Download Clean and Fast Torrents with BitSnoop

Written by Ernesto on October 10, 2009 

BitSnoop is a brand new torrent indexing site with a clean interface and some pretty unique features. Like most other search engines BitSnoop allows its users to search through a database of more than a million torrents. However, the site also ensures that the torrents they host have backup trackers included, but no duplicates.

BitSnoop was launched just a few days ago and the site currently indexes 1,480,666 torrents worth an impressive 1184.4 terabytes of data. In terms of functionality the site is not hugely different from other torrent indexers. Users can search for torrents, and the search results are presented in a clean fashion, sortable by seeders, leechers, health and size.

However, BitSnoop has one big advantage compared to other torrent search engines with a feature called TrackerMatch. Before a torrent appears on BitSnoop they make sure that the torrents include as many reliable backup trackers as possible. Duplicate and fake trackers on the other hand are carefully removed.

“Each tracker we scrape gets rigorously analyzed and filtered to exclude typos, errors and just junk in tracker URLs. We know about backup tracker hosts, redirects, DNS aliases, tracker clusters etc. — and we know how to deal with them so you don’t have to,” the BitSnoop team explains.

The advantage of TrackerMatch is two-fold. Firstly, it makes sure that users will be able to connect to as much peers as possible by including all trackers that are found for the same download. On the other hand it will save tracker owners resources because there are no unnecessary announces due to a torrent containing duplicate trackers.

Don’t expect too much in the way of speed increases though – in most cases it will be hardly noticeable. However, having multiple backup trackers will come in handy when a torrent’s main tracker goes down. With the recent troubles over at The Pirate Bay and Demonoid, this is no longer a hypothetical situation.

BitSnoop is definitely worth a bookmark. Even if you’re not planning to use it on a daily basis it will surely come in handy when you come across a torrent with a dead tracker on your preferred torrent search engine.

BitSnoop’s Homepage

bitsnoop

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134 Responses

1 Oct 10, 2009 at 22:51 by dc!

Frontpage has quite so many similarities to TPB frontpage :D

But actually, a good idea indeed.

2 Oct 10, 2009 at 22:57 by www.eZee.se

cool, will give it a shot… thanks for the info!

3 Oct 10, 2009 at 22:57 by GrammarNazi

“it makes sure that users will be able to connect to as much peers as possible by including”

should read

“it makes sure that users will be able to connect to as many peers as possible by including”

4 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:04 by Liuk

They forget a detail. They say their site is something like Google. Yes, but they simply don’t have even a part of the money Google has, and that means if somebody want to take them down, he will probably (80%?) succeed.

5 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:05 by Anonymous

Aweomse imo… been using it for the past 5 min.. and i am very impressed

6 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:05 by pensioner

thx for the info torrentreak i’ll check it out, alway nice to have another site to browse.

7 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:16 by Coolio

It’s ok but they use JAVA which is old technology. Sorry to say.

8 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:27 by cyberczar

@7 – so is cobol, but after 50 years it’s still going strong and still powers some of the most mission critical apps in the World. Just because a tech is old doesn’t make it obsolete.

Best tool for the job and all that.

With age and experience comes wisdom and perspective.

9 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:29 by SilandraZim

@7: If the technology works with min-to-no problems why replace it?

But yeah, it does look nice. I wish they had a way to submit/read comments for each individual torrents; I truly believe that is one of the big reasons TPB was so successful.

10 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:31 by Anonymous

@7, Java old technology? Are you from the planet of Troll? :)

11 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:32 by Jonas

@7 old tech, are you from the planet of Troll?

12 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:34 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

@SilandraZim

We actually plan rating and commenting system in not-so-distant future, still have lots of work in indexing department – not so simple to manage all this bytes online. :)

@Coolio

Java is not an old technology, it’s a mature technology. A bit different than old. Cobol is old. Still I’ve seen it power telecom apps which routinely crunch terabytes of data online – and work OK. :)

@cyberczar

Totally agree.

13 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:37 by Greenaces

Is it down for anyone else right now?

14 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:41 by lockerz.com invite @ nowalright@live.com

It does not seem to be working for me either….got this msg:

Hi,

We’re doing systems maintenance at the moment and should be back online really soon.

