New and Promising BitTorrent Sites
Written by Ernesto on February 14, 2008BitTorrent’s popularity is still growing, and new sites are launched every day. Unfortunately it is impossible to feature all the new sites here, so we decided to post a selection of BitTorrent sites that look promising, or offer something new.
PizzaTorrent
PizzaTorrent is a meta-search engine, inspired by the enormous success of another site we introduced last month, YouTorrent. The site has a similar look and feel as YouTorrent, but it also includes some unique features. One of the most significant differences is that it sorts the torrents by category. In the sidebar you can also click on one of the indexed sites to perform a direct search.
The search results are presented in a clean way and ordered by rank, which is the output of a formula that looks at the torrent name, keywords, date added, number of seeds and seeds vs. peers. The administrator of PizzaTorrent told TorrentFreak that his site is indeed based on the YouTorrent concept, but that he will continue to add more unique features.
Bit-Tunes
Bit-Tunes is a BitTorrent /iTunes mashup based on the popular blog platform Wordpress. The site collects information from iTunes on both the newly released and most popular albums available on the iTunes store. It fetches the album cover in high-resolution from online stores such as Amazon, and matches every album dynamically with torrent downloads available on various BitTorrent sites.
The Bit-Tunes administrator told TorrentFreak: The purpose of the site is to discover great music albums and new artists, and download music DRM-free without the need to go through the iTunes Store or own an iPod. I have a bunch more ideas of which contextual information can be added to every album (buy it on Amazon, preview / listen online), to provide an even better user experience.
LookTorrent
LookTorrent is another BitTorrent meta-search engine that was launched recently. The difference with PizzaTorrents is that search results are presented in tabs, similar to Torrent-Finder. Each tab shows the search results of one BitTorrent site, and you can select which sites you want to search. In addition, LookTorrent allows users to rate the sites and it displays search suggestions at the bottom of every results page.
ShareByte
ShareByte is different from most other search engines because it is a community driven site where users add and edit the torrents. At the moment is is still a bit low on content, but the idea might appeal to people who like to participate. All the files are categorized and links to subtitles, video trailers, IMDB ratings and more are included, or can be added by users.
In addition, the site offers some useful features to registered users, as they can add torrents to their favorites and rate the audio and video quality of the files.
As said before, BitTorrent meta-search engines can be really useful, but they are useless if all the sites they index host the same .torrent files. A bit more diversity might be a good idea, especially in the long term.
Do you know any other new BitTorrent sites that are worth visiting? Leave a comment and share it with us…
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[quote comment="289953"]Really the only thing torrent related that I am looking for is the return of Demonoid[/quote]
Can I have an “AMEN”!
[quote comment="289889"]Hmm.. Still need more trackers and less search tools.[/quote]
Agreed. TPB FTW! For now at least :P
[quote comment="290071"]today i came across a site that looks very similar to demonoid, i loved demonoids layout and easy it was to use. so i gave it a try, and im getting great speeds on my movie downloads. i really think this could be the next great community.
http://www.torrentstorage.com/quote
Thanx a lot man.This site keeps us remembering the site i have never seen before,it was a great site
“Do you know any other new BitTorrent sites that are worth visiting? Leave a comment and share it with us…”
Hello everyone,
http://randombytes.org/
The is very new but we’re working on improvements as we speak. It’s probably best to sign up now as most of our torrents are going to be set to freeleech for a while. Pre-times are usually pretty good. Anyway, feel free to stop in and check it out. If anyone is interested in becoming an uploader or if you need anything else, feel free to send me a private message and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Cheers!
FiReBRaND
good site, thx. happy torrent freak.
try
http://www.SceneLeech.Org
They will all FAIL! Remember what happned to the flash based site? FAIL! Torrentz will just shut em down like they did b4.
[quote comment="290553"]stop posting about all the same web20 crap meta searches. the oldest and best one to compare search results is still http://www.torrents.to/quote
Which is, you’ve guessed it, just another web 2.0 crap meta search-site.
http://torrentz.com does a far better job, in my view. And has a readable font-size, ffs.
The new TorrentSearch Engines look fancy. But they all nearly index the same sh*t .. ehm … sites.
I use a customized Google Search Engine which I found on the internet and which is working really good for me. It indexes over 80 Torrentsites which is much more than all the other meta search engines out their indexes. ;)
But have a look yourself:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=003067875025321206147:clvnep3rh6k
http://www.freethescene.net
3k members almost in a short time
open registration
[quote comment="290564"]thanks for the torrentstorage.com link
It VERY nice. Its an actual tracker and not as search engine as well[/quote]Actually no, it’s not an actual tracker. It’s the crappiest attempt at copying demonoid I’ve seen. On their forum - I just found out - they asterix out the word demonoid. Like, how old are these kids? Kindergarten bullies, that’s what they are. No respect for Deimos or the source of their userbase.
Also hosted somewhere on an openvz server in the US. Won’t last very long, mark my words.
[quote comment="290776"]http://www.freethescene.net
3k members almost in a short time
open registration[/quote]
Yet another one at leaseweb. How much time do you give them? I’m placing a bet on 5 months, max.
Superior1[quote comment="290815"][quote comment="290564"]thanks for the torrentstorage.com link
It VERY nice. Its an actual tracker and not as search engine as well[/quote]Actually no, it’s not an actual tracker. It’s the crappiest attempt at copying demonoid I’ve seen. On their forum - I just found out - they asterix out the word demonoid. Like, how old are these kids? Kindergarten bullies, that’s what they are. No respect for Deimos or the source of their userbase.
Also hosted somewhere on an openvz server in the US. Won’t last very long, mark my words.[/quote]
Well the site shows Demonoid words on it for me and hey if anything if it did block out Demonoid I guess it would be just the same as the demon forums blocking out ALL other torrent sites names ;)
Either way you go enjoy what you enjoy, there is nothing wrong with having some fun with a used to be site out there
Whats the scene think about all these torrent trackers popping up making their releases public?
[quote comment="289889"]Hmm.. Still need more trackers and less search tools.[/quote]
Please give us a tutorial on how to set up and maintain a tracker which will evade the sheriffs. Thanks.
youtorrent.com isn’t working
TSD-Trader.info is a great private but registration is open tracker for MMA and other such files with good speeds and fast ups im hooked there lol
after reading thru it really feels good to be among you all. thanx for ur contribution
Here’s another one for you:
http://radioarchive.cc
Open registration
no commerce
zero advertising/click tracking
Run by enthusiasts
novices welcome
1300 torrents and rising
2600 members - ditto
check it out :)
These sites are shite
PizzaTorrent? Give me a break.
More actual trackers are needed, not silly search engines who want to make $ on advertising.
and they say its us tracker owners that are raking in the money jeez!!
these places are just for that, they just wanna help themselves.
its about time TF gave proper news not this shite that they get back handers for.
trackers are the ones that are part of the community not these stupid meta search sites that are just there to make the ppl money while the ppl helping bittorrent by running a tracker are struggling to stay afloat.
support the ppl that help the community not the ones that just wanna make money off it via ads n stuff!!!!
TF should change its name to META_FREAK!!
Ernesto for gods sake stop with this shit!
support the ones who actually give to the community not just the ones that reape other sites for their torrents to make themselves money and give them big ego’s.
[quote comment="289942"]i’m still looking for a bittorrent site besides isohunt for comics, since demonoid went down :([/quote]
MovieX.info is my new demonoid! Its really worth looking at.
And why does torrentfreak keep featuring search sites? Who needs them?
torrentstorage, id pass on that one its a sh1thole
torrentstorage, id pass on that one its a $h1th0le
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