For all your downloading needs, be it Torrents, Limewire or newsgroups, this site has all the information you could want together with the latest news from the programmers and those who would have them shut down.
There is a menu on the left of the page where you will be taken to detailed online instructions for whatever takes your fancy.
No spyware, no secret downloaders, just a mine of information.
http://www.slyck.com/