Question: What Are the Good Bit Torrent Search Engines?
"What Are the Five Best Torrent Search Engines?"
Answer: As of November 4, 2009, the 5 most popular bittorrent search engines are listed below. This list is compiled from reader suggestions, and voted on each week by a small panel of P2P users. This list is updated every few days. You are welcome to submit your own torrent suggestions to be part of this list.
There are multiple criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: size of torrent database, currency of updates, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, price of membership, readers' comments, and readers' ability to provide feedback on each other.
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Warning: while P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Downloading, and specifically uploading, P2P files may put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, the MPAA and RIAA, along with the governments of England and Australia, took several thousand users to court, demanding that they pay thousands of dollars in copyright infringement penalties.
Also be warned: your ISP (Internet service provider) may, at their discretion, release their logs of your downloading/uploading activity to potential copyright plaintiffs. The more megabytes you download/upload, the more you risk being sued by the MPAA, RIAA, and other pro-artist groups. Please keep this risk in mind before you use any of the above torrent search engines.
There are multiple criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: size of torrent database, currency of updates, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, price of membership, readers' comments, and readers' ability to provide feedback on each other.
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- Isohunt.com
Isohunt is a Canadian site that has earned the respect of P2P users everywhere. In spite of being sued by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, the Isohunt team continues to provide solid service and good torrents to the international community. While there are fake files that have polluted the Isohunt database, if you are careful to read the user comments on each potential download, you should have no problem filtering out the good torrents for yourself.
- Entertane: another metasearch engine, Entertane will pore through other search engines on your behalf, and display the results in a framed interface for your easy browsing.
- Alive Torrents Alive Torrents is a relatively new site. It focuses on torrents that have distinguished themselves as having a solid swarm base and an active readership. The torrent files you see here will reflect the most popular current searches today.
- Torrentroot: as a metasearch engine, Torrent Root will pore through other search engines on your behalf, and display the results in a tabbed interface for easy browsing. WARNING: the Torrent Root web page has been attacked by scareware and phishing viruses. The webmasters at that site seem to have successfully purged that infection, but like with any P2P browsing: make sure you use a reliable antivirus like Avira to keep yourself safe.
- Demonoid.com have reestablished themselves outside of the USA as of spring 2008, and have resumed torrent operations. Demonoid is still a private community, and members are held liable for any leeching that their invited friends do in this community. If you are lucky enough to get a Demonoid membership, invite your friends carefully, lest you lose your own membership.
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Back to Home Page
Warning: while P2P file sharing technology is completely legal, many of the files traded through P2P are copyrighted. Downloading, and specifically uploading, P2P files may put you at risk for a civil lawsuit in any country. These lawsuits usually take the form of class-action suits, filed against groups of users who are logged as blatantly copying and distributing copyrighted materials. Recently, the MPAA and RIAA, along with the governments of England and Australia, took several thousand users to court, demanding that they pay thousands of dollars in copyright infringement penalties.
Also be warned: your ISP (Internet service provider) may, at their discretion, release their logs of your downloading/uploading activity to potential copyright plaintiffs. The more megabytes you download/upload, the more you risk being sued by the MPAA, RIAA, and other pro-artist groups. Please keep this risk in mind before you use any of the above torrent search engines.