15 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:42 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

Back online, no worries. :)

16 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:50 by Greenaces

It’s still down for me.

17 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:51 by Rabbit80

@paval

How exactly will you defend yourselves when the RIAA come knocking at your door?

18 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:58 by D

Its full of porn….

19 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:58 by R0n

Nice site m8 :-)

Kinda like torrentz.com, anyway pavel_at_bitsnoop i wish u best of luck with the site.

20 Oct 10, 2009 at 23:59 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

@Rabbit80

We’re based in Russian Federation and will gladly follow Russian laws. :)

If **AA comes knocking – we have a procedure to remove torrent from index: http://bitsnoop.com/info/legal.html

If they are not satisfied – well, they are welcome to go and sue us.

21 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:00 by R0n

1 tip… make the search result’s closer together, so people dont have to scroll so much.

22 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:02 by Anonymous

Don’t like JAVA this is a no go for me.

23 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:04 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

@18

To be precise, it’s not our site full of porn, it’s TPBs index. :)

Robot is dragging in anything it can find.

Some sort of family-friendly search is in plans for future.

24 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:05 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

@R0n

Thanks, we will think about that!

25 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:08 by www.eZee.se

> Don’t like JAVA this is a no go for me.

What do you mean you dont like Java?
Its not like its downloading an Applet to your damn computer!

Java is a fantastic platform to program in for high activity sites, because unlike PERL or a host of others that are quick for a few visitors but slow down once you start talking serious traffic… Java is just the opposite.

I also agree with Ron, make the search results cells a bit closer please… its wayy too thick and thus too much scrolling is needed.

26 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:09 by www.NorSub.com

I think it looked nice! I hate all the sites with ads everywhere!

27 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:28 by Anonymous

@25 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:08 by http://www.eZee.se:

Stop the BS JAVA is a leaky language that crashes and burns more then others like PHP, Python or even the new comer LUA.

The execution stack is a joke, the security features don’t do their job right and leak all the way. What it is good about it?

It is not good for computational intensive tasks, have a lot of other shortcomings and is take ages to reload which wouldn’t be a problem if it was not so damn difficult to make it work right and not having it be reload a lot.

Besides the only JIT that is good is proprietary so you want to be stuck with it is your option not mine.

It is not f***** usable let alone mature.

Ask if anyone can make a JAVA app that will run a month LoL
The answer will be a handfull of pretty specialized guys that can.

28 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:28 by Anonymous

This is the way to go. Clean, simple and straight-forward interface. Keep it this way and you have a great future. Also, help us bring a TPB VPS to russia by contacting Brokep/Neij. Maybe you have contacts if you are located there.

29 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:33 by Anonymous

I forgot there is ruby on rails also that have a lot of short comings and still beats JAVA.

30 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:46 by Anonymous

I don’t know about about clean, sorted by most popular and you get a ton of new DVD rips in a rar file with a “get your password here” file. I have never had trusted that. But with the no comments yet, its a gamble.

31 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:50 by www.eZee.se

@27 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:28 by Anonymous,

Some valid points for sure, but i still dont get how it effects you if its running server side and you are just visiting the page.

(For the record, for the web, my personal preference is PHP)

32 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:59 by www.eZee.se

Comments badly needed, i think I would use this site… if it had comments (that’s the positive deal breaker) there’s wayyy too many fakes by the scum who write viruses, want to make a quick buck, anti piracy lowlifes etc

Just did a search on “public enemies” and saw a “DVDrip by axxo”, 4k plus seeds…. and a second “password_here.html” file… “download or dont download?” immd pops into mind.

I have a pretty fast connection (100mbps) so i don’t really mind downloading, but if its fake, i want to be able to write that so the next schmuck does not fall for that.

If you don’t have comments, you gotto be as good as vertor with screenshots.

33 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:03 by Dave

“We’re based in Russian Federation”

Nice. It would like to see MAFIAA mess with you guys.
Don’t fuck with the Russians man!

