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1. Torrents.to
This site has a Tonga country domain name, but certainly offers plentiful metasearching of movies and music in English and Spanish. There are some popup advertisements that are annoying, but perhaps you might like the framed interface for searching other torrent sites.
http://torrents.to/
2. The Blues Brothers
Blues Brothers is a private site with a strong community and file-sharing ethic. As a private site, you can expect the leeching (selfish) users to be reduced. The BB community also strives to police itself by carefully watching each member's upload ratio... if you abuse your ratio, you are blocked from downloading until you donate. This policy may seem a bit harsh, but members seem to really appreciate it.
3. btscene.com
btscene is a longtime player in the file sharing game. This website does have annoying popups and adult advertising, but it does offer a solid library of torrents. It does a good job of featuring very recent torrents (good for people who follow television shows), and presenting many browsing choices at a glance.
4. Torrentscan.com
In addition to reliable meta-searching services, Torrentscan provides the very helpful feature of featuring "File Sharing News". This is ideal for serious downloaders who want to follow the legal landscape of P2P sharing. Try Torrentscan for yourself, and tell us how you like it.
5. ShareReactor
ShareReactor is a search engine for both bit torrents and eDonkey 2000 ("ed2k") file formats. While eDonkey is not nearly as popular today as it was in 2002, some people still use ed2k networking.
6. Flixflux
Flixflux is a United Kingdom torrent site that is very popular with European downloaders.
7. BTjunkie
BTjunkie is a solid torrent service for many reasons: it has a massive database, it offers torrent email updates of new additions, Twitter updates, and useful reporting and comment features.
8. Gpirate.com
GPirate claims to be the largest torrent search engine today. It does have an amateurish look and feel to its interface, but it does yield large result sets. Give GPirate a try, and let us know if you like the service.
9. LinuxTracker.org
Linux users: rejoice! Here is a niche site for your niche tastes in software! Get legal Linux/Unix files, applications, virtual machines, and more.
10. Torrentbit
Torrentbit.nl is the same as Torrentbit.net. This site is another plain-looking interface that delivers very good selections and surprisingly useful service. Serious P2P users will like that you can search for torrent hashes and torrent trackers here. There is even an RTS (real time status) feature that lets you check for current seed count with a single click. Definitely try Torrentbit and let us know how you like this site.
http://www.torrentbit.net/
11. BiteNova
Formerly known as “Bi-Torrents”, BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.
http://www.bitenova.org/
12. Nowtorrents.com
Now Torrents (allegedly) offers a special service: it filters out fake/dead torrents in real time. It also offers date-range searching, so you can search for specific years of content (e.g. Flight of the Conchords, 2008). This makes Nowtorrents very useful if you are seeking obscure older torrents, or if you are seeking very new torrents.
13. Bit Unity
This newer addition to our list is a private community that allegedly takes very attentive care of its users. If you have 20 minutes to sign up and try Bit Unity, please do, and confirm that this site is as good as some readers claim.
14. Demonoid
Demonoid is the benchmark private torrent site. All other private P2P communities compare themselves to Demonoid, and even with the massive competition, Demonoid still remains a top site in the eyes of downloaders everywhere. If you successfully get a registered membership at Demonoid, do not abuse it. Thousands of people are happy to take your spot if you do not share files and maintain your requisite ratio.
15. ExtraTorrent
ExtraTorrent is a crammed-looking site, and yes, it has popup advertising that can be annoying. BUT: this cluttered site also offers some really packed information that many users will appreciate: the torrents have movie plot summaries, photos of the actors, user comments on the stories, names of the users who verified the torrent, and visual crosslinks to similar movies. I personally like that ExtraTorrents features some really obscure gems in the left column... a very helpful feature for real movie and TV buffs looking to discover new shows.
16. Thunderbytes
Thunderbytes has gone to a membership-only private format. There are many pros and cons to private sites; oftentimes, they are the best way to get help and recommendations from others. You need an invitation to join TB, or you can become a sponsor with a small donation. Give these folks a try, as they come highly recommended as a P2P site.
17. BitToxic.com
While the name is awkward to type, these folks offer a solid semi-private search site. The memberships might be closed soon, so visit them right away!
18. Torrentz
Special thanks to reader, Jonathan R., for this recommendation. The "verified" filtering feature of this site makes it a good choice for downloaders.
19. Entertane
Entertane is a "metasearch" engine. This means: it searches other search engine results, but present the results in a single screen for easy browsing. And Entertane does a slick job of providing eight other result sets in a convenient tabbed browsing format.
20. Diamond Torrents
New: Diamond Torrents: this private torrent search service has been repeatedly recommended by About.com readers lately. The community and staff at Diamond seem to be very supportive of new members, and while the site itself is a bit counter-intuitive to search, it does offer a solid base of older and more-obscure movies. Try signing up for Diamond Torrents, and let us know what you think.
3 comments:
Thanks... good list of top torrent sites
www.torrentsniffer.com searches most of these sites with one search. alot easier
Actually in most all the lists of torrent sites I've recently seen, the same sites are mentioned. Though it is already 2010, but none of new sites is added. I know that Mininova and Pirate Bay are still leaders in this niche, but would like to add a new perspective - meta search engine on torrents . It has some new interesting features, simple design – everything for a convenient and effective search and download.
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