When downloading torrents, progress bar is stuck at 0%

[ThePowerPlayer]

Hello. I've recently tried downloading some torrents from this site, but when I tried to download the files inside the torrents via both µTorrent and BitLord, the progress bars were stuck at 0.00% - thus, they never downloaded at all. This problem occurs with all three of the torrents I attempted to finish downloading;

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6240801...sal_Keygen
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/1338010...0.2)_(GOG) 
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/1201933...t)___Crack

The first two were torrents I wanted to download to play some video games for free, but when those refused to download, I attempted the last torrent to prove that my problem had to do with the website itself, not with how old the previous torrents were. I have tried to download the torrents as .torrent files so I wouldn't have to download them online (downloading offline torrents has worked for me in the past), but there seems to be no method of doing so. I have also tried what other people have apparently done - editing the "magnet" property in Google Chrome's settings files from "true" to "false", but there is no such property in the settings, as far as I know. I have also attempted downloading the torrents with both µTorrent and BitLord, but neither have worked. I also used a VPN during my downloading. How can I fix this issue so I can download these torrents properly? Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give.

[dueda]

Torrents running - the second is small and downloaded here, other two report ok.
Adobe has a lot of seeds, will download fast. PopCap has only a few, but will do in a couple hours.

Magnets are associated with your torrent client when you install one, so Chrome should not be the issue unless you've got some script-/ad- block. Tried downloading other torrents beside those three? Have anything running? Firewall?

[Moe]

I attempted the last torrent to prove that my problem had to do with the website itself

The web site plays no part in downloading, so this is not a site issue. Downloading takes place entirely in your client, so the problem lies within your configuration.

Something to start your investigation: TPB magnet links use UDP trackers exclusively, and DHT also relies on UDP. Regardless of torrent client, if you can't start torrents from TPB, chances are your system is blocking the clients' ability to create outgoing UDP connections.

[ThePowerPlayer]

Thank you for the correction - my problem is indeed not a problem with Google Chrome or the Pirate Bay website. As far as I know, I have no firewall or adblocker running on my incognito Google Chrome window. I tried downloading the Adobe Photoshop torrent again using BitLord, and it has actually begun to download, though at a very slow pace. The progress bar is currently at 1.7% - better than 0%, but the down speed ranges from 14 to 80 KiB/s. I don't believe that's very fast, though I could be wrong. Either way, though, the ETA is fluctuating - from 1 to 2 days at first, then dropping to around 10 hours, with an arbitrary number of extra hours added or subtracted as well. Is this slow download speed because of my network connection, and is there any way I can speed these downloads up? Thank you for any further information.

[Moe]

You can only download as fast as your ISP has provisioned your connection for. After that, your download speeds are going to be determined by however fast the peers you are connected to can upload to you. It will fluctuate a lot as you connect and disconnect to different peers. A large swarm can come close to downloading as fast as your ISP allows, but will take a while to build to that speed.

[joew771]

Enable DHT if you haven't already. I would guess that that is your problem. But I guess wrong 99% of the time.