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2009: The Top 35 Torrent Sites

The Next 15

By Paul Gil, About.com



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


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


  3. Torrentengine.co.cc: a very spartan-looking torrent engine, with very fast results and and icons that denote verified sources.


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


  5. FullDLS.com


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


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


  8. BiteNova (formerly known as “Bi-Torrents”, BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.)


  9. 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.)


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


  11. 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)


  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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