34 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:05 by charlie

this is a lie i searched a movie it said dvdrip cam just came out of halloween couple weeks back you should really fix this page

35 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:06 by Anonymous

@31 Oct 11, 2009 at 00:50 by http://www.eZee.se:

I may have to apologize for thinking that the interface of the site was JAVA and after going there found out that it doesn’t need any scripts enabled for it to work and for that I’m sorry.

I should have posted “If it uses a JAVA interface it will be a no go as I don’t like the language and didn’t bother to download a plugin that make it work.”

Again sorry. My bad.

36 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:13 by hmm

well how TF says you can download ‘clean’ torrents is beyond me. i tried several searches and all came back as either fakes or torrents with passwords and equally dodgy looking files inside. I appreciate that the results are dragged from tpb etc but you can’t claim to be something you aren’t.

37 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:19 by Superpirate

Great TPB alias, just wish they made allocation for Posters & visitors comments..& also had a tracker of their own!

4.5 stars!!! Great job!

38 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:20 by vyvyan

And they have their blog on blogger(Google) http://blog.bitsnoop.com/

Is this a joke?

39 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:23 by Anonymous

#2 on “Popular Torrent” is a fake..

http://bitsnoop.com/torrent?hash=b2ad79acb0f3b770a56d5926b1c075b918b19e28&q=&c=

site look great but need some “report” and “comment” section

40 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:24 by confused

going on the site and clicking on the popular tab i can see that there are axxo rips of ‘invention of lying’ and ‘zombieland’.
i find that the site is full of fake links.
I was under the impression that it would only show proper torrents, perhaps i misunderstood

41 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:29 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

Guys, we’re still in beta and we’re still sorting things out. :)

Comments and rating system are on the list for sure, also more advanced algorithms to filter porn/fakes etc.

Everything in its own time.

42 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:29 by www.eZee.se

@34 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:06 by Anonymous,

No harm done :),
you just had me really confused :))

@36, I guess having a tracker would make them too big a target.

Now that they got it running, i hope they put all the tuning up (eg design,css) aside and quickly get what most of us suggested (comments)… could be a good replacement for Mini if BREINless boots them off.

43 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:34 by confused

@40
if you can get comments and ratings sorted then you have one fan here already.
also looking forward to more advanced algorithms :)

keep up the good work!

44 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:38 by GrX

Quickest way to kill a site is by launching something which doesn’t work or does what it says on the tin.

this is why my project (not named yet) is still not been announced here on TF we feel something should be 100% working without issues or problems and fully tested before opening or letting the public try something.

Great idea and great that someone is actually doing something instead of sitting back and watching the world go by.

Maybe you should sort out the fakes and the passworded content first anf foremost before anything else.

work on them points keep your user base happy then over time keep an eye on peoples suggestions and keep the site clean you’ll do well

but i would seriously spend the majority of your time working on the fakes and passworded content that is a complete site killer.

45 Oct 11, 2009 at 01:44 by www.eZee.se

Ok, I’m outa here, but just have to write one last comment as this thread seems kind of empty without Reasoned M(oron)… so I shall try to fill that void:

xx Oct 11, 2009 at 0x:xx by Reasoned Mind

The internet police are coming, I suggest you close down that site immediately because it does nothing but infringe on hard working creators from getting their justly due (prostitutes).

Copyright was a system agreed upon by society and Bitsnoop is just going against what society has already agreed upon, it is an abomination and will be dealt with severely by the worlds governments when they come together in one giant orgasm to save copyright’s mantle.

Sorry, i just couldnt write the drivel RM writes without adding a little bit ;)

46 Oct 11, 2009 at 02:00 by schmendrick

@bitsnoop:
you did a very good job so far. sure, there is always space for improvement, but you guys are on your way.

@the tech guys:
is there a way to connect comments with this torrent hash thingy so that if someone rates/comments a torrent on site A, it can be referred to on site B (if its the same of course)? maybe the torrent sites out there can create somekind of standard for this to make it easier. nevermind if this is a stupid idea.

47 Oct 11, 2009 at 02:05 by Reasoned Mind

Look everyone, I am sorry I said anti-Pirate statements. I quit 1 minute ago! So I started Downloading some music from BitSnoop. Pirating is actually better. Thanks for enlightening me. Thank you so much. I am finally listening!

