To do that, let’s start at the beginning. But these corporate-backed efforts are little more than self-serving moral crusades, effectively a big societal guilt trip, and a false one at that.īy the time you finish reading this guide, you’ll see how and why BitTorrent is easy, ethical, and safe to use.
DELUGE TORRENT MAKE NOTE FREE
If you’ve heard anything about “downloading free movies on the Internet,” you probably heard of BitTorrent or its more colloquial synonym, “torrents.” You have also probably heard of companies threatening BitTorrent users with Internet service bans, financial penalties, and even lawsuits for “stealing intellectual property.” Through expensive and coordinated campaigns, companies like Disney and others represented by special interest groups like the RIAA and MPAA try to convince people that BitTorrent is hard, immoral, and unsafe to use. And since the most widely used and arguably most effective digital media distribution technology is BitTorrent, that’s what we’ll focus on today. All I want this guide to do is help you access the material you want, whatever that material is, regardless of why you want it, safely and anonymously. This guide isn’t trying to tell you what you should do—that’s your government’s job. These reasons range from the personal (Netflix doesn’t have the show you’re really into right now) to the political (fuck Netflix and also fuck capitalism) and everything in between (you don’t have “discretionary income” because, y’know, capitalism, but whatevs). There are, of course, many reasons why you might want to get media at no cost.
If you’re going to read this how-to guide, I’m not going to assume you need to be convinced that downloading movies and other digital media like music, eBooks, games, and so on is something worth doing. Things will make more sense to you more quickly. Also, if you do have some experience with BitTorrent, all the better. Note: This guide assumes you never used BitTorrent before, and that you want to start learning about it with a safety focus from the outset, but it does assume you understand basic computer and Web lingo like “website address” and “downloading.” If you’re new to BitTorrent and don’t care about staying private, then LifeHacker’s “A beginner’s guide to BitTorrent” or “The Torrent Guide for Everyone” at may be more your speed.