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Kid friendly Torrentsite
I'm trying to teach a 10yo girl and her mother safer downloading habits on their new PC and having a bit of trouble finding an easy to use site, that also has a non porn atmosphere (both torrents and forum). Are there any?
BTW I am looking for just one general site, not specialty sites, that still have quality in mind. This unfortunately excludes places like Demonoid.
Edit for future reference:
Family Friendly Scene site with over 7.000 active torrents: http://speed.cd/signup.php
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Great question, will have a dig around.
Ok the only site that I can see that fits the bill content-wise is ITS, because it's ratio & porn free, your going to have to find a friend in there to recommend you and apply on your behalf.
Filelist could be ok too as far as content goes but she'd need to keep ratio and I'm not sure how well a youngster would fit into the community there. The only other problem with this is one is there is no invites & no open registration so that could be tricky.
Blue_Skies if there was a dedicated site designed for kids with kids content it'd be a great tool for us users to introduce younger family members to filesharing. I'm thinking it would probably need to be ratio free or something cause kids are like "I see shiny things" "must have shiny things" ! :)
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Updated first post. General.. and preferable just one.
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I think there's a kiddie site....Childbytes or something like that. You should Google :)
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Yeah.. but trouble is that it has just kids stuff. Looking more for a general site that just has zero adult oriented themes.
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what about cartoonchaos, that's mainly all cartoons and Disney.
You could try there, hope this help's.
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Blue_Skies
Yeah.. but trouble is that it has just kids stuff. Looking more for a general site that just has zero adult oriented themes.
Well all sites have an 'Adult' section in the forums, so you can't get away from that.
What I would recommend though is GFT, it has an option where you can disable pron-related torrents, and it looks very clean and professional.
Just don't be surprised if the next day she's asking you what jailbait means :lol:
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You can always set in the settings not to see the XXX category.
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KushBlow
Just don't be surprised if the next day she's asking you what jailbait means :lol:
lol exactly what we don't need.
Looks like I just found a new idea for a site. PM me once someone set it up :P
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vic
You can always set in the settings not to see the XXX category.
Unfortunately not as easy as that. First of all These sites always have XXX sections in the forum, and second there is no way to completely turn of XXX. These settings are just to not have them visible as default. A curious 10yo can always check a box and all of a sudden it's Porn all around.
I have even tried using element hider on them. The whole browse section disappears when doing that.
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Blue_Skies
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KushBlow
Just don't be surprised if the next day she's asking you what jailbait means :lol:
lol exactly what we don't need.
Looks like I just found a new idea for a site. PM me once someone set it up :P
What about Funfile? Or TiP? No pron if my memory serves me right.
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quite frankly i wouldn't let a 10yo girl on any torrent site. i'd say teach the mother how to do it, give her a torrentleech invite and then let her do the downloading for the daughter.
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Polarbear
quite frankly i wouldn't let a 10yo girl on any torrent site. i'd say teach the mother how to do it, give her a torrentleech invite and then let her do the downloading for the daughter.
Don't let age fool you. My brother is barely 9 and he's practically an uploader for TTi :lol:
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http://torrentseed.org if you dont mind hiding the xxx torrents and forum has no xxx section ( I dont see the need for it :P ). Forum has radio and arcade also to pass the time.
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KushBlow
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Polarbear
quite frankly i wouldn't let a 10yo girl on any torrent site. i'd say teach the mother how to do it, give her a torrentleech invite and then let her do the downloading for the daughter.
Don't let age fool you. My brother is barely 9 and he's practically an uploader for TTi :lol:
The problem is that she wants to learn everything. Just teaching the mother would last like a day or something. Also TL isn't really what I would call an easy starter site because of the Wait times for new users.
And also try pressing the xxx by mistake and all of a sudden we have "Mom.. what does PussyTorrents mean?"
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Ev0
http://torrentseed.org if you dont mind hiding the xxx torrents and forum has no xxx section ( I dont see the need for it :P ). Forum has radio and arcade also to pass the time.
Will the XXX option completely disappear? That's what I'm looking for. No checkbox or anything.
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KushBlow
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Blue_Skies
lol exactly what we don't need.
Looks like I just found a new idea for a site. PM me once someone set it up :P
What about Funfile? Or TiP? No pron if my memory serves me right.
Can someone confirm? And also are they easy to use. Remember we are dealing with complete newbies here. BTW I don't know what TiP means... Apart from TiP Records :P
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Just checked what you said on TL.
first of all the forums there are kinda dead
secondly i marked everything but the XXX, and searched for the word XXX, found nothing adult. :whistling
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[QUOTE=Blue_Skies;3098865]
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KushBlow
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Ev0
http://torrentseed.org if you dont mind hiding the xxx torrents and forum has no xxx section ( I dont see the need for it :P ). Forum has radio and arcade also to pass the time.
Will the XXX option completely disappear? That's what I'm looking for. No checkbox or anything.
This is something that has puzzled me a lot of sites require you to be 13 or over to sign up but then still have a lot of content not suitable for youngsters under 18. You would think they could write something that would effectively filter the torrents and forums for unsuitable files, & posts. As some one said chaecking or unchecking a tickbox isn't a good solution unless once unchecked there was password protection to make the box visible & tickable again
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no matter where, no matter how. kids aren't stupid. she'll find out and end up seeing content, that's not appropiate for her age. may it be some horror movie or xxx. it's the forbidden fruit that attracts curiosity.
don't understimate the psychological side effects that come with being opposed to such content or even plain text at a young age.
10 is simply too young to navigate through the internet or even private trackers without parental guidance in my opinion.
if she's curious about technology, software and computers, there are a million other things that can be taught.
but hey, your decision. invite the girl to sct. :P
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The problem is that some asshole told her about Limewire. So reassess the situation.