48 Oct 11, 2009 at 02:33 by Nef

Tested it. Looks neat, but thats´all.

I´ll stick with http://www.torrentroot.com.

Way better results.

49 Oct 11, 2009 at 03:32 by ngwoo

This is a good indexer. I don’t know why people are complaining – the only issue I can see with it is that there are no comments yet. Any searches I have done have been mostly relevant.

50 Oct 11, 2009 at 03:57 by Anonymous

there were axxo dvdrips of number 9 and surrogates on there!

Only a few hundred peers and seeders, too. I almost wonder if its legit or if its some scammer that jumped fast and snagged an account named axxo?

51 Oct 11, 2009 at 04:05 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

@49

These are scams I think. Torrents like this usually contain passworded RAR and “password_here” HTML page with spam.

52 Oct 11, 2009 at 04:06 by zygulpy

first

53 Oct 11, 2009 at 04:07 by trustnoone

unfortunately don’t like it :( its interface, an how it looks, looks like it could become big though, cant wait till then

54 Oct 11, 2009 at 04:11 by emilio

I search hellsing, and this came out

Bugger, code 500 — internal server error.

freaging news….

55 Oct 11, 2009 at 04:14 by mongoose

Looks promising. Very minimalist like TBP. Only complaint is the position of the listing for number of seeds/peers

56 Oct 11, 2009 at 04:48 by Anonymous

I like it! I generally know exactly which torrent I want to download and I choose which site to download it from based on where I think it’ll have the best announce URL’s. The site is by no means perfect, but I’ll definitely be using it for its main feature, well managed announce URL’s.

57 Oct 11, 2009 at 05:13 by au

Excellent idea.

It is interesting to read their legal section “..we operate under laws of Russian Federation, we do not need to comply to DMCA”.

58 Oct 11, 2009 at 05:36 by Anonymous

Nice site.

59 Oct 11, 2009 at 06:08 by Anonymous

“With DMCA”, not “to DMCA”, ?????.

60 Oct 11, 2009 at 06:20 by Anonymous

The axxo torrents look fake. Is there a way to confirm which ones are fake?

61 Oct 11, 2009 at 07:01 by TheTruth

that site smells fishy, anybody else got the same gut feeling?

62 Oct 11, 2009 at 07:06 by Will

Hi,

Cleans up bitsnoop.com a bit:

http://userstyles.org/styles/21703

See screen-shot. :D

Enjoy,

Will

63 Oct 11, 2009 at 07:22 by TheTruth

Domain name: bitsnoop.com

Registrant Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent ()

Fax:
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St – F1
C/O bitsnoop.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US

Administrative Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (fmllhcvg@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4259744730
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St – F1
C/O bitsnoop.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US

Technical Contact:
Whois Privacy Protection Service, Inc.
Whois Agent (fmllhcvg@whoisprivacyprotect.com)
+1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4259744730
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St – F1
C/O bitsnoop.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
dns1.name-services.com
dns2.name-services.com
dns3.name-services.com
dns4.name-services.com
dns5.name-services.com

Creation date: 25 Aug 2009 07:51:02
Expiration date: 25 Aug 2010 07:51:02

64 Oct 11, 2009 at 08:14 by TheShadow

this site sucks, you can’t post comments on whether the torrent is fake or real, and i already see fake torrents like this one..
Zombieland[2009]DvDrip-aXXo

riiight, because aXXo still puts up torrents… this site sucks.

65 Oct 11, 2009 at 08:17 by Haze

I like it. Bookmarked

66 Oct 11, 2009 at 08:23 by TheShadow

I do like the top 100 feature tho, just like TPB. where else can i find that if TPB goes down?! isohunt doesn’t have it and neither does mininova..

67 Oct 11, 2009 at 08:26 by Anonymous

They really need to include and use http://www.torrentspam.com’s API so people can report all these fake torrents and they can filter them out.

68 Oct 11, 2009 at 08:28 by Simplex

Nice site, best of luck to you Pavel :) I can see myself using it once it better sorts fakes, and has a comments section.

