track how many downloads a torrent has gotten Open and working torrent tracker list for 2020 – Increase your download speeds. Another year, another torrent tracker list on my website. In this article, you will once again find the a fresh list of open trackers that are fully working. The general advantage of (manually) adding torrent trackers to your downloads is increase the download speed, because you are potentially connected to more seeds and peers. What is a torrent tracker? A torrent tracker is actually some kind of server. That server is connected to the internet and keeps track of which persons are currently ‘connected’ to a given torrent file: the seeds and the peers. Both a seed and a peer will help you – potentially – gain a higher download speed. Here is a brief explanation of the difference between both: The peers: the people who have not yet have all the full files, so they are both downloading the file(s) and uploading to other peers. The BitTorrent protocol is not for nothing called a ‘P2P’ (Peer to Peer°) communication protocol. The seeds: the seeds already have all the files fully available and are no longer downloading. The main task of the seed is to upload to the peers. A torrent tracker helps you discover these peers and seeds. What are the benefits of adding more torrent trackers? So given a torrent tracker keeps track of who is uploading and downloading that particular torrent, it can be interesting for you to be connected to a whole bunch of torrent trackers. Because more torrent trackers may give you a wider audience of peers and seeds who can upload the file(s) to you: and this will give you a speed advantage compared to when you are connected to a low number of peers/seed. Example: let’s say you want to download an old version of a Linux distribution for testing purposes. The old version is often no longer downloaded much, because in most cases people will download the latest version available. In this case, when you download the torrent file, you may see 4 seeds. With only 4 seed, and you may not maximise your potential download speed. By adding some additional torrent trackers, 4 more seeds are now discovered and start uploading data to your client. You virtually doubled your download speed. This can greatly reduce the time needed to completely download the files in that torrent. How to add a torrent tracker in uTorrent and other programs? Every torrent download program works a bit different. But luckily, adding a list of torrent trackers is quite easy in all of them. I will give an example for one popular download program: uTorrent. In uTorrent, right click on the desired torrent file which is downloading. The, click on ‘advanced’. In the dedicated file, you append the list that you copied (for example from this web page). Before you torrent, think about a decent VPN service. To further secure your torrent downloads, I personally recommend to explore to active a VPN service. A VPN will minimise only tracking of your activity, or hide your location. Take a look at RusVPN, who is currently offering some nice discounts. Torrent tracker list 2020. And here it is, a list of torrent trackers that are fully working at this moment and don’t require registration or payment in any sort (they are open for the public). You will notice that between each torrent tracker URL, there is a new line. This is on purpose: most torrent download programs require this specific format. People who torrent are monitored, recorded within 3 hours of download [Study] Do you enjoy the occasional movie off of The Pirate Bay? Or maybe you prefer a “private” torrent club? As it turns out, regardless of if you are torrenting off The Pirate Bay or exclusive, members-only torrent clubs, your IP address is not safe. Dr. Tom Chothia and other computer scientists from Birmingham University conducted a three-year research study in which they found a somewhat astonishing trend: the IP addresses of people who illegally torrent popular content is monitored and recorded within three hours of the download. As part of their research, Dr. Chothia and his team developed their own BitTorrent tracker that logged all the connections that where made to it. According to their research paper, Dr. Chothia and team used their tool to “gather newly-published torrent files from the Top 100 in each category on The Pirate Bay, and continually contacts each of the trackers and stores (IP address, port number, infohash, time) tuples from the peer lists that are returned; it then attempts to establish a TCP connection with each host and sends a handshake message to ensure that the host is in fact BitTorrent peer. The monitor also requests from trackers the number of seeders and leechers in each swarm.” Using this method, the team was able to gather over 150GB worth of BitTorrent activity involving 1,033 swarms and 421 trackers, over a time span of roughly two years. In the process of the just-mentioned data mining, the researchers discovered roughly 10 monitoring companies that were (are) logging downloader data. Some of these monitors were identified as copyright enforcement firms, researchers, and security firms while the six biggest monitors were unable to be identified because of the way they routed their traffic through third-party services. According to Dr. Chothia, it does not matter if you are a regular downloader or download once a in a while — the above-mentioned monitoring companies log the data of anyone and everyone. If you downloaded popular content, your information is logged within roughly three hours while the monitoring of less popular content is also prevalent but not as much. You don’t have to be a mass downloader. Someone who downloads a single movie will be logged as well. If the content was in the top 100 it was monitored within hours. Someone will notice and it will be recorded. -Dr. Chothia. While it may seem plausible for monitoring to happen on public torrent trackers, private torrent clubs should prevent it, right? Not so. Dr. Chothia’s team discovered that private torrenting clubs, you know the ones that provide access to members only and supposedly blacklist monitoring firms, are not very effective: Many of the monitors we found weren’t on the blocklists so these measures to bypass the monitors aren’t really working. Interestingly enough, while some of the logged information will definitely be used to try to extort money out of illegal file sharers, the researchers mention that some of the firms collecting the torrent data are “simply sitting on the data” in the hope that such information will be useful in the future. On the other hand, other monitoring firms are selling the collected data for marketing purposes — to help show what movies, TV shows, etc. is popular where. As expected, people aren’t exactly happy about this despite the questionable actions of file sharers. As one commentator puts it, file sharing may be illegal but so is monitoring Internet usage without a warrant (or so he thinks) — does that mean the victims of torrent monitoring can sue the monitors: Okay illegal downloading is stealing, but what of monitoring my internet use without a court order. Can I demand a copy of all their info under data protection? Can I correct errors? Can I sue the monitors for breech of privacy? Doesn’t all this sound slightly one sided? Once again big business rides over the rights of the little guy who can do nothing to stop them. Legal or not, the bottom line is monitoring and logging of people that torrent is going on. So keep that in mind the next time you go to download The Twilight Saga . How People Are Caught Illegally Downloading Music, Movie Torrents. Sites like the Pirate Bay and uTorrent haven't enticed hundreds of millions of people to download endless amounts of free media content without making a few enemies. Those BitTorrent giants -- and others like them -- have built their businesses by outwitting the seemingly hapless MPAA and RIAA. The increased acceptance of illegally downloading media has affected the bottom line of the movie and music industry over the past decade, and that isn't good news for torrent fans. Earlier this month, the BBC reported on a study by computer scientists at Birmingham University designed to find out how risky it is for file-sharers to upload and download files online. When someone downloads a torrent file from an open site like the Pirate Bay or uTorrent, their IP address is linked with other IP addresses around the world that are hosting that file. The risk is that an IP address is akin to a computer's online fingerprint, an often ignored fact that the MPAA and RIAA haven't hesitated to exploit. Now, those organizations are planting files online that they think people are the most likely to download. The Birmingham University researchers told the BBC they were "surprised" by the amount of monitoring agencies hired by the MPAA and RIAA do online. The study, which spanned three years, found that IP addresses and other data are being collected for future use. "You don't have to be a mass downloader. Someone who downloads a single movie will be logged as well," the lead researcher told the BBC. "If the content was in the top 100 [most popular downloads] it was monitored within hours. Someone will notice and it will be recorded." The copyright police are banking on the idea that there are more people illegally sharing major movies like "The Avengers" than stealing music from small, independent record labels.