Question: What Are the Good Bit Torrent Search Engines?
"What Are the Five Best Torrent Search Engines?"
Answer: As of July 1, 2009, the 5 best bit torrent search engine sites are listed below. This list is compiled from reader votes, and voted on each week by a small panel of torrent download users.
NEW: submit your own favorite torrent site here
There is a breadth of criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: size of database, database currency, 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.
Related: How to speed up your Bit Torrent client download speed
Reader suggestion: torrentengine.co.cc (Recommended at user favorite torrent sites)
Reader suggestion: flixflux.co.uk (Recommended at user favorite torrent sites)
Continued: The Complete Top 35 Torrent Sites List.
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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.
NEW: submit your own favorite torrent site here
There is a breadth of criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: size of database, database currency, 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.
Related: How to speed up your Bit Torrent client download speed
Reader suggestion: torrentengine.co.cc (Recommended at user favorite torrent sites)
Reader suggestion: flixflux.co.uk (Recommended at user favorite torrent sites)
- Special mention: Torrents.to (An improved and relaunched torrent search engine worth visiting. Special thanks to Pok for this submission.)
- Special Mention: Gpirate.com (Gpirate is getting rave reviews from several About.com readers.)
- Special mention: Mininova.org has 280,000 torrents indexed as of June, 2008. Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.
- Special Mention: Torrent-finder.com (Several readers from the central USA submitted this site recently. This site is gaining a bigger readership every day.)
- Isohunt.com
(In a shocking turn of the tables this September, the Isohunt webmaster is counter-suing the Canadian music industry. He is claiming that previous copyright violation suits against him were unfounded, and that he is entitled to have his legal expenses recovered. Read the entire story at www.isohunt.com) - The Pirate Bay,
by readership size, is the most popular torrent search site today. Pirate Bay also has an immense database of 600,000+ torrents, the single largest database available on the web.
News Flash, April 18, 2009: the Stockholm district court has sentenced the four Pirate Bay founders to a year in prison, and over $USD 3.5 million in fines. This is as punishment for violating their country's copyright laws. More on this shocking court ruling here... - Bitsoup Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders. As the trend towards private torrent sharing continues, you will need to signup and join as a member to participate in the Bitsoup swarm.
- Demonoid.com is now back online! They have established themselves outside of the USA in spring of 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.
- Torrentscan.com (a meta-search engine: Torrenscan is a search engine that searches other torrent search engines)
Continued: The Complete Top 35 Torrent Sites List.
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- The Complete Top 35 Torrent Sites List.
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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.
