely be expected to maintain a positive ratio with the community. This means that you will need to upload at least as much as you download.
Leave your torrent client running in the background. Most internet service plans have slower upload speeds than download speeds. This means that uploading to maintain your ratio can take significantly longer than downloading the equivalent amount. Leave your torrent program running in the background while you go about your daily tasks, and you'll see your upload totals skyrocket.
Running a torrent client in the background should not have a large effect on web browsing or word processing. More intensive applications such as streaming video and playing games may benefit from exiting the torrent application first. Occasionally, I download something that will play on my computer, but not on the TV from the memory device.
Can I convert the said item, or do I need to download specific file types? Not Helpful 1 Helpful RandomAir BGM. Go to a torrent tracking website, search for the torrent file, then download it. After downloading, use your torrent file manager uTorrent is good for professional downloading for free , and then extract your FIFA video files into any folder you'd like. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 8. Do I need to have the client running in the background in order to use the files?
If you have downloaded them, you can just open the files from the folder they were saved to. There is no need to have the client running in the background. Not Helpful 3 Helpful Not Helpful 4 Helpful 7. Torrents are only a method of downloading a file without a central server. The legality depends on the content inside. Not Helpful 8 Helpful How can I find out if a torrent has subtitles before I download it, and how can I remove them?
The description of the torrent may include subtitle information. If the torrent has regular subtitles they come as an. SRT file , you can either disable them in your player options or delete the subtitle file.
If the torrent is marked with "hardsub," then there's nothing you can do about it - the subtitles are part of the video itself, and can not be disabled. There is a android app called uTorrent. You can find it in Google Play, App Store etc. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 7. It depends on the type of file the movie is.
Not Helpful 0 Helpful 5. What do I do if the pictures and sound suffer delays after I've downloaded and started to play a video? It is good practice to hash check every downloaded torrent.
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