69 Oct 11, 2009 at 08:50 by IH

pointing out that isoHunt.com been doing this for years. That is, automated tracker cross referencing and merging same torrents based on info_hash, from 500+ sites we index (http://isohunt.com/stats.php?mode=btSites). Trackers and S/L stats are updated on avg. every 2 hours

70 Oct 11, 2009 at 10:27 by 5995

Fantastic site… I did some random searches and was very impressed with the fact that I received very relevant and quality results… some thing that you rarely receive when you search tpb. The quality of the results were comparable to what id expect while searching demonoid… i will be using this site until demonoid is back up.

Other thoughts:

This site is kind of like isohunt done right

Needs a comment feature?

71 Oct 11, 2009 at 10:35 by 5995

erm, also… like others have pointed out there is a ton of spam/fakes… like videos posted in rar files with an html document called “password here” seems to be a common one.

72 Oct 11, 2009 at 11:56 by Rez

I’m very impressed actually.

The first indexer that gave me open tracker search results for Mad Men S03E05 720p. I was searching for weeks for that one.

Bookmarked!

73 Oct 11, 2009 at 12:01 by Rez

PS: Now all they need are custom RSS feeds and I’m completely happy.

74 Oct 11, 2009 at 12:43 by pink panther

FAIL – the first 2 torrents I tried to download are dead – no seeders.

75 Oct 11, 2009 at 12:48 by Justme

I am confused, I trusted TF to make a good recommendation, D/L a few files and they didn’t pass a simple virus scan. Thanks for the mis-leading info TF!!!!

76 Oct 11, 2009 at 12:52 by Al

I like this passage in your legal section:

“By sending email to the address mentioned above you grant us nonexclusive rights to reproduce, distribute your emails and use them in any way we deem neccessary”

77 Oct 11, 2009 at 13:08 by IDK399

Dragnet. Run!

78 Oct 11, 2009 at 13:21 by me

Kudos to Pavel & team. Very good so far. Keep up the good work.

79 Oct 11, 2009 at 14:08 by KsbjA

Google + TPB = Win!

80 Oct 11, 2009 at 14:09 by ...

A lot (if not all) of the popular torrents contain a file that directs you to a site which gives you a password to open it.

The documents have obvious names though and are easy to spot.

81 Oct 11, 2009 at 14:45 by .,.

hai
  ?
 ? ?

82 Oct 11, 2009 at 14:45 by paula

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you’ll meet singles you’re looking for — single men, single women, local singles, even a love match.
By taking a personal approach to personal ads, you can find a date and find singles for Military dating, Jewish dating, black dating, gay dating, or senior dating. With our matchmaking capabilities, you can find that unique person who gets what you’re all about, quirks and all.
That person who says what you were about to say, who isn’t mortified when you make a social blunder, whose scent you’d liketo bottle, and whose smile you’d like to wake up to every day. That’s why we give you an audience filled with local singles, the tools to find and meet single women and single men,
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You still might meet the love of your life at a coffeehouse or gas station. But with __http://www.UniformedCupid.com__, instead of sitting around waiting for that to happen, you’ll be getting dates from online dating and having a fabulous time.

83 Oct 11, 2009 at 15:09 by Cordelia

Well the site is hosted in Russia, right? Couldn’t be any safer then!

That whole country is literally one big Pirate Bay, but they cannot be intimidated by MRIIA or any other American clowns.

Pirate Bay with nukes…. :-)
Go Russia!

(ps – ppl ought to stop dissing Russia, you’d be surprised — it’s a very nice country)

Good luck to Pavel, I’ll be using it and seeding.

84 Oct 11, 2009 at 15:14 by Xcel

Sorry if this has already been said, I admit I havent read all the comments…

The site needs to catagorize a little more, break it down so its easier to find stufff if your just browsing through… eg, TV,Movies,Games,Apps…

Yeas kind of like TPB… but you know the best site search that I havve used? Demonoids, you can break it down even to the language you want, its great!…

Anyway, other than that looks like a decent site #bookmarked#

85 Oct 11, 2009 at 16:22 by Anonymous

After experimenting, I’ll say that it is not clean.

Without the comments is like trying things blind and hoping for the best.

@45 Oct 11, 2009 at 02:00 by schmendrick:

http://www.torrentz.com/
Use this site they do exactly what you wish for.