If I can't give her other options, then she will completely fuck up the PC. And I would really prefer it not be Demonoid as she would be constantly downloading unusable games.... and wanting me to fix them :(
And no ScT is probably not a good bet.
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Blue_Skies
And no ScT is probably not a good bet.
i wasn't serious :pinch:
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hey m8:)....i do have an idea of a site named speed.cd...on the front page itself its says "its a family-safe torrent site"....as far as i know i guess i have seen somebody post that its has about 5k torrents(cant be sure though)....so u might try that site....gud thing is its open to sign up..often
and now too http://speed.cd/signup.php
hope this helps you to some extent :happy:
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mobile
hey m8:)....i do have an idea of a site named speed.cd...on the front page itself its says "its a family-safe torrent site"....as far as i know i guess i have seen somebody post that its has about 5k torrents(cant be sure though)....so u might try that site....gud thing is its open to sign up..often
and now too
http://speed.cd/signup.php
hope this helps you to some extent :happy:
On the face of it this looks pretty much ideal for the OP needs.
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I totally agree with polarbear children of that age shouldn't even browse without some form of supervision. Just set the mother up on a good site lock out the XXX and add a parental lock program to the whole computer while you are at it.
Sure kids are curious and she will sooner or later run into some bad stuff but no need to facilitate the process.
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KushBlow
Don't let age fool you. My brother is barely 9 and he's practically an uploader for TTi :lol:
Yes and look how you turned out.
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Since when have 10 year olds downloaded??? How can u trust soemone so young they will end up downloading a 1000 files in the first week.
Why dont u just get them to use demonoid, download what u want with no ratio requirment, and no xxx. But then again not the easiest place for a 10 year to use type one thing in and u get a 1000 results.
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IdolEyes787
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KushBlow
Don't let age fool you. My brother is barely 9 and he's practically an uploader for TTi :lol:
Yes and look how you turned out.
:w00t:
that just made my day
:glag:
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Yep there is actually no pron torrents on TL but there are some adult looking images in users profile pictures. Not to mention the comments on some torrents contain offensive language. This is a common problem on all sites though.
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mobile
hey m8:)....i do have an idea of a site named speed.cd...on the front page itself its says "its a family-safe torrent site"....as far as i know i guess i have seen somebody post that its has about 5k torrents(cant be sure though)....so u might try that site....gud thing is its open to sign up..often
and now too
http://speed.cd/signup.php
hope this helps you to some extent :happy:
Yup this was it :) 7,700+ torrents even :D
How come not more people know about this one.
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IdolEyes787
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KushBlow
Don't let age fool you. My brother is barely 9 and he's practically an uploader for TTi :lol:
Yes and look how you turned out.
Smart, Canadian, and torrent-savvy. Right? :w00t:
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Polarbear
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IdolEyes787
Yes and look how you turned out.
:w00t:
that just made my day
:glag:
that's me after reading this post -> :glag:
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Polarbear
quite frankly i wouldn't let a 10yo girl on any torrent site. i'd say teach the mother how to do it, give her a torrentleech invite and then let her do the downloading for the daughter.
Exactly my thought. Why would you encourage a 10yo to commit copyright infringement? Let her find out about p2p for herself when she's older and let the mother do the leeching in the meantime :P
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danio
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Polarbear
quite frankly i wouldn't let a 10yo girl on any torrent site. i'd say teach the mother how to do it, give her a torrentleech invite and then let her do the downloading for the daughter.
Exactly my thought. Why would you encourage a 10yo to commit copyright infringement? Let her find out about p2p for herself when she's older and let the mother do the leeching in the meantime :P
Maybe read the posts in this thread. She already found out about "Copyright infringement" as you so elegantly put it. I don't want her to get her computer infected.. and staying clear of nasties on Gnutella is something that takes a bit more effort than a 10yo can handle.
At least Torrent sites encourage sharing, which is something a 10yo should learn.
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I heard axxo is admin on speed.cd? Is he?
(This is a totally useless and offtopic post)
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Bitsoup..... default settings in profile don't have pron selected... So you can surf the site w/o seeing porn... You have to make an effort to see it....
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My advice would be to keep the 10 year old girl focused in doing homework and playing with dolls. I don't think learning how to steal data, is appropriate for her at this age.
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Albo Da Kid
My advice would be to keep the 10 year old girl focused in homework and dolls. I don't think learning how to steal data, is appropriate for her at this age.
as long as she isn't planning a career in 'stealing a greater variety of data faster' :P
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It's not stealing it's sharing :P Haven't you learned anything yet?
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I didn't realise until I just checked but SuperTorrents does not allow any porn to be uploaded and there are no porn threads (that I can see) in their forums.
Blue_Skies - let me know if you want to take this further ;)
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Funny thread.
I'm sure if a 10yo is allowed to freely download scene material without parental supervision, then what does porn even matter?
Just bookmark a filter on RevTT/TL/IPT/Demonoid with everything included except XXX, voila. Good to see the pirates are starting younger these days, though.
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integral
Good to see the pirates are starting younger these days, though.
Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of non-alcoholic rum flavoured substitute :)
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Albo Da Kid
My advice would be to keep the 10 year old girl focused in doing homework and playing with dolls. I don't think learning how to steal data, is appropriate for her at this age.
i would have to kind of agree with this she should be concentrating on other things then being on bittorrent trackers. May be wait a few more years. I find it hard to believe that there are many 10 year olds downloading, meaning there is no real need for any trackers that are friendly towards kids at that age. Really think its the parents responibility to sort things at for kids when so young.