We are a group of uploaders and admins from ExtraTorrent. As you know, SAM from ExtraTorrent pulled the plug yesterday and took all data offline under pressure from authorities. We were in deep shock and have been working hard to get it back online with all previous data.
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We have successfully resurrected it back to its glory at extratorrent.cd with all available data. It's live and new data is continuously being updated. Some small features are not yet working and we are getting it fixed as we speak. Our group had previously resurrected The Pirate Bay and KickAss Torrents (as kickass.cd) when these went offline. These sites are our home and we won't let anyone destroy them.
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When The Pirate Bay went down back in 2015 after being raided by Swedish authorities, there were several Pirate Bay sites that popped up in the days following. Could these have been die-hard fans and admins as well, or was it something more nefarious at the hands of clever law enforcement? Considering the lack of stories surrounding any arrests, we'd have to assume that everything then was as legit as it is now.
Speaking of die-hard fans, Extratorrent2.cc has also popped up. It appears to be (as I'm told in my Twitter DMs) a 100% working fan-made alternative clone of Extratorrent. Use at your own risk.
There is always a tinge of paranoia when it comes to the death and immediate resurrection of torrent sites. It's got that kind of feeling like buying stereo equipment out of the back of a van from an undercover cop. Using a VPN against malicious software is one thing, but actively downloading or uploading via a site run by some high-tech law enforcement cabal... nah, who am I kidding? What police force has those resources?
Whether or not ExtraTorrent.cd is the real deal or manages to stick around for a while is yet to be determined. By all visual accounts it seems to be just fine and providing the standard, expected function of that of a torrent site — to download The Bachelorette so you can watch it in secret.
Update: 5/24/2017 As I alluded to in the previous paragraph, the immediate re-emerging of torrent sites can be fishy. Torrentfreak is now reporting that ExtraTorrent.cd is a Pirate Bay mirror with an ExtraTorrent skin. So, fun times in torrent land.
Also see: 30 Content Companies Coalesce Into Amorphous Blob To Fight Torrent Sites, Online Piracy
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When The Pirate Bay went down back in 2015 after being raided by Swedish authorities, there were several Pirate Bay sites that popped up in the days following. Could these have been die-hard fans and admins as well, or was it something more nefarious at the hands of clever law enforcement? Considering the lack of stories surrounding any arrests, we'd have to assume that everything then was as legit as it is now.
Speaking of die-hard fans, Extratorrent2.cc has also popped up. It appears to be (as I'm told in my Twitter DMs) a 100% working fan-made alternative clone of Extratorrent. Use at your own risk.
There is always a tinge of paranoia when it comes to the death and immediate resurrection of torrent sites. It's got that kind of feeling like buying stereo equipment out of the back of a van from an undercover cop. Using a VPN against malicious software is one thing, but actively downloading or uploading via a site run by some high-tech law enforcement cabal... nah, who am I kidding? What police force has those resources?
Whether or not ExtraTorrent.cd is the real deal or manages to stick around for a while is yet to be determined. By all visual accounts it seems to be just fine and providing the standard, expected function of that of a torrent site — to download The Bachelorette so you can watch it in secret.
Update: 5/24/2017 As I alluded to in the previous paragraph, the immediate re-emerging of torrent sites can be fishy. Torrentfreak is now reporting that ExtraTorrent.cd is a Pirate Bay mirror with an ExtraTorrent skin. So, fun times in torrent land.
When it comes to torrents, one of the most commonly asked questions is “Is downloading torrents legal or illegal?” Torrent clients, such as uTorrent Vuze and the official BitTorrent client, are used to download immense amounts of data on the Web, and there’s no question that much of it is illegal. Here we’ll talk about how torrent downloads work, when they’re illegal, and how to protect your privacy when you’re using them.
So What Is Legal and What Is Illegal?
The short answer: as long as the item is copyrighted and you don’t own it, then downloading it (for free) via torrent is illegal. Using a torrent client and downloading torrents in itself isn’t illegal, as you could be downloading things that aren’t protected by copyright.
The long answer: This varies from case to case. Most countries have basic common laws against intellectual property theft. If a piece of music is copyrighted and you don’t own it, you can’t download it legally. The same goes for a movie, a game, or anything else you may want (unless the copyright-holder decides to make it free either temporarily or permanently, as is often the case with video games). The line gets kind of fuzzy here, since people ask themselves many different questions about their own country’s laws.
In general, a copyright is registered to an individual or organization that creates something. This copyright has a time limit, usually equivalent to the lifetime of the creator and a set amount of additional years. Some copyrights are for life plus fifty years. Others are for life plus seventy years. Look up your country in the previous link if you’re unsure of your laws. Of course, your mileage may vary, as some things may not be protected by the law where you live, or copyright law may not be enforced at all.
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So if you’re downloading a free Linux distribution through your torrent client, you don’t need to worry. But if you’re getting John Lennon’s “Imagine” from The Pirate Bay, you’re doing something that in all likelihood is breaking a law.
Related: How to Download Torrents onto Your iOS Device Without Jailbreaking
Torrent Privacy
Whatever it is you’re doing is not any of my business. But it is my business to make sure you know just how “anonymous” you are in the torrent network. The short answer is: you totally aren’t!
It’s handy to have a basic knowledge of how the torrent protocol works. Theoretically you should have some level of privacy since you’re not downloading any data from one particular server (in contrast to downloading something from a central server like you’d find on Microsoft’s website, where they’ll know exactly who it is that’s downloading their products).
But through the torrent system you download directions to a file. That means that the torrent file is actually just a list of trackers and some hash codes. It doesn’t really prove that you downloaded the torrent file. What you do inside your torrent client is more important, and that’s all managed by a decentralized list of servers. Once you start the download of the actual file you want to get to, you end up downloading little pieces of the file from a bunch of people.
Can You Get Caught?
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Government agents and copyright trolls tend to snoop around the Torrent networks, and some of the more popular sites hosting Torrent files, downloading files and listing all the IP addresses they find under the Peers (downloaders) and Seeders (uploaders) lists. This will, of course, compromise your address eventually.
The actual number of people who get caught is miniscule, but if you want to secure yourself and don’t care much to contribute to the Torrent community, then you can disable seeding which stops your PC uploading files to the torrent network. Avid torrenters would call this selfish, and maybe they’re right, but you’re also covering yourself.
Another good option is to use a proxy or VPN, then set your torrent client to connect to peers through that. This essentially makes you anonymous by routing your connection through a different IP address.
Then there’s the onion routing network (Tor) that you can configure as a proxy for your torrent client. However, since the Snowden revelations it’s become known that even Tor has been targeted by the NSA and GCHQ for illegal activity. While the network is mostly secure, there have been incidents of these spy bodies attacking individual computers, so it’s not as anonymous as it once was.
Conclusion
Rest assured that torrenting does not equate to piracy. It does, however, provide a very convenient way to do it! The torrent protocol is just a clever transmission method for users to download files more easily. If you’re worried that you may be downloading something that’s against the laws in your country, ask below.
This article was first published in Jun 2013 and was updated in Nov 2017.
Image credit: Pirate Bay main page