86 Oct 11, 2009 at 16:52 by weblamer

Uhm, site inaccessible… Samara, Russia, 14:52 GMT (19:52 local time)

87 Oct 11, 2009 at 17:11 by aXXo

WTF, it does not open!
maybe TF has given it the right amount of publicity and has unknowingly given it a DoS attack!

88 Oct 11, 2009 at 17:14 by Anonymous

yep there’s a message saying that it’s down for maintenance though….. i wouldn’t worry =)

89 Oct 11, 2009 at 18:13 by knux

Yar, me likey…

“By sending email to the address mentioned above you grant us nonexclusive rights to reproduce, distribute your emails and use them in any way we deem neccessary.”

90 Oct 11, 2009 at 18:18 by SirReal

Fantastic idea, and for those of you that think it sucks, its still in beta. I personally would be interested in seeing collaboration with vertor.com, that would be amazing.

91 Oct 11, 2009 at 18:26 by dwpbike

first thing i see is divxmonkey has posted the spam torrent (rar file) that i have reported on several other sites. no way to report on bitsnoop.

92 Oct 11, 2009 at 19:08 by Username ENTER

The ability to add comments would make this site a great mirror image of tpb

93 Oct 11, 2009 at 19:16 by Anonymous

Sounds like a good idea, but it’s not yet ready to service users, because it offers all the fake and crap torrents the robot has found. Maybe you should have waited to have a fully operational site instead of publishing the beta to the public…

Except when the law requires you to sell/rent private information?

I love the part about giving permission to publish the legal emails upon sending any. I wonder if that applies to the included passport scans? ;)

Yeah, I’d sure scan my passport and send it to RUSSIA. :)

Could TheTruth explain what Whois Privacy means? Who’d name their company starting with the word Whois.

94 Oct 11, 2009 at 19:23 by BK

I searched for Michael Moore’s “Capitalism: A Love Story.” I downloaded it from three different links that Bitsnoop supplied, and every single copy downloaded was a fake file. And from looking at how many others were downloading the movie, it looks like many others were wasting time downloading it too.

95 Oct 11, 2009 at 19:40 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

@89

This is actually a parody on standard corporate server-generated mail footer with legal BS.

Seen them too much. :)

96 Oct 11, 2009 at 19:43 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

@93

We’re working to make site better and add more features, for now we went online to start production tests of index search.

> I wonder if that applies to the included passport scans? ;)

No way we’re letting out users personal information, no sir!

The “rights to reproduce” thing is a countermeasure against legal blah-blah most law firms will send (i.e., “We want you to shut down your site but you cannot tell anyone that we do!”). :-)

97 Oct 11, 2009 at 19:59 by Gisha

BitSnoop ain’t that great, yet. It indexes alot of fake torrents. The most popular torrent right now is called “Capitalism – A Love Story (2009) DVDRip XviD – DivxMonkey” and that one is fake.

I hope some time in the near future BitSnoop adds more features so people can add comments and/or flag torrents if they’re fake or contains virus so other people doesn’t download the files and gets disappointet.

Welcome to teh intarwebs BitSnoop and good luck :)

98 Oct 11, 2009 at 20:14 by leakz_net

Very cool site, very light interface.

Some fake torrents yeah, but thats manageable (altho there shud be some indicating thingie atleast about fake/verified torrents)

Its always good to see other brothers at work. Good Luck !!! :D

http://leakz.net

99 Oct 11, 2009 at 20:15 by Gisha

Sorry, just realised the comment-feature is on the drawingboard… I should’ve read some comments before I posted mine >_<

100 Oct 11, 2009 at 20:40 by mark

pavel_at_bitsnoop,

what sort of hardware/software are you running the site on?

curious how you compare to TPB and Mini

101 Oct 11, 2009 at 20:50 by Anonymouse

I gave it a go and searched for some torrents I am currently downloading and it couldn’t find any of them.

This is not a good site – yet – but maybe I’ll try again in a month or so to see if they’ve got their act together.

