And the winner is: Torrentspy

Written by Ernesto on January 02, 2006 

Based on Alexa’s traffic ratings torrentspy.com is the most popular torrent site of 2005. Torrentspy caught up with isohunt.com and torrentreactor.net around April. They kept their first place during the rest of 2005. The Piratebay’s traffic equalled torrentspy’s after their great redesign at the end of May. The Piratebay finished second this year.
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Based on Alexa’s traffic ratings torrentspy.com is the most popular torrent site of 2005. Torrentspy caught up with isohunt.com and torrentreactor.net around April. They kept their first place during the rest of 2005. The Piratebay’s traffic equalled torrentspy’s after their great redesign at the end of May. The Piratebay finished second this year.

These 5 sites all grew in popularity over the past year. However, torrentreactor seems to be the loser and dropped from the 1st to the 5th place.

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BitTorrent sites graph

note: Alexa’s data gathering is quite dubious

If you don't like torrents try MP3 Fiesta. They hold nearly 67,000 albums from nearly 17,000 artists. Prices are around the $0.10 mark for single tracks with full albums coming in at roughly $1.00. Tracks are available from 192kbps and they take major credit cards and PayPal

Previously: BitTorrent 2005 part 6, Torrent Clients

Next: BitTorrent 2005 part 7, Advancing

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