The Mighty ShareReactor Returns – Now With Added Torrents
Written by enigmax on December 17, 2008ShareReactor was one of the world’s biggest and most popular eDonkey indexing sites with over a quarter million members. The Swiss police shut down the site in 2004 but now, four years later, the file-sharing giant is set to make a full return. Supported by The Pirate Bay team, it’s adding BitTorrent to its arsenal.
Back in 2004, no-one would dispute that ShareReactor was a file-sharing force to be reckoned with. With roots stretching back to 2001, it had amassed over 250,000 members and was a truly huge site, providing eD2k (eDonkey) links for an ever-growing and wildly enthusiastic file-sharing community.
Compared to the next largest eD2k site ‘Filenexus’, ShareReactor was twice the size, with millions of pageviews pushed through its servers before The Pirate Bay and Suprnova had even registered their domains.
On March 10th 2004, the site was shut down by Swiss police, who seized the servers and detained the site owner, Christian Riesen, aka Simon Moon, for a day for questioning. Almost immediately the ShareReactor forum reappeared but without the popular eD2k links, and it took until September 2006 for the site to make a full return under new management. However, it wasn’t to last, and within a month the site was closed again.
Of course, there are few things that the file-sharing community love more than a big comeback, and today they aren’t going to be disappointed. ShareReactor, one of the original file-sharing giants, is to return, this time with completely new management team and some serious backing in the form of The Pirate Bay, who will assist with hosting and PR.
Episode 19, in a network far, far away a lone technician plugs in the final cable into an almost forgotten big machine complex, identified by a faded green label as ‘ShareReactor’. Everything hums and comes alive. The first input from the technician is ‘But what does it all mean?’, to which the machines in unison reply: 42!
For eDonkey fans – particularly those who used the site back in 2004 – the site will immediately provide some nostalgia. Although the site has been redesigned, the team has decided to keep the original spirit of 2004 alive with a familiar theme and graphics. Additionally, all of the eD2k links the site had in its database will return, making a truly impressive library, and these are being complemented with fresh links across the whole content spectrum.
Some will argue that BitTorrent is a crucial requirement for a successful P2P site in 2008, and this fact hasn’t eluded the new ShareReactor team. The site will now index both eD2k and .torrent links, offering the very best that the world’s major networks have to offer. Indeed, some 500 new releases have been added already, with some releases on the site offered in dual format – both BitTorrent and eD2k.
‘Utopat’, who leads the four man admin team consisting of ‘chaykin’, ‘DCJoeDog’ and ‘O-MEGA, told TorrentFreak that the site will be keeping up to date with the latest TV series, with links to these being posted promptly to the site. Furthermore, each release – no matter if it relates to a TV show, movie, software or game – will not have multiple versions.
“If it’s not a private torrent site, you see the same TV show episode 20 times, the same game 50 times and with applications you might see hundreds of copies of the same thing,” he told TorrentFreak. On ShareReactor there will be just one .torrent and eD2k link for each release and these will be moderated, ensuring an easy choice for the user and guaranteeing quality.
“There are so many viruses, fake torrents or simply not-working torrents, it’s hard for many users to find what they want. Sure, the seasoned users know how to spot the bad apples, but let’s face it, that’s not the majority,” Utopat told us. These problems won’t be appearing on ShareReactor.
The core of many file-sharing sites lies in the strength of its forum community, and ShareReactor will be no different. The site will have a dedicated standalone forum and for ex-members looking for immediate membership, all they have to do is enter their previous username and password, since they have all been retained. Anyone with a shorter memory or simply new to the site can create a new login with ease.
For those looking to make a few friends and maybe meet up with some faces from the past, ShareReactor has an IRC channel – #ShareReactor on EFNet.
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Wooohooo, here they come noone will tuoch doom…
Is it xmas already ?
wow, they are back, i remember that site back in the time :D kool
Moderated links to the good stuff… What else can be asked for? How much further can we take things?
Is sharereactor the end all, be all of file-sharing?
#1 choice for site of the year.
finally some good news :)
So far none of the file I want are available as torrents yet…just ed2k links…..hope this changes very soon.
sounds cool. do they track torrents too or just index them?
First experience report:
In case you want to revive an old, pardon me, ancient forum account, like me, you’d better remember the email adress you used back then for registering.
The old encrypted passwords have to be reset.
