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Uploading your First Torrent

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After reading about the basics of torrents in the previous post, you might be eager to know about creating a torrent.

Basic requirements for uploading a torrent :

  • a torrent client like μtorrent or vuze or tixati.
  • a reliable internet connection
  • worthy and meaningful content to be uploaded
  • trackers
  • a torrent meta website like 1337x.to or extratorrent.cc or piratebay or kickasstorrents etc

This tutorial will be based on Kickass Torrents using Î¼torrent and publicly available torrent trackers.

So, lets start :

1 Make sure you have the full copyrights of the content you are about to upload and you are solely responsible for all the issues related with the content of your torrent shared by you.

2 Open Î¼torrent, and press CTRL + N or click create a new torrent from the file tab.

Creating your first torrent

Creating your first torrent

3 Choose whether you want to upload a file or a whole directory (yes, torrents support uploading of whole directory without zipping them, that is a basic advantage, because the files in that stored can be listed and viewed easily, while the contents of a compressed ZIP or RAR files are unknown)

adding files to new torrent

adding files to new torrent

4 After choosing your files, (I selected a folder to upload) it is time to choose trackers for your torrent.

What is a Torrent Tracker

What is a Torrent Tracker

Tracker is a web server that keeps track of the peers and seeds in a swarm. A tracker does not have a copy of the file itself, but it helps manage the file transfer process.

Most popular torrent trackers are :
udp://open.demonii.com:1337/announce
udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80/announce
udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce

But you can also use these :

udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce
udp://tracker.ccc.de:80/announce

Make sure that you leave a blank line after every tracker url, it is the syntax of accepting trackers.

5 After the files are added in Î¼torrent, it will start seeding them and ask you to save a torrent file ( a file with extension .torrent )

saving .torrent file

saving .torrent file

6  We are done now, by preparing the torrent. Its time to upload it. Choose any torrent website to upload your torrent.

I am using kickass.to in this tutorial (you must be logged in to upload a torrent)

7  Click on the upload button in top bar, and choose most appropriate category for your torrent.

Upload Torrent - KickassTorrents

Upload Torrent – KickassTorrents

8  Upload your “something something .torrent” file and add description, title and other credits if you want to. You are advised to write a detailed description of the content you are uploading mentioning brief but clear summary in the title. Also provide screenshots and technical information if you are uploading a video.

Select a Category

Select a Category

adding description to torrent

adding description to torrent

 

9  After you are done with writing those things, click save and it will redirect you to that torrent’s page.

downloading the torrent

downloading the torrent

 

Note that it is not compulsory but advised that you should click “Download Torrent” button and add that downloaded torrent again to Î¼torrent, and make sure that you are seeding it 24×7 until your torrent has significant number of seeders. If you stop seeding and your torrent has no other seed then your torrent would starve and you will receive Down Votes for sure. If you can not seed all the day, you can also buy subscriptions from Seedbox Providers.

So, that’s all folks, you have successfully uploaded a torrent. Hope your torrents are really helpful for the world.

You can also check this official article about uploading your first torrent by BitTorrent.com.

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