Finding Publicly Tracked Torrents

A guide to help people find publicly tracked torrents *(updated December 23, 2017)

First..

Be wary of publicly tracked torrents inherent insecurity!

Anyone using publicly tracked torrents should seriously consider using a VPN to mask their IP address

Using a VPN will disguise your IP address, encrypt your internet traffic and hide the fact that you are using bittorrent from anyone monitoring you (your ISP, your university, etc)

Using a VPN will also bypass site blocking, geo-blocking and any network restrictions on P2P (throttling, etc)

Anti-piracy monitor IP addresses in the swarms of publicly tracked torrents (The Pirate Bay, 1337x, etc) in order to send DMCA/copyright infringement letters/etc to internet service providers/universities/etc

Most universities ban P2P and monitor their networks for evidence of piracy

Having repeated violations (DMCA, notification of piracy, etc) can lead to serious consequences from your ISP/university/etc (warnings, bandwidth throttling, account termination, expulsion, etc)

Use a VPN to avoid the dangers of publicly tracked torrents

or.. consider switching entirely to private torrent trackers (while possibly using a seedbox to avoid bans on P2P)

Anti-piracy rarely monitor the IP addresses in the swarms of private torrent trackers

Second..

I recommend using one of these 4 Bittorrent Clients

qBittorrent

Deluge

uTorrent 2.2.1

Transmission

I do not recommend using any other clients (Vuze, BitComet, BitLord, etc)

Nearly all other clients are unstable, inefficient and/or malicious

Then..

Use a combination of these 3 steps

1) Search public torrent indexes individually

thepiratebay.org (.onion)

Example search > thepiratebay.org

1337x.to

Example search > 1337x.to

rarbg.to

Example search > rarbg.to

zooqle.com

Example search > zooqle.com

More public torrent indexes @ /links/publicly-tracked-torrents/#indexes

2) Use a search engine like Torrentz2.eu

Note: Torrentz2.eu has recently removed all external torrent indexes and links from their site. However, the torrent hashes are still available, use one of the following chrome extensions to provide magnet/torrent links for the content indexed there

Torrentz2 Magnet Links + (.torrent + magnet links)
Magnet Links for Torrentz2 (magnet links only)

torrentz2.eu (.onion)

Example search > torrentz2.eu

More search engines @ /links/publicly-tracked-torrents/#searchengines

3) Search on Google (search for the name of the content + torrent)

google.com

Example search > google.com

Tips for Searching more Efficiently

1) Be as specific as possible with keywords

2) When looking for specific content, limit the keywords to the most central word(s)

3) Sort by size, date, peers (popularity)

4) Search for the content by itself and inside a large pack

5) If there are multiple releases with the same name from different years, include the year

More publicly tracked torrent search engines, indexes, trackers, etc @ /links/publicly-tracked-torrents/