Privacy has always been a major concern for BitTorrent users and there are only a few ways to remain anonymous. By using a secure connection, as the new TorrentPrivacy tool offers, you can bypass almost every firewall or traffic shaping application, while making sure that nobody can see what you're downloading.
Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try TorrentPrivacy, the only way to download torrents securely. The list is based on traffic rank reports from Compete and Alexa, backed up by visitor reports from some of the site admins. If you’re looking fo …
There are a lot of BitTorrent users in Lithuania, and the two largest BitTorrent sites in the country, Torrent.lt and Linkomanija.net are in the top 20 of Lithuania’s most visited websites. Of course, a country with plenty of ‘pirates’ has to have its o …
aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC), was thought to be first organized ‘warez’ group to coordinate the pre-release uploading of mp3s to the Internet. Founded in 1997 by members known as acid^rain and Viper, aPC’s forté was the pre-release of music CDs which …
Mininova.org is the most popular BitTorrent site. The site is ranked in the top 100 of all websites on the Internet according to statistics from Alexa. The first public version of Mininova went live in 2005 and was hosted at the DSL line of Niek van de …
The Pirate Bay is the the largest BitTorrent tracker, with over 10 million peers, and more that 2 million registered users. The Pirate Bay started out as a Swedish language site, founded by the Swedish pro-piracy movement PiratbyrÃ¥n. In October 2004, th …
We decided to compile a list of the 25 most popular BitTorrent sites, and see how their (relative) popularity has grown over the past three months. Out of the 25 sites in the list, 21 improved their ranking in Alexa’s list of most popular sites on the Inte …
The list is based on Alexa’s traffic rank, and this data was backed up by reports from quantified sites on quantcast and traffic reports from some of the site admins. Here is the list, as of December 29, public BitTorrent sites only. 1. Mininova …
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