How to download torrents Download torrent files Access The Pirate Bay. How to use a VPN to access blocked torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay. Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' title='Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' />How to access The Pirate Bay in the UK. How to use a torrent site. See also Why you need a VPN heres what a VPN can do for your online security. Well this is awkward. Here at PC Advisor we genuinely dont advocate the use of torrent sites to download and share copyright content. In fact, as the owner and producer of digital magazines  that are regularly ripped off and shared via such sites, we actively disagree with such activity. But we also believe in the freedom of the internet, were here to provide independent and objective information and, well, youre grown ups. You can make your own decisions as to the legality and morality of your actions, as well as the inherent security risks. Were far from alone in our belief that ripping off copyright material is wrong, and Kanye West hit headlines back in March after tweeting a photograph of him visiting The Pirate Bay to download music editing software. He claims it was a joke after The Pirate Bay enabled mass piracy of his new album, The Life of Pablo. Not a very funny one, admittedly, but were sort of inclined to believe him we very much doubt that he enjoys people downloading his music for free. Getting back to the case in point, we dont agree with illegally downloading content from torrent sites, and we dont think Kanye West does either. But there are some legitimate uses of torrent sites, and you are all adults who can make up your own minds as to what is right and wrong. If youre not an adult, then you should check with whomever pays your internet bill first. So heres how to access torrent sites in the UK, even now that your ISP has in all likelihood done its best to block you from doing so. See also How to use a VPN set up VPN for private browsing. What is torrentingIts the process of downloading a file but instead of getting it from one server, pieces of the file are sourced from peoples computers around the world. Its called peer to peer file sharing. Most commonly, a bittorrent program will be set up so that your computer is also sharing the file that youre downloading, but only while youre downloading it. Downloading this way avoids overloading a single server and is typically used to download video. How to use bittorrent, utorrent. Unlike downloading a normal file such as driver for your PCs graphics card you cant usually search for torrent files in Google. You can read our separate article on Is Bittorrent legal for details, but suffice to say that your ISP has probably blocked the most popular websites which list torrent files, such as the Pirate Bay. Google also excludes most search results which include illegal torrents such as Game of Thrones episodes. Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' title='Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' />How to download torrents, get onto torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay. Plus, what is torrenting, and is it legal. Thats why youll need not only an application which can download torrents utorrent is a common one but also probably a VPN. Well explain why below. Go To My Pc For Microsoft Surface. See also Best VPN services. How to access The Pirate Bay. Note that in the UK at least most ISPs wont let you simply enter the URL for The Pirate Bay. Instead you usually need to access it by clicking on a link to it, and then get around the ISP block. Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' title='Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' />Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a. One of the easiest ways to do so is to download the Hola browser extension for Chrome, then find and click on the link to The Pirate Bay in its list of popular sites. Alternatively you can change your routers DNS settings so that youre not using your ISPs servers to route you to websites and therefore not limited by the sites that it blocks. How to download torrents in the UK use a VPNThe principle is simple you need to create a virtual private network. A VPN enables a computer to send and receive data across shared or public networks like the internet as if it were directly connected to a private network. You get the functionality, security and management policies of a private network via a virtual point to point connection. Most importantly in this case, a VPN creates a virtual tunnel between you and the sites and services you need to access, which means the ISP doesnt know who or indeed where you are, so you wont be blocked off from sites you wish to access. We explain how to use a VPN service to surf the web anonymously. Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' title='Panda Antivirus For Windows 7 Torrent' />One way of doing this is to use Operas Turbo mode. This is intended to speed up your browsing, but it does so by re routing all your web pages through Operas own speedy servers. In effect this creates a VPN. Soon, an Opera update will bring a full, free VPN service within the browser, but right now this is only available if you install the developer beta version. Simply install the Opera web browser from PC Advisor. Find the Opera Turbo icon on the lower left of the screen, on the left side of the status bar. Hover this icon, and it says Opera Turbo Off. Click on it, and Opera Turbo is enabled. The icon turns blue, and each time a page is loaded, information is displayed about the network savings. How to download torrents from The Pirate Bay with Pirate. Browser. Another simple way of using a VPN is to install the Pirate. Slow Acid Calvin Harris here. Browser from The Pirate Bay. Its just a modified version of Firefox, and it works in a similar way to Opera Turbo. Just be careful from where you download Pirate. As a web browser, Mozilla Firefox will always have a place in history as one of the first products to seriously challenge the dominance of Microsofts Inte. Browser.  See all How to articles. Get free tech support in the Helproom Forum.