102 Oct 11, 2009 at 20:55 by Spammers

this is a bought advertisement and written for cash from torrentfreak. This is why this site disgusts me. I only came here to say that. torrentfreak=scum

103 Oct 11, 2009 at 21:13 by ROLF

nice site…will check out!

104 Oct 11, 2009 at 21:25 by Anon

yeah
torrentfreak has a link on bitsnoop page

torrentfreak traded for free advert

kinda makes you wonder how valid/slanted the news/opinions on torrentfreak are?

i read “bitsnoop is clean” so i went to look and the top four under most popular are all fakes and the 2009 ups from axxo?? lol

once old school distribution is run out of town the “pirates” will have to go to work on the “misleading advertisers”

no wonder the US is going to start fining bloggers who get paid for endorsements

105 Oct 11, 2009 at 21:37 by prodigydancer

BitSnoop is buggy. It shows vastly incorrect total sizes (e.g. ~600MB for a known 32GB torrent, or even 18MB for a 28GB one).

Also incorrectly displays sizes for individual files within these torrents.

So, unfortunately it’s not really useful right now. Let’s see if they’ll fix it.

106 Oct 11, 2009 at 22:04 by Anonymous

So far every DL from that site was a fake. Clean? Nah.

107 Oct 11, 2009 at 22:38 by hmm

why oh why you’d use this over torrentz is beyond me! every torrent listed is a fake ffs! why release a totally unfinished site?

108 Oct 11, 2009 at 23:17 by Muffins

I know it’s irrelevant but the name is terrible. Besides they have a long way to go. Without user comments and rating system I don’t find the site to be all that reliable and I won’t be downloading from it.

Methinks the design is terrible too. Simple is good, but it looks fugly.

109 Oct 11, 2009 at 23:25 by qwertyuiop

Why no user comments feature? I rely on the users input to determine if a torrent is fake or not.
RIAA probably owns this site.

110 Oct 12, 2009 at 02:41 by Tried and true

So I bit the bullet and decided to use the site to find some torrents. So far I’ve downloaded Fargo and Shaun of the Dead (completely random I know). Both were legitimate and I’m downloading Catch Me If You Can as I type this. I wouldn’t touch the axxo files though, you can even see in the file list, it shows that the movie is in a rar, which makes me not trust it 100%.

111 Oct 12, 2009 at 02:42 by Tried and true

Also speeds are great. I’m consistently getting 350kB/s.

112 Oct 12, 2009 at 03:01 by chisophugis

I just downloaded a couple torrents and about half of the trackers included don’t work. I guess it’s no harm done, but I expected a bit more from them.

113 Oct 12, 2009 at 04:10 by Don't like it

After trying to download 5 movies 4 out of 5 of them were that playvix shit. when you get rid of those trackers that use that i’ll start using it.

114 Oct 12, 2009 at 04:59 by cory

Every torrent I downloaded was a scam add. All the files were compressed and needed a password to uncompress. I didn’t find anything useful at all. I cam back to torrent freak to make sure the article wasn’t some sort of scam.

115 Oct 12, 2009 at 06:18 by Locutus47

Full of fakes

116 Oct 12, 2009 at 07:27 by Anonymous

Nothing but fakes. I don’t even need to download the torrents to know this. Files that say get_password_here.html are pretty obvious don’t ya think? Glad I moved on to private trackers. F00K this public $h17.

117 Oct 12, 2009 at 10:02 by Anonymous

Read more careful: the article only says the UI is clean. :)

Good luck with the work. This site could replace TPB!

118 Oct 12, 2009 at 11:10 by Anonymous

Honestly, stop complaining that there are a lot of fakes.

You must be idiots to not know what is fake and what is the real deal.

Best of luck with the site.

119 Oct 12, 2009 at 11:11 by Anonymous

Very unique torrent site, the way the searches are not in a table and set out more like google is very nice. There are so many good features that I can not explain in one post.

To all the people saying its full of fakes.. Its a “BETA”

And all you noobs out there who have no idea what a “BETA” is:

Preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product; “a beta version”; “beta software”
Taken from wordnetweb(dot)princeton(dot)edu/perl/webwn

Personally I would NOT recommend anyone to use this until a comment and reporting system is implemented. Without this, this site would not be trustworthy. Not any amount of code can replace a humans intelligence.. For now that is.

