Introduction: How to Be a Cyber Pirate!
I am not responsible for any legal issues ;P
Step 1: Download and Install a Torrent Client
I don't know which one you want personally I prefer uTorrent
Step 2: Searching for a Torrent
The biggest problem with torrents is that people don't always seed, these people are referred to as leechers.
I usually go to www.thepiratebay.org or www.mininova.org
once you get there pick something you would like to have; software, music, movies, books, "illegal" documents(i.e. The Anarchists Cook Book - yes its technically illegal because you have to put yourself on a registrar upon purchase.), etc
Step 3: Selecting Your Torrent
in the image below we have several options, your best two options are outlined in red.
First off we choose our best options from the title of the torrent, the two I have selected both have detailed titles, one even going so far as to explain how it was made, the other giving the authors name (which is accurate), both give the title of the book and the year it was published.
to narrow down our choice we then look at the seeds, this is highlighted in bright green, and the leechers which is hilighted in blue
The first torrent: The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell(1971){badluck13_7} has 7 seeds, and 0 leechers. This is okay, but before we select this torrent we will check the next
The second torrent: The Anarchist Cookbook (1971 book scanned) the ORIGINAL book has 43 seeds and 0 leechers, this makes the second torrent your best choice. dclick the torrents title
On this screen you will want to read the comments for any complications with the download
Step 4: Downloading
Click the download link, and it will download the .torrent file which should automatically open with uTorrent, or your chosen application, and begin to download. Congratulations, you just downloaded your first torrent and are on your way to being a pirate. Now Remember seed do not leech
26 Comments
8 years ago on Introduction
Download the stuff WARNING : Don't Upload or you will be in cuffs
8 years ago on Step 4
Pirate:Any last wishes
Suspect : I just want to tell that I seed torrents
Pirate: Bye :)
10 years ago on Introduction
People, it's very, very, unlikely the cops will be at your doorstep if you do this.
They go after the guys who distribute copyrighted things in mass amounts, not the guys who download them.
11 years ago on Step 3
Hey I downloaded the anarchy cook book a few years ago and found it full of lies.
I'm not saying its a bad book, its just over half the stuff is outdated and the rest either doesn't work or is useless.
just say'in...
Reply 11 years ago on Introduction
Yeah,,, just think of the peeps thats spent GOOD money for that (also some of the stuff is Dagerous becuse they dont tell you enough !!!!!!!!!!!!
13 years ago on Introduction
Screw it being illegal! If every country was fair to each other, we wouldn't need to pirate to get some good stuff. (Also, FYI, it's okay to download a torrent, iso or rom of something you have, like: If you have an origial Castlevania Symphony of the Night, then you can download and keep the iso.)
14 years ago on Introduction
Don't you think that that is a tiny weeny little bit illegal? P.S. I don't wanting authorities turning up at the doorstep only because I downloaded something
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
They don't turn up, but it is way illegal.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
thought so... lol
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
But it is free. So is stealing, but what happens if you put your jewels out the front door for people to model their cuff-links off of them? That is torrenting.
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
a good analogy but not quite right, wouldn't hold up in court if you claimed this it would go under plagiarism and with big companies it could be a lot worse than theft.
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
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13 years ago on Introduction
how likely are you to get in trouble for this
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
not very likley
Reply 13 years ago on Introduction
still illegal.
14 years ago on Introduction
don't seed and you can't be traced
14 years ago on Introduction
I tried to download spore there my computer said "17 days, 9 hours, and something seconds" (my computer is 9 years old.)
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Spore is a pretty big game, probably a couple gigs, on my network it would probably take a day or too to download it, so I would be downloading files like that
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
Size does not matter, ha ha I myself find that funny but no really it doesn't matter. I once had a download of the nightmare before Christmas going (702mb) and a download of Halo 2 going (4.28GB) at the same time, Halo 2 was done downloading within a few hours and I had it installed and running on my computer in about an hour after downloading, the nightmare before Christmas didn't finish downloading for another 3 days. Everything depends on peers
Reply 14 years ago on Introduction
it depends on your network and/or peers
check out my instructable SPEED UP UTORRENT