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1 Mar 22, 2008 at 14:20 by Roflcer of the Lawl

Sooner or later they are just going to have to accept it or face dire consequences. Including but not limited too what happened to media defender.

2 Mar 22, 2008 at 14:22 by Vince

ha.. yes.. just imagine what those big companies could’ve done with all that money if they weren’t on their witchhunt for downloaders..

3 Mar 22, 2008 at 14:40 by andyness

ThePirateBay is going to pass Mininova because of their media attention.

4 Mar 22, 2008 at 14:41 by Fragy

Pretty good stuff.

@2
True, they could have used that money for something better than chasing IP addresses.

5 Mar 22, 2008 at 14:55 by Hmm

A few posts back, Isohunt went past TPB, and now TPB is on top. This is almost like the music charts. And, yeah, that money could have gone to other sources, but its not like there are people homeless, starving and dying, eh? I mean those celebrities are losing money! How saddening is that? Doesn’t it drive you to tears to see them have to take money out of their wallets instead of credit cards?

6 Mar 22, 2008 at 15:00 by meti

I see torrentspy is down a lot… good, since they took the great news feed of the frontpage, and replaced it with a giant ad block, and they removed all the torrents from their cache.

7 Mar 22, 2008 at 15:06 by Ravenholm

I attribute the rise of certain torrent sites to the demise of Demonoid

8 Mar 22, 2008 at 15:20 by Crandom

I think we are winning!

9 Mar 22, 2008 at 15:44 by IgnisUmbrae

Torrent sites are growing? Seriously!?

Slow news day?

10 Mar 22, 2008 at 15:55 by Anonymous

[quote comment="316318"]Torrent sites are growing? Seriously!?

Slow news day?[/quote]

It’s still nice to read, despite the fact there is in fact, nothing there to read.

Unless you’re starting out with using bit torrent.

Whatever.

11 Mar 22, 2008 at 16:28 by serrebi

I found it interesting. It’s fine! lol. At anyrate, nice to see all these sites growing and stuff.

12 Mar 22, 2008 at 16:34 by YO

I like looktorrent.com

13 Mar 22, 2008 at 16:53 by oldie

This isn’t really a torrent issue per se, but may effect things in the long run, I just discovered that I can source 100’s of sources in ed2k for certain mp3 files, yet when I attempt to download the files it shows zero sources for the transfer. This may be something Comcast has figured out how to interfere with. It would appear that certain key words in the title of the mp3 file, prevents the emule from finding sources when it tries to download, even if it finds hundreds in a search.

My concern is when will torrents start finding the same problem? For all I know it may already have. I hardly ever download music, so I just discovered this unique effect.

14 Mar 22, 2008 at 17:44 by Ram

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15 Mar 22, 2008 at 17:48 by slim

the youtorrent alexa rank doesnt go to youtorrent.com alexa search it goes to torrentvalley, you can fix link in the post

16 Mar 22, 2008 at 18:11 by Norway FTW!

[quote comment="316291"]I attribute the rise of certain torrent sites to the demise of Demonoid[/quote]
True! I check Demonoid every day with a little hope that it will re-appear.

17 Mar 22, 2008 at 18:13 by Anonymous

It should look like this:

4. Torrentz.com 231 192 +20%
5._torrents.ru__?___448_+16%
6. BtJunkie.org 689 469 +47%

18 Mar 22, 2008 at 19:20 by Anonymous

doesn’t alexa only rank the people that use IE?

19 Mar 22, 2008 at 19:33 by brodo

“Alexa’s data gathering is not perfect.”

That’s a nice circumlocution for: “They only count the visits of people who use IE and have downloaded the Alexa toolbar”. I’m not sure if i wanted those people visiting my Bittorrent site, if i had one.

20 Mar 22, 2008 at 19:44 by Jay

Honestly this scares me :( but it might actually help us when we’re attacked by corporate goons and crook politicians.

21 Mar 22, 2008 at 19:46 by Jay

Also, I am sure most of the people who use Public trackers could careless about p2p and are just a bunch of leeching pigs so I don’t know :/

22 Mar 22, 2008 at 20:42 by Anonymous

bleh they aren’t even top 50 yet… hopefully that’ll change soon

23 Mar 22, 2008 at 21:57 by very

[quote comment="316274"]ThePirateBay is going to pass Mininova because of their media attention.[/quote]
andyness, i don’t think so. though it is the fastest loading torrent site, the problem with bay are two: looks and tracker.

