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2009: The Top 35 Torrent Sites
The Next 15

By Paul Gil, About.com



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  1. Torrentz.com (special thanks to reader, Jonathan R., for this link)

  2. Mininova.org Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.

  3. Meganova.org which has been rebranded as "Seed Peer"

  4. BTbot.com (this site has been intimidated into listing fewer and fewer current torrents. The administrator was likely spooked by the recent wave of lawsuits against Isohunt and Pirate Bay)

  5. FullDLS.com

  6. Plentyoftorrents: this is a kind of launchpad search engine that offers choices where you want to search.

  7. Scrapetorrent.com is another torrent meta-search engine that is gaining popularity.

  8. Bitsoup Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders.

  9. Torrentmatrix.com

  10. bittorrent.com (the official Torrent website by Bram Cohen, the designer of the Python BitTorrent format.)

  11. Fenopy (formerly Bitoogle.com) (the 'original' bittorrent search engine, which has now morphed into a metasearch engine. The results from your Bitoogle searches will point to various other torrent search sites. This site has been redirected recently.)

  12. Torrents.to

  13. Special mention: Gpirate.com (A newer torrent search engine that several readers are very fond of.)

  14. Special mention: TuxDistro.com (For legal linux torrents and virtual machines.)

  15. Special mention: Commonbits.com (This new beta search site is dedicated to media on progressive political content: audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files. This is a place for activists to share their message, and for people to learn about other political choices. Unfortunately, the owners have had to move the site because of legal/financial pressures. We hope to see it back soon.)


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