Too bad if this old email adress isn’t valid any more, though. ;)
You’d have to reregister a completely new user account to a new email adress.
Then be patient,
very patient,
until some day, maybe,
the activation email arrives,
if at all.
;)
Seems like they are hosted in USA… ?
The domain “sharereactor.com” is indeed registered in the US.
The server’s IP belongs to a swedish subnet though.
Do a traceroute.
Look a bit closer. The domain provider is the same as the one for ThePirateBay.org and if you look at the IP’s you might notice they also look very close to the TPB’s ones because IT IS HOSTED BY TPB. Reading helps, I heard :)
Yay!
Morons close site… site comes back, morons again close site… again old site comes back.
If they cant even close old sites when new sites are popping up all the time how can they even *hope* to win this?
Keep going mr. MAFIAA, bring out your pea shooters while we ready the scud missiles and bunker busters… followed by MOABs…
Welcome back, ShareReactor!
woot woot
God Bless Pirat’ Byran
I think I have something in my eye lol
Pirate Bay is the leader of the worldwide resistance against MAFFIA and last hope for mankind.
@11
wtf?
thepiratebay.org -> 83.140.65.11
sharereactor.com -> 212.63.222.24
how are those IPs similiar? and sharereactor is registred by “owner-organization: ID Domain Privacy Network (IDdp.Net)” while tpb is registered on some german company “Sponsoring Registrar:Key-Systems GmbH (R51-LROR)”
the only thing they have visibly in common is fredrik neij as registrar for the tpb domain and as owner of sharereactors hosting company
@12 well it’s the same persons behind both sites so if they are a hydra then all their heads are on one neck
Why resurrect an old ass edonkey site? I mean i know edonkey has a somewhat healthy userbase, mostly consisting of eastern european retards, but most of it is slow as hell and the whole queueing system is pants. Edonkey has been dieng a slow and painful death, bury it already, move on, stop digging up skeletons and expecting them to dance.
@stfu
LOL.
Can you read? As the article says, ShareReactor is now a combination eDonkey/Torrent site.
So it doesn’t really matter if eDonkey is Satan.
What does matter is that they’re going to be moderating the releases. No fake files? No malware? No redundant torrents? Tasty!
The only one file per game/video/program is great, but I would imagine having all the eggs in one basket isn’t that great of an idea, or is it?
I don’t know. Let me know.
Who cares they are back or not lol
Over 1000 public torrent sites coming and going everyday.
Mininova and thepiratebay is covering everything. no need extra public tracker lol
Peace
“Underground will live forever baby…We just like roaches! Never die… always livin’… And on that note, let’s get back to da program!” Trancesetters – ‘Roaches’
The more the merrier.
Welcome back ShareReactor & thank you Pirate Bay.
OMG the things of legends come back. MPAA and RIAA will be furious. It probably has to much publicity now to shut down. They used to be so big. It is nice that TPB are helping to resurrect ghosts. Today is a good day for pirates :D
“Why resurrect an old ass edonkey site? I mean i know edonkey has a somewhat healthy userbase, mostly consisting of eastern european retards, but most of it is slow as hell and the whole queueing system is pants.”
Try downloading something on BitTorrent that’s more than a year old. You’ll be lucky if it has 1 seed and 2 peers. If you’re very lucky, it might download at 20K/s. That’s if the tracker hasn’t gone down. How many of the comments on the torrent sites are “Please seed, I’m stuck at 86%!”?
eD2K allows near real-time searches of the network, so you’re not constantly looking at stuff that hasn’t been shared in months.
The eD2K network may be slow, but it’s pretty reliable.
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Been trying for 5 minutes to download a .torrent, but it just 404’s when you ask for the file.
Maybe it’s overloaded?
OMG no way dude that is insane!
wow, history re-emerges :o
Apparently people have forgotten what exactly happened the last time the site was revived. After about a month yeah, the whole site was sold to some advertisement agency and Simon Moon basically screwed all the users over big time.
neonscene.net your new place u can call home
#31: Only if you had read the welcome post, you’d know this is not true…
i was recently on there site just looking around because ive never heard of it and i clicked a link to a torrent down loader that they advertised and i got a white page saying ” you have been logged your IP adress is so n so do not download
illegally”
Does this mean i am being watched? please answer back, i wasnt even downloading anything and id really like to know what that ment.
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