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When suprnova.org was taken offline 19 december 2004, there was a gap to fill. Initially lokitorrent took over. Lokitorrent’s traffic tripled within a week. But a month later lokitorrent died too.

BitTorrent’s founder Bram Cohen doesn’t like to be in the news a lot. But once you create the worlds most effective filesharing technology, you can’t escape. Here are some quotes from Bram in 2005

Even the US government is using BitTorrent these days. We all know bandwith is pretty expensive, so NASA decided to make their woldwind project available through BitTorrent.
Here’s a link

Torrent sites go down. That’s the way it always has been, and this is also true for 2005.

A lot of legal issues surrounded BitTorrent in 2005. MPAA’s “war on BitTorrent” led to the death of two major torrentsites (torrentstop and lokitorrent) and several smaller sites in the beginning of 2005. But.. this was only the beginning…

The year 2005 started without Suprnova.org. Suprnova was taken offline by it’s admin on 19 december 2004, which left a huge gap that was initially filled by Lokitorrent. It did’t take very long though. Nearly a month after Suprnova died, Lokitorrent was being sued by the MPAA.

AllPeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox.

Christmas… there is no way to escape from it. Even uTorrent hired their personal Santa, accompanied by some awfull music, to wish me a merry christmas.
Read further to see the pic.

Anyway, Merry Chrismas to you all.

Despite of all the lawsuits and several desperate attempts to shut down torrent sites, BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing. Based on Alexa rankings, the bigger torrent sites still seem to grow. And besides this, new sites a launched succesfully.

Torrentz.com updated their site design. A clean look, it’s good to see that they are still improving.

2005 is almost over. Time for a list of the best torrent sites out there. Five categories, fifteen sites.