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YouTorrent is back, and it's bringing 67k legal torrents with it

Attention, law-abiding citizens! If you believe in BitTorrent as a means of distribution for large files, but you're concerned about the claims of piracy that are often associated with it, you should take a look at YouTorrent. Despite having to shut down for a while because of legal issues, YouTorrent is back in operation, with a reported 67,170 torrents that are all legal to share.

YouTorrent is a meta-search that can find verified torrents across a number of popular torrent sites, including Jamendo, Vuze, BitTorrent, Legaltorrents, Legittorrents, Gameupdates, Wortharchiving, BT.etree and Mininova's featured torrents section. With all those sites combined, you can use YouTorrent to search over 6TB of data. This is a very good thing for the torrent community in general, as it shows how widely BitTorrent is used for non-piracy purposes.

[via TorrentFreak]

Filed under: Internet, P2P

LegalTorrents relaunches, with a whopping 44 torrents

LegalTorrents
While many of the files you can download using BitTorrent are illegal, copyrighted works such as Hollywood movies, music from major labels, or commercial software, there's nothing inherently illegal about BitTorrent. It's just an internet protocol, much like FTP or HTTP.

So it stands to reason that if you want to avoid illegal downloads, there should be a go-to location for legal torrents, perhaps with an easy to remember name like LegalTorrents. Hey, what do you know? There is. LegalTorrents actually launched way back in 2003 when BitTorrent was still pretty new. This week the site has relaunched with a nice, clean interface and a grand total of 44 files you can download without guilt. That includes 9 songs, 9 movies, and 3 video games. We'd complain that there's no way to search for torrents, but the rather tiny selection kind of makes the point moot right now.

Anyone can download files, but you'll need to register for an account to upload torrents of Creative Commons licensed media. Hopefully the selection will grow soon, as LegalTorrents is really a great idea. But could someone please add a search feature before the content library grows too large?

[via NewTeeVee]

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