I will be writing about every kind of media that uses different distribution models than the one that is forced upon us by the media industry. If you are as fed up with copy protection, drm and regional encoding you have come to the right place. Movies enter the realm of public domain after a set number of years or if the copyright holder decides that he does not want to renew the copyright. Every country has its own laws concerning public domain making it quite a task to find out if a movie or music is public domain.

Public Domain Torrents is a website that offers torrents of many movies that are considered public domain. Categories like horror, drama and war contain many movies that can be downloaded in various formats using bittorrent. Most movies can be downloaded in divx format but also in iPod, Zune and PSP formats. Every movie has a page with details about the movie summarizing the plot and showing off some screenshots to give you a first impression.

Most movies are black and white movies but colored movies are available as well (like house of the dead). The site currently hosts 848 public domain movies some of them starring well known artists like Charlie Chaplin or characters like Sherlock Holmes and Dick Tracy.