1. It looks pre-historic.

2. It doesn’t allow a non-bay tracker( like private tracker torrents) to be uploaded.

That’s why mininova is far far ahead:)

24 Mar 22, 2008 at 21:58 by very

[quote comment="316493"]“Alexa’s data gathering is not perfect.”

That’s a nice circumlocution for: “They only count the visits of people who use IE and have downloaded the Alexa toolbar”. I’m not sure if i wanted those people visiting my Bittorrent site, if i had one.[/quote]
+10

25 Mar 22, 2008 at 22:00 by Dan

“but that’s not what they would have you believe”-Seinfeld

http://musicforhumans1.blogspot.com/

26 Mar 22, 2008 at 22:06 by very

This article states: “BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Despite efforts from anti-piracy outfits…”

I refuse to agree with the word despite. i would prefer the word because, so that the statement should read as “BitTorrent’s popularity is growing every day. Beacuse of efforts from anti-piracy outfits..” Today, I’m passionate about torrents mainly because of this victimisation and copyright blah-blah and lawsuits. I actually have taught to my friends just because of this passion.

27 Mar 22, 2008 at 22:37 by ADz

Whats this the top 25 torrent sites for n00bs, LAMO.

Who in the right mind uses these sites for new releases, are you all crazy?

You cant beat private sites if BT is your thing, The pre-times are seconds and minutes and the speeds are allot better, but this soley depends on the private tracker you are a member of ofcourse.

torrentleech.org is one of the best private trackers available as it excells in all fields and has a amazing ammount of seeders.

Public trackers are good for rare xvids and tv series etc but are just not safe for new releases and are not regulated like private sites.

Dont get me wrong when i started on BT public was my first place but then soon stumbled upon private trackers about 4 years ago and havnt looked back :D

28 Mar 22, 2008 at 23:29 by Morghus

I suspect that ThePirateBay’s going up not just because of the media attention, but their new improvement to their search. It used to be worthless, now it’s actually pretty good. If only they’d support categorized viewing of torrents AFTER you’ve hit search as well, and they’d move higher
Fast.

29 Mar 22, 2008 at 23:52 by Anon

Media defender was bad. Long live Torrents.

30 Mar 23, 2008 at 00:05 by Desplow

#18 - Second that. IE And Toolbars.. blää.. aka. eww

31 Mar 23, 2008 at 00:17 by Strikerzex911

This makes me question whether companies will still be making software in the future….

32 Mar 23, 2008 at 00:21 by macd

[quote comment="316603"]Whats this the top 25 torrent sites for n00bs, LAMO.

Who in the right mind uses these sites for new releases, are you all crazy?

You cant beat private sites if BT is your thing, The pre-times are seconds and minutes and the speeds are allot better, but this soley depends on the private tracker you are a member of ofcourse.

torrentleech.org is one of the best private trackers available as it excells in all fields and has a amazing ammount of seeders.

Public trackers are good for rare xvids and tv series etc but are just not safe for new releases and are not regulated like private sites.

Dont get me wrong when i started on BT public was my first place but then soon stumbled upon private trackers about 4 years ago and havnt looked back :D[/quote]

Aren’t you special, you can use a private tracker! Hooray for you! I hope that post raised your ego as much as you hoped it would. Coz I really now think a lot more of you. Can I get your phone number? I want to meet you so i can kiss your elite arse and buy you shit. Seriously, next time your in Adelaide, send me an email at iwantADzskids@hotmail.com. I’ll show you how much i love you…

Personally, I dont need the newest thing as soon as it comes out, or even before in some cases, I’m quite happy to wait a week or two.

33 Mar 23, 2008 at 01:56 by Kevin

Private trackers ftw.

34 Mar 23, 2008 at 02:02 by Name

[quote comment="316274"]ThePirateBay is going to pass Mininova because of their media attention.[/quote]
Disagreed; Mininova has way better site layout. However, the pirate bay, while not the best torrent site, is the best leader on the planet in torrent legalization, recognition, and arguably technology. PBFTW!

35 Mar 23, 2008 at 02:09 by Name

[quote comment="316493"]“Alexa’s data gathering is not perfect.”

