Upload a Torrent to Pirate Bay

When you have created a torrent you then need to upload this to a tracker. We will use The Pirate Bay tracker. To do this you will first have to be registered and logged in to The Pirate Bay. I will assume you have already created a torrent file and registered and logged in to The Pirate Bay.

If you visit The Pirate Bay homepage (http://thepiratebay.org/) you will see at the bottom a link to 'Upload torrent' :

Click on this and you will see the following:

The process is reasonably straight forward. Before you progress much further make sure that the torrent you have created has the correct tracker information in it. When creating the torrent you should have used the information listed at the top of the upload page as the URL for the tracker ie. 'http://tpb.tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce'.

Now click on the 'Browse...' button and browse to the torrent file on your computer.

Next you can enter a name for the Torrent if it is different from the name of the torrent file you already have. You may wish to do this to make the listing of your torrent in The Pirate Bay tracker a little more reader-friendly (give it a nicer name if it is called something like 'track3.mp3.torrent).

Next choose the category from the drop down box. Make sure it is an accurate categorisation of the genre of your file.

Lastly, you can enter more information about the file you are uploading so those searching for files can read what the content of your file actually is through The Pirate Bay search results.

Next enter the letters you see in the image in the box named 'Enter the code from image:', and make sure you use the right capitalisation.

Here is an example of a torrent I am about to upload:

 

Then press 'Upload'. You should see a page like this:

What you see on your page is exactly what people will see when they what to read about your torrent and download it.

You must now use a BitTorrent client to seed the file. This means that you make the file you wish to distribute available through your computer. When people download it they will download the file directly from your computer, then when others have downloaded the entire file then they may also become seeds.

Whatever you do...don't move the file you are sharing until other people have seeded the file. If you move it from the directory you entered in the 'upload' window (shown above) BitTorrent will no longer be able to find it.