To all the people who are saying the site sucks in terms of design .. Are you stupid? This is the most unique torrent site i have seen, im sure in time you will like it.

Great work pavel and team ;) Keep it up, this will definitely kick off once the comment and ranking system is implemented.

120 Oct 12, 2009 at 11:18 by Ant

alot of fake torrents on this

Popular Torrents

Inglourious Basterds (Inglorious Bastards) (2009) DVDRip XviD-ViSiON

Zombieland[2009]DvDrip-aXXo

etc etc. Thanks but no thanks

121 Oct 12, 2009 at 16:37 by p2pfreakk

…And to add to the list another Popular FAKE torrent I noticed which is alleged to be from the popular uploader FXG ….

Capitalism – A Love Story (2009) DVDRIP XVID – FXG

But the above is FAKE !!!!!!!!
Those aware of FXG accounts know that he has not uploaded this one yet…There are some aXXo torrents too ( and most knows that he is in sabbatical now ! )..

I am surprised that TorrentFreak is already promoting this site which is flooded with fake torrents inspite of owners claiming the strict filter used..

The only good recommendation I remember coming from TorrentFreak was for VERTOR when it went public…the site’s still good and torrents are truly verfied..

…BitSnoop has left much to be desired though !!!

122 Oct 12, 2009 at 19:37 by Anonymous

EXCELLENT dl-speeds!! Once peers can comment on “torrent is fake/good”, this is gonna be a kickass site!

123 Oct 12, 2009 at 23:41 by Anonymous

Unique design? Hahahahah, it looks exactly like TPB and TPB looks like google. Simple is good, but c’mon don’t start giving credit when credit isn’t due.

124 Oct 13, 2009 at 03:25 by Andrew

This is on their contact page:
“You’re a guy in a suit making nice bucks by enforcing imaginary property rights over the internets — read our copyright policy and mail legal@bitsnoop.com.”

Haha!

Very good website though, all the torrents downloaded very fast!!

125 Oct 13, 2009 at 19:52 by levitron

No comments, No go(.)

126 Oct 14, 2009 at 00:48 by pavel_at_bitsnoop

Hello all.

There are comments and rating now. No registration needed, anonymity guaranteed.

Enjoy! :)

127 Oct 14, 2009 at 01:51 by Anonymous

That was fast :o

Nice work guys ;)

Now no one can complain! Got to get peoples attention though.

Maybe get torrentleech to add in the description:

“now with comments and ratings”

128 Oct 14, 2009 at 01:54 by Anonymous

That was fast :o

Nice work guys ;)

Maybe get torrentfreak add in the description:

“Now with comments and ratings!”

129 Oct 14, 2009 at 01:57 by Anonymous

^ lol woops, thought the first post didnt post

130 Oct 15, 2009 at 04:25 by Ninja

PHEAR THE HYDRA!!!!!

131 Oct 15, 2009 at 18:29 by Positron

@ 126 Oct 14, 2009 at 00:48 by pavel_at_bitsnoop:

First off, congratulations on the launch of your website! I’ve tried it today, and I must say, it works really well for me. It looks nice and clean too. I’ve also posted my first comment on a torrent on your website, hoping to contribute a little to the effectiveness of this indexer.

Secondly, I was wondering if you’re planning on introducing the possibility of connecting to your website through SSL, in the near future. A lot of other indexing websites offer this, and I would really welcome it to become available for your website as well.

Thanks for doing a great job so far!

132 Oct 15, 2009 at 21:49 by hackerguy

EVERYTHING FROM THIS BITSNOOP SITE IS BULLSHIT…YOU CANT GET ANYTHING THAT WORKS FROM IT

133 Oct 15, 2009 at 23:47 by Anonymous

Great to see the additions. This looks promising. I’d like to add another vote for the implementation of SSL.

134 Oct 22, 2009 at 11:28 by pavel_at_bitsnoop_com

We’re working on SSL support, it will be there in future.

Meanwhile we’ve launched TV Finder – automated torrent catalogue. No need to bother searching – browse your favorite shows! :)

http://bitsnoop.com/tv/

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