At the moment there are several torrent sites that are leading in the way of popularity, but some are being taken down and having to delete illegal files. Here is Crenk’s list of the top torrent sites for 2009.
Mininova – Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.
Isohunt – Currently in a legal dispute with the Canadian Recording Industry Association, Isohunt is a longtime favorite of P2P users. The community at Isohunt also helps... Read Full Story
In June 2005 when the now-famous Grokster decision was handed down, initial reaction was almost unanimous. The Internet was alive with this historic defeat – Grokster had been savaged by the Supreme Court, lost their case in the biggest possible way and would have to shut down. No other outfit would dare get involved in file-sharing again, was the knee-jerk assumption, since this case proved it was illegal.
In reality, the truth proved somewhat different.
No one could argue Grokster... Read Full Story
Mininova, the other popular BitTorrent tracker, just went legal-only. No more downloading episodes of Dexter or Mad Men off of it, but there plenty of other trackers out there still. [ Mininova Blog ]
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The big news this morning is that the Pirate Bay is closing down their torrent tracker for good. After launching the torrent tracker back in 2003 it quickly became one of the worlds largest Bittorrent trackers on the Internet, with some 25 million peers using the service. The Pirate Bay was launched by a few friends in Sweden and was never supposed to turn into a business, and never really did (probably the ultimate open source project).
Despite this success, The Pirate Bay operators... Read Full Story
The power of torrents is amazing. It allows for large files to be distributed while sharing the bandwidth cost between many people. While there are plenty of legit ways to use this technology, the most popular use is file-sharing. Following are sites for this.
The One Thing You Need To Know
www.portforward.com
In order to get good download speeds, you need to be sure that you are connectable. You do this by forwarding ports in your router. Visit this site to find your router... Read Full Story
BitTorent clients are computer programs that work on BitTorrent protocol and help you to download and upload files via peer-to-peer networks.
Every BitTorrent client has some unique features and appearance.
So I created a list of 15 fantastic BitTorrent clients.
(1) Bittorrent
BitTorrent is world’s first torrent client.
(2) Vuze
Vuze is formerly Azureus, full screen HD player is also with this client.
(3) uTorrent
uTorrent is a tiny torrent client with so many features... Read Full Story
Written by Ernesto The end of the Pirate Bay is nearing. Even if the deal with GGF doesn’t go through the current owners are likely to sell to one of the other interested parties. For many BitTorrent fans this means that they have to find an alternative. Luckily there are plenty of good ones out there. Replacing The Pirate Bay is easier said then done. The tracker is currently responsible for approximately half of all public torrent transfers, which represents a significant percentage of... Read Full Story
Our friends over at TorrentFreak have put together an amazing list of Pirate Bay alternatives in a variety of areas. Here is the basic list.
Full Pirate Bay Alternatives
The only full Pirate Bay alternatives are sites that index torrent files , are open to everyone and also have a working tracker. Unfortunately, there are only a few sites out there that offer this full package -there are four of them below. We decided to include Demonoid here because it tracks many public torrents.
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Written by Ernesto
The end of the Pirate Bay is nearing. Even if the deal with GGF doesn’t go through the current owners are likely to sell to one of the other interested parties. For many BitTorrent fans this means that they have to find an alternative. Luckily there are plenty of good ones out there.
Replacing The Pirate Bay is easier said then done. The tracker is currently responsible for approximately half of all public torrent transfers, which represents a significant percentage... Read Full Story
The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away . But that doesn't mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good. Demonoid Demonoid, besides having a solid community and good quality torrents—no porn, exceedingly few viruses—also operates the other major torrent tracker besides The Pirate Bay. (A tracker is what help makes the whole BitTorrent system work, since it makes sure every peer's... Read Full Story
