Private Torrent Sites

There are about a thousand torrent sites. Many are very popular but secluded and require registration and ratio requirements. But many are public and require nothing from the user but his time and attention.

Running a torrent site costs money and a lot of full time attention. Anyone can run a torrent site by downloading the free site kit, hiring a hosting service, and setting up their site. Torrent sites don’t actually host any copyrighted files so they don’t require a lot of hard disk space but they do hold torrent files which are text files, encrypted with internet directions to copyrighted files all over the world. And when those torrents are downloaded and inserted into your P2P application, it is the P2P application that goes out and finds the file – and generally it finds parts of the file all over the internet and downloads all of them until the entire file is collected.

Private torrent sites are private for a reason. They want to stay out of the limelight so copyright holders like music and movie companies can’t harass or threaten legal action against them for offering an avenue of download of their copyrighted material. And the majority of private torrent sites are found outside the US. Sweden, Germany, Italy and many other countries do not believe American’s have a right to claim “intellectual property” in their own country. In the U.S. sure, they can claim it but once it crosses the border in to Oslo then it is fair game.

To pay the hosting costs of a private torrent site, the owner often enforces a ratio requirement. For every file you download you must leave that file in your P2P application so others can upload it. That amount of data transferred from your account is recorded and weighed against your downloads. Most sites push a 2 to 1 ratio so for every two files you download you must upload half the equivalent amount of data back. It doesn’t matter which files you offer to upload back as long as they came from the site you originally downloaded them from. Other ways to increase your ratio amount, especially if you have a slow connection of very little upload bandwidth, is to donate to the site using PayPal. They will have a donate button and will accept donations from as little as one U.S. dollar to 100 U.S. dollars. You’ll find one dollar increases your download ration a lot and is usually enough to sustain your activity at the site.

Private torrent sites require registration of some kind. They don’t care what name or email account you use, they just require you to be a real person because there are many “bots” out there that simulate real people and those bots try to sign on and take over the site causing real members to be pushed aside. So you will need to register. Create a fake email account with Yahoo or Gmail or whatever, using any name you like but remember that name and email address and use it on all your private torrent sites. Register and they will send you an email to verify that you are a real live person along with a link to confirm your membership. Once confirmed you are in!

Private torrent sites generally specialize in particular type of torrents. There are TV sites with rare, retro, British, Italian, and hard-to-find TV shows as well as “classic movie” sites offering old great movies. The genres are extensive: mac files, windows files, old music, new music, special music, etc. So you’ll want to register and participate in those sites that interest you most.

So how do you find the private torrent sites? You'll have to do a little digging and pay more attention to those files you do download. Oftentimes, inside of those downloaded torrents you will find the originating private torrent site's name and/or url. You can also utilize FireFox 3.0 and the Torrent Finder Bar. The bar is an addon you install in seconds and it will allow you to search hundreds of torrent sites, public and private, for a particular file or file name. When you find the file you want to download and it is on a private site, you register and download the file.