That’s a nice circumlocution for: “They only count the visits of people who use IE and have downloaded the Alexa toolbar”. I’m not sure if i wanted those people visiting my Bittorrent site, if i had one.[/quote]

True; IE users form the conformists, technologically ignorant, and corporate goons of the browser market; However!

They do contain some trace of the rest of us; I mean, they are not TOTALLY separate, to some extent we have similar interests;
so if the number of IE users goes from 1/20 to 1/15 using Torrents, that probably means a much bigger jump in the much bigger non-IE crowd. They aren’t equal-proportional, but they may well be directly proportional (at least in this regard).

36 Mar 23, 2008 at 02:23 by Name

BitTorrent sites are getting more and more popular, and there are a lot of good developers all over the world (thanks esp. to Germany + America), there will always be casualties in an ideological conflict like this, but P2P is actually doing really really well.

For you Americans though, you are running into serious trouble politically; your three candidates (Obama, McCain, Clinton) all hold platforms too-close-for-comfort, and that includes on violating net neutrality.

If I were you, I’d play on the safe side; go with Ron Paul; he is still in the presidential race and will not drop out until either the people have made the decision THEMSELVES on voting day, or he gets assassinated. He’s the only one I’d trust for torrents, p2p, and internet issues in general.

[FYI - If you haven't heard about him, check him out; his talk at Google headquarters is on YouTube and well worth the watch!]

37 Mar 23, 2008 at 04:34 by Anonymous

[quote comment="316603"]Whats this the top 25 torrent sites for n00bs, LAMO.

Who in the right mind uses these sites for new releases, are you all crazy?

You cant beat private sites if BT is your thing, The pre-times are seconds and minutes and the speeds are allot better, but this soley depends on the private tracker you are a member of ofcourse.

torrentleech.org is one of the best private trackers available as it excells in all fields and has a amazing ammount of seeders.

Public trackers are good for rare xvids and tv series etc but are just not safe for new releases and are not regulated like private sites.

Dont get me wrong when i started on BT public was my first place but then soon stumbled upon private trackers about 4 years ago and havnt looked back :D[/quote]

hey now, if you think private trackers are the way to go… GET US ALL INVITES KTHXBAI

38 Mar 23, 2008 at 05:17 by gss

I personally like the simplicity of thepiratebay over the cluttered bullshit of some other torrent sites. I’m just saying that when I load thepiratebay, I know what to expect but some of these other torrent sites have ads all over the place and it’s hard to navigate. That’s why I go to piratebay nearly everyday.

39 Mar 23, 2008 at 05:23 by Barney

Wow, just think how well Demonoid.com would be doing if Deimos hadn’t packed it in.

Pirating? No. It’s “sharing”, like my mother always told me to do. Sharing has been going on since the days of LPs, yet the Beatles somehow managed to scrape together a living. Despite their crying poor U2 are the world’s biggest earning pop band last year.

40 Mar 23, 2008 at 05:30 by ADz

[quote=macd] Blah Blah Blah ..some bollocks Blah Blach![/quote]

My my arnt you the sarcastic one.

I wasnt trying to be egotistical, I was just stating FACTS! and stand by everything i said!

Basically..
New releases = FTP,NG,Private BT
Old releases or rare stuff = Public BT

Most public sites are where newbies start off, and file sharers like limewire etc are where complete newbies start off.

Not been offensive or anything JUST STATING FACTS!

A top 25 Private sites would be allot more useful then this top 25 public.

41 Mar 23, 2008 at 05:36 by Cain

And where does legaltorrents rank on that list ?
I just had a look at their front page and these are the seed/peer stats for their “top torrents”:
5 / 0
4 / 0
3 / 0
121 / 9
205 / 52

Not very high methinks.
Kind of a disconnect going on here for someone who spends so much time attributing the popularity of BT to anything and everything but its use for obtaining commercial products for free.

42 Mar 23, 2008 at 06:23 by Anonymous

what.cd staff

use user donations

to buy

seedboxes

lol

43 Mar 23, 2008 at 06:48 by Opera User

Ah, Firefox fanboys. Complaining becuase some website only tallies the most widely used web browser in their statistics, which are gleaned from some crappy toolbar that most of them are so fucking paranoid, would use anyway. And a good proportion of which wouldnt know a security vunerability of it kicked them in the back of the head repeatedly. Most of which are such fanboys, they refuse to accept the plain and simple fact that THEIR browser is just as fucked up as they one they all love to hate, That THEIR browser has holes that have not been fixed for over 4 years. That the only reason THEIR browser is so great is because THEY are too fucking stupid to figure out how the otherone works, so as is the way with such small minded individuals, all jump on the FUD bandwagon. Sad sad losers.

