The Pirate Bay

Think about torrents and the first name that comes to your mind is “The Pirate Bay”. The Pirate Bay is the grand daddy of all torrent search engines and trackers. The guys are facing legal threats, they are been condemned, but they have a mission, a message, and boy do they kick some ass! We all like TPB, don’t we? The Pirate Bay tracks the largest number of torrents (I won’t even bother mentioning a number here, because it is going to be miles off in a month). Not only they have a huge collection of torrents, TPB is also concerned about your privacy and constantly makes tracking users difficult. They also have a sort of user Karma. There are VIP users, trusted users so that you can find out which of the users are trusted and you can download the files with ease and peace of mind.

Mininova

Like “The Pirate Bay”, Mininova tracks torrents and has a large collection of them. It is believed that if you can’t find the torrent you are looking for on either The Pirate Bay or Mininova then there is a good chance that the torrent doesn’t exist. A peculiar fact about Mininova is that the site doesn’t index adult torrents. Moreover the site is clean and I don’t think I have seen “aggressive (as in family content)” advertisements to this day on Mininova. So if you are at work and want to search some torrents to remotely trigger downloads at your home computer, better check it out.

Vertor

Although not exactly a torrent search engine, Vertor is a nice site to have in your repertoire if you are an avid torrent user. Vertor servers constantly downloads torrents and checks them for viruses, passwords, DRM etc. The site then provides you snippets that can help you identify if the torrent actually has the content you were looking for. You will get screenshots for video files, sound previews for audio files and so on.

Demonoid

Demonoid is definately up there among the best. However to download torrent files indexed by Demonoid, you are required to have an account. The account, although free to create, is not owned by everyone out there. The registrations are open only for some time and you require an invitation to get into Demonoid. If you manage to get an account you will see why this is one of the best.

When you download a torrent you are downloading direct from other people like yourself, there are no central servers. People who have a full copy of the files and are uploading them are called ‘seeds’. People who have part of the files and are downloading them are called ‘leechers’ or ‘peers’. Peers also upload as they download.

Finally, if you are planning to upload a torrent you must make sure that you will be able to seed it for long enough for people to download a full copy of the files from you.

Lets get started:

01. Download the utorrent from here, utorrent or from here, all other version for creating and downloading the torrent files.
It doesn’t need installation, just execute the package.

02. Now when you open the utorrent and click the icon shown below:

Or you can click Ctrl+N or go to ‘File -> Create New Torrent…’ under file menu.

03. A box will appear as shown below. If you are to upload a single file then click ‘Add file’ (1).
If you are uploading a folder with 2 or more files in it then click ‘Add directory’ (2).
Here I’ll add a directory, but the principle is just the same if you are uploading a single file.

04. Now browse to the folder which you want to upload. Then click ‘OK’.

05. Now comes the most important part. You now have to fill the URLs of the trackers you wish to use.

They are of two types:
a> Public trackers [accessible by everyone]
b> Private trackers [available only to private members]

A list of few public trackers are listed below:

PIRATEBAY WORKING:

http://a.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://open.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://tpb.tracker.prq.to/announce

http://tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

http://tracker.prq.to/announce

http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce.php

http://tv.tracker.prq.to/announce

http://vip.tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

WORKING:

http://61.175.209.125:6969/announce

http://85.17.40.41:80/announce

http://bt-dbfr.shonencenter.net:8000/announce

http://bt.btbbt.com:7272/announce

http://bt.cngba.com:8000/announce

http://bt.tgbus.com:8080/announce

http://bw.tracker.bitwar.ru:3552/announce

http://deez-torrents.findhere.org:2710/announce

http://locustracker.findhere.org:2710/announce

http://modernmodem.no-ip.org:6969/announce

http://paranoya.homelinux.org:6969/announce

http://torrentz.ofgods.com:2710/announce

http://torrentdealer.ath.cx:6969/announce

http://torrential.dontexist.org/announce.php

http://tracker.bitebbs.com:6969/announce

http://tracker.btminer.com:2710/announce

http://tracker.deluxebits.to:3552/announce

http://tracker.torrent.to:2710/announce

http://unme.findhere.org:2710/announce

http://www.kompletlywyred.com:8702/announce

http://www.minitalk.net:50555/announce

http://www.sumotracker.com/announce

http://www.supanova.biz/tracker/announce.php

http://www.the-underdogs.info:6969/announce

http://www.torrent-downloads.to:2710/announce

OFFLINE:

http://72.174.173.55:6969/announce

http://bittorrent.dyndns.org:6969/announce

http://ezard.ma.cx:6969/announce

http://pbt.net.pl:2710/announce

http://tk2.greedland.net:80/announce

http://torrent-chillaz.no-ip.org:6969/

http://torrent-downloads.deants.com:2710/announce

http://tracker.ydy.com:102/announce

http://tracker.piecesnbits.net:2710/announce

http://www.torrentvideos.com:6969/announce

NOT WORKING:

http://bt1.ali213.net:6969/announce

http://gamebt.ali213.net:8000/announce

http://gm-realm.net:2710/announce

http://hpd-crew.homeftp.net:2710/announce

http://torrent-chillaz.no-ip.org:6969/

http://service.elstreeschool.org.uk:6969/announce

http://tracker.freshtorrents.org:2710/announce

http://tracker.reprobate.se:2710/announce

http://tracker.speedtorrent.to:2710/announce

For private trackers, look in the trackers area of the private torrent service provider.

06. Now fill in the URLs of the trackers, either from above or the ones you wish to use.
If you want to use more than one tracker then separate each tracker URL with a blank line.

Warning:Uploading copyright-protected material might be prohibited by law in some countries. Torrent sites not take any responsibility for your submissions.

07. Now tick the ‘Start seeding box’

And then click ‘Create and save as…’ button

08. A new window will pop up asking you to select the place to save the .torrent file. Select the place and then click on ‘Save’ button

09. Now when the uploading is done 100% in utorrent then go to your favorite torrent site and upload the .torrent file which you have saved in the previous step.

10. Now download the uploaded torrent file and navigate it to the folder which you used to create the torrent file. When done 100% downloading leave it for seeding so that others downloading your torrent file gets good speeds.