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How to make your own torrents and upload them to a public tracker
This week's series of tips is all about downloading files via BitTorrent. We'll highlight ways in which to torrent more efficiently, obtain higher download speeds, and generally make the whole process easier. For more tech tips, check our Tips index.To wrap up our series of BitTorrent tips, we're going to show you how to make your own torrents. After all, torrents have to come from somewhere, right? You've been leeching for years -- isn't it time to give something back?
Just follow these simple steps:
- Open up your BitTorrent client of choice. uTorrent, Vuze, Transmission -- whichever, they all work in the same way
- File > Create Torrent (or simply hit the 'Create' button, if there is one)
- Select a source file or directory -- this can be absolutely anything
- Now you need to find some trackers. If you're making a torrent for a private torrent index, make sure you use its tracker. Otherwise, paste all of the following into the box:
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce
http://tracker.torrent.to:2710/announce - If you want to add a comment, go for it! Include your name, website, email address -- whatever you like
- Make sure Private Torrent is unchecked, unless you're creating a torrent for a private tracker
- Click Create -- then add the new torrent to your client and start seeding!
If you want to share your torrent publicly, you need to upload the torrent to an index like The Pirate Bay. First register an account, and then simply click 'Upload torrent' -- the method is the same for uploading to a private site (just make sure you've used its private tracker!)
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsKrazyCalvinFeb 4th 2011 6:56PM
It is 2011... I thought this did itself.
KrazyCalvinFeb 5th 2011 1:41PM
@KrazyCalvin
On second thought I guess you do usually need to get the tracker information. That is usually listed either in the torrents "upload" section or in their FAQ.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 5th 2011 1:43PM
@KrazyCalvin Hehe. Yeah, you can do 'trackerless', via magnet URIs and stuff -- but to be honest, I've never done that.
BCFeb 5th 2011 5:38PM
You know: some of us are software developers and do not appreciate sites like Download Squad publishing information to help people not pay us for our hard work. As far as I see it, Download Squad is getting Ad revenue by screwing over people doing work to keep the public entertained and more productive. Seems awfully selfish of you.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 5th 2011 7:28PM
@BC We cover all aspects of software. Ignoring BitTorrent would simply be a case of biased reporting.
Many legitimate software companies use BitTorrent to distribute their stuff you know!
Lee MathewsFeb 5th 2011 7:50PM
@BC We're in the process of using BT to distribute our agency business forms where I work during the day. This is 2011, there are more uses for torrents than downloading movies or pirated software.
majoraFeb 5th 2011 6:05PM
@BC no reason to get pissed. In fact if you develop good software you may see it get posted here on this very blog. Since download squad seems like an authority on software, that means you can get very good traffic and more sales to you. ;). What software do you develop anyways, I want to see it???
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 5th 2011 7:28PM
@majora Thanks for the kind and sensible words :)
BCFeb 5th 2011 9:57PM
@Sebastian Anthony "Ignoring BitTorrent would simply be a case of biased reporting."
That's a BS argument. Why don't you post information about how to steal products from stores without setting off their theft protection devices? Why not post about how to ruffie women in bars? How about how to trade child pornography and not get caught? How about posting information on how to spread viruses on the internet, hack into people's email accounts, or send spam and not get caught? All of those last few are computer related. What, now you suddenly found your moral center? Not reporting on those things must make you guilty of "biased reporting", doesn't it? You suddenly see yourself as enabling bad behavior on the internet? Sounds like a double standard to me. Almost as if you *approve* of piracy and want to help people commit it.
Sebastian AnthonyFeb 6th 2011 6:36AM
@BC Hum... well, for a start, let's stay within the confines of technology.
If you want to stretch the analogy, wouldn't making a torrent be something like making your own clothing garment?
Yes, you _can_ use torrents for piracy, but they can also be used for many other things. Heck, Web browsers can be used to surf illegal content, but should we stop writing about them? All of those security measures that we discussed during the Firesheep/Gawker Media debacles -- they can also hide very illegal behavior, but that doesn't mean we're going to ignore it.
I don't condone piracy, but I do think content/software distribution needs to improve somewhat if piracy is to become less of an issue.
KevinFeb 6th 2011 3:48PM
@BC BT: You don't know nearly enough about file sharing or the psychology involved if you blame BT for so-called piracy. BT software can't do anything on its own. It requires the input of a user. Your concern need not lie in what a given program can do but with the people who use that programs for nefarious purposes.
unopepito06Feb 27th 2011 11:13PM
@BC
Bittorrent ≠ piracy.
Your argument is a joke. First of all, as Anthony said, trying to compare digital copyright infringement to date-raping a human is a bit of a stretch, to say the least.
You think benign information should be repressed because it poses a possibility of crime?! Since you're so keen to take something like theft of the written word and compare it to IRL pain and evil, then by that logic, all firearms training should be immediately banned and criminalized: if a killer took that class and learned how to use a gun, he would kill someone, right? Therefore it must be stopped!
And come to think of it, I think we should abolish all college Science classes in schools: those students could use their newfound knowledge to build weapons of all sorts, including nuclear weapons - they might come and kill my family! We have to do something about this!!!
If we let information be passed around freely, everyone will use it against us. We must not let people get it! Seems like I've heard that idea somewhere before... like, a long time ago...
P.S. dude, I took a look at your comment history: bit of a one-trick pony, aren't you? Haha, what a joke...