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ClearBits is a great place to find legal torrent downloads
Mininova underwent a rather forcible re-tooling last year and now serves legal content only. ClearBits is another option. It's the successor to LegalTorrents and offers music, video, TV episodes, software, and more -- and it's all Creative Commons licensed. ClearBits has added a social layer as well, providing a forum for each type of content they index. Since the site is new there aren't a lot of posts as yet, but that will no doubt change as the site grows.
One aspect in which services like this struggle is with amassing quality and recognizable content. However, if you're into discovering independent artists, filmmakers, animators, and writers, ClearBits is a site you'll want to bookmark.
[via Lifehacker]
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Subscribe to commentsSidApr 23rd 2010 9:32AM
Legal torrents .. huh .. we can download every legal thing from a server for free .. who need a torrent for that .. :(
bug frawgApr 23rd 2010 11:38AM
Actually torrents do have legal use.
It's great for large files as the bandwidth costs are dispersed among the peers.
MarcoApr 24th 2010 9:32AM
Didn't know that there were more than ten legal software titles available via Torrent :-o
richard.gaileyApr 27th 2010 11:13AM
@Sid, actually there is definitely a need for this. I know what you are saying in that quite a few legal programs/ films/ documentaries etc can be downloaded via servers etc. You are presuming that the user knows where the server is and the product he wishes to download.
By creating an indexing site for legal torrents like this, many people who create free/ open source software/ films/ documentaries/ brushes for photoshop etc won't have to create their own site to host the files on or find somewhere to host them and then get people interested in actually using their stuff. There is a ton of free and legal downloads out there that people just don't know about as unless you know what the exact name of it is or the developer, how would you go about finding it.
This way you can go to the legal indexing site and browse (hopefully that's how it is done) by category (films on tech/ physics etc) and find stuff that you never would have thought about watching.
It also saves people a lot of money in bandwidth cost as it's now done via P2P thus negating the need for hosting costs/issues.
Hope I made that clear as I'm not really good at explaining things.
Example of what I mean: There are quite a few TV shows out there that I would have never watched if it weren't for P2P, but I found them by looking in the TV Shows section of certain indexing sites and became a fan of them that way. If the show or film was really good, then I'll also buy the box-set or DVD. That would never of happened otherwise. I know what I have just said is frowned upon by a lot of people, but most of my box-set and DVD collection has been brought due to the fact that I saw the film/ TV Show first (or a taster) via P2P; liked it, so bought it.
I know that P2P is frowned upon, as the BitTorrent protocol can/ is abused quite a bit, but it is a fantastic way for artists to get noticed without having to pay music companies their souls just for a chance of actually making it.
Probably going off track now and into another area of P2P that I feel quite strongly about.