44 Mar 23, 2008 at 06:58 by en3r0

Legit Torrents has also show massive growth!

45 Mar 23, 2008 at 07:37 by adithya

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47 Mar 23, 2008 at 07:48 by Anonymous

[quote comment="316745"]
My my arnt you the sarcastic one.

I wasnt trying to be egotistical, I was just stating FACTS! and stand by everything i said!

Basically..
New releases = FTP,NG,Private BT
Old releases or rare stuff = Public BT

Most public sites are where newbies start off, and file sharers like limewire etc are where complete newbies start off.

Not been offensive or anything JUST STATING FACTS!

A top 25 Private sites would be allot more useful then this top 25 public.[/quote]

Lol I do try. I just couldn’t care less what you say. Whats it matter wether I get it today or tomorrow? I’m still getting it free.

Tell me, when you start downloading your movie the second it comes out, do you watch it the second it finishes downloading?

48 Mar 23, 2008 at 08:06 by poop

fuck meta search engines. any websites that don’t actually host .torrent files should not be considered torrent websites. it just makes a joke out of whatever legitimacy the torrent community might have…

seriously who fucking needs torrentz.com or youtorrent.com? just find a reliable torrent site…

49 Mar 23, 2008 at 09:34 by Cain

[quote comment="316767"]Legit Torrents has also show massive growth![/quote]

Growth in what ? Font ?
I didn’t make up the torrent stats I posted.

50 Mar 23, 2008 at 09:42 by most_uniQue

Thanks to MPAA/RIAA/IFPI for keeping torrent sites in headlines so they could get much free advertising as possible!!! Love you guys<3

51 Mar 23, 2008 at 10:00 by Anonymous

[quote comment="316757"]what.cd staff

use user donations

to buy

seedboxes

lol[/quote]

Oh My God!!!

52 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:23 by Amateur Gam3r

Wow, I just tried out YouTorrent and it is really good. I’m impressed by the interface. :D

53 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:33 by Sylar

[quote comment="316745"][quote=macd] Blah Blah Blah ..some bollocks Blah Blach![/quote]

My my arnt you the sarcastic one.

I wasnt trying to be egotistical, I was just stating FACTS! and stand by everything i said!

Basically..
New releases = FTP,NG,Private BT
Old releases or rare stuff = Public BT

Most public sites are where newbies start off, and file sharers like limewire etc are where complete newbies start off.

Not been offensive or anything JUST STATING FACTS!

A top 25 Private sites would be allot more useful then this top 25 public.[/quote]

I don’t know what a private tracker is and don’t care. Public ones are good enough for me, and the majority I suspect. Who needs 1-1 share crap of latest releases? And who wants to join up with something anyway even if it were free, but especially for a fee. I rarely want new releases, and NEVER want overbloated gigantic sized movies. If I want that I’ll copy a DVD. Much simpler, quicker, and cheaper.

54 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:39 by Mitch Bainwol

[quote comment="316827"]Thanks to MPAA/RIAA/IFPI for keeping torrent sites in headlines so they could get much free advertising as possible!!! Love you guys<3[/quote]

We do what we can ;)

55 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:46 by Mitch Bainwol

My current project is a much needed new million dollar security system update for my home residence, heheh

56 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:48 by Mitch

Thanks guys for all your support with your out-of-court settlements btw. Every bit helps a starving pauper ;)

57 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:55 by RI

Mitch you bitch. Get outa here pronto! Didn’t we warn you about inhaling too many office glue fumes!?

58 Mar 23, 2008 at 13:59 by Mitch the bitch

Luv ya guys, come have a drink wiv me!

59 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:05 by Bert Newton

Wow great! I had no idea that all these existed. Thanks so much, and now maybe I’ll have a much better chance of getting stuff I’m looking for.

60 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:09 by Anonymous

i don’t know why people like so much youtorrent. security seem to be not there priority because we can inject html code and execute javacript files/functions via the search bar!!!

here an example -> http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/64/youtorrentjt5.jpg

61 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:39 by Anonymous

Private Trackers = [TRAP | elitist crap]

The public trackers don’t give you a false sense of security and they show to the world that we’re all “pirates”. If it wasn’t for corrupted governments, police, lawyers and judges non-commercial file-sharing (which isn’t piracy in the least after all) would have been declared as absolutely clean and legal back in the days of FTP file-sharing.

62 Mar 23, 2008 at 14:51 by Anonymous

“If I were you, I’d play on the safe side; go with Ron Paul”

Exactly. If every of the lazy cowards who says “elections are useless, he can’t win anyway” WOULD ACTUALLY vote for him, he’d win for sure with 80% ahead of the competition. It’s really that simple. I believe even US Americans have still enough functional brain cells for multiple-choice.

Whether he’s actually better than others, nobody knows but nothing is worse than Bush. Obama vs. Hillary vs. McCain is like one monkey against the other. Do you really want to keep on letting MONkEYs run and ruin your country? Really I don’t care that much what US Americans bring upon themselves but leave the rest of the world out of it. Okay? Also you can keep your movies and TV series to yourself. I don’t fricking care. I don’t buy them. I don’t download them.

63 Mar 23, 2008 at 15:06 by fyver

Another torrentsite to add to the list :p
http://www.freakytorrent.com/

Like already mentioned the industry would need to make a site where we can download cheap movies,music,…
Thad would be good because it’s easyer to buy from the original maker of it.
They also seek it themselves by making all the publicity around torrents.
because of thad more and more people start to use torrents.
(sorry for my bad english i’m from belgium)

64 Mar 23, 2008 at 15:57 by Ben Jones

[quote comment="316943"]“If I were you, I’d play on the safe side; go with Ron Paul”

Exactly. If every of the lazy cowards who says “elections are useless, he can’t win anyway” WOULD ACTUALLY vote for him, he’d win for sure with 80% ahead of the competition. It’s really that simple. I believe even US Americans have still enough functional brain cells for multiple-choice.

Whether he’s actually better than others, nobody knows but nothing is worse than Bush. Obama vs. Hillary vs. McCain is like one monkey against the other. Do you really want to keep on letting MONkEYs run and ruin your country? Really I don’t care that much what US Americans bring upon themselves but leave the rest of the world out of it. Okay? Also you can keep your movies and TV series to yourself. I don’t fricking care. I don’t buy them. I don’t download them.[/quote]
quote]
I actually did some research on this, when the Pirate Party of the Us released their endorsement of Obama two months ago. Only two campaigns would even return my emails - paul and obama. Paul’s campaign was for stricter enforcement of copyright (it’s in the constitution, and violation of it is therefore a constitutional violation, and should be dealt with harsher) whilst Obama seemed to be fairly open to it.

I am 100% with you on the so-called ‘tactical voting’ though.

65 Mar 23, 2008 at 17:04 by Anon

Avoid using YouTorrent, they selectively filter out certain search terms

66 Mar 23, 2008 at 17:06 by larnc

Torrentspy should NOT be anywhere near the top 25 since they refuse to allow US visitors by using the lame excuse about the uncertain legal issues.

67 Mar 23, 2008 at 17:50 by =]

[quote comment="316291"]I attribute the rise of certain torrent sites to the demise of Demonoid[/quote]
i loved that site :(

68 Mar 23, 2008 at 20:28 by Anonymous

Hey guys,

Another site that is worth checking: http://www.direct-movies.com

Cool site like OscarTorrent

69 Mar 23, 2008 at 23:25 by steveballmer

I’d love to see all of them explode!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

70 Mar 24, 2008 at 05:31 by =]

[quote comment="317192"]I’d love to see all of them explode!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/quote

couldnt come up with anything better then explode? what a shity troll you are…

71 Mar 24, 2008 at 13:21 by Anonymous

agree with u …it’ll continue to grow

chk dis out
http://www.viewmablogs.blogspot.com/

72 Mar 24, 2008 at 21:28 by ArtyTorrent

How is torrentfreak.com doing on Alexa? That would be more indicative in the growth of file-sharing.

73 Mar 24, 2008 at 22:17 by h33t

great article

makes for interesting reading

74 Mar 24, 2008 at 23:14 by Jeff

[quote comment="317192"]I’d love to see all of them explode!

http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com/quote

FAIL!

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