Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2013

Ernesto
January 6, 2013
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Continuing a long-standing New Year’s tradition, today we present an up-to-date list of the world’s most-visited BitTorrent sites. At the start of 2013 The Pirate Bay continues to pull in the most visitors, followed by KickassTorrents and Torrentz. Household names BTJunkie and Demonoid have dropped off the list as both sites are no longer online.

Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2013?

Traditionally BitTorrent users are very loyal, which is reflected in the top 10 where most sites have had a consistent listing for more than half a decade. This year there are a few movers and shakers, as well as several newcomers.

The most notable absentees this year are BTJunkie and Demonoid. Both sites have been featured in the top 10 since 2006, but went offline in 2012. BTJunkie permanently quit early last year and Demonoid’s future is also uncertain after it disappeared during the summer.

The first newcomer in tenth place is H33t, which has been growing steadily in recent years. The second newcomer is TorrentReactor, one of the oldest torrent sites around that makes its comeback after not making the list last year.

Then there is also a group of notable sites that didn’t make the cut, but deserve a mention. YIFY-torrents.com for example, which launched late 2011 and has grown exponentially since. Also worth mentioning are the Pirate Bay proxies, including Pirateproxy.net, which in itself almost deserves a spot in the top 10.

Below is the full list of the 10 most-visited torrent sites at the start of the new year. Only public and English language sites are included. The list is based on various traffic reports and we display the Alexa and U.S. Compete rank for each. In addition, we include last year’s ranking for each of the 10 sites.

Did we miss anything? Feel free to join the discussion below.

1. The Pirate Bay

To many people The Pirate Bay is the equivalent to BitTorrent. The site was founded in 2003 and is still expanding, despite the various legal troubles and new blockades in the UK and the Netherlands. The Pirate Bay currently has well over a billion page views a month.

Alexa Rank: 74 / Compete Rank: 398 / Last year #1

2. KickassTorrents

KickassTorrents was founded in 2009 and has moved up in our top 10 year after year. Responding to increasing worries over domain seizures, the site moved from its kickasstorrents.com domain to kat.ph in 2012. This year the site continued to grow, despite being blocked by Italian Internet providers.

Alexa Rank: 116 / Compete Rank: 719 / Last year #3

3. Torrentz

Torrentz has been the leading BitTorrent meta-search engine for many years. Unlike the other sites featured in the list Torrentz does not host any torrent files, it merely redirects visitors to other places on the web. The site uses several domain names with the .eu being the most popular.

Alexa Rank: 166 / Compete Rank: 882 / Last year #2

4. IsoHunt

Two years ago isoHunt became the first search engine forced to implement a keyword filter provided by the MPAA. Despite this setback, isoHunt continues to be listed among the world’s top torrent sites. isoHunt is currently trying to get rid of the filter through the Appeals Court.

Alexa Rank: 213 / Compete Rank: 1,935 / Last year #4

5. ExtraTorrent

ExtraTorrent continues to gain more traffic and has moved up again in the top 10, now being the 5th most visited torrent site. This success didn’t go unnoticed to rightsholders groups such as the RIAA and MPAA who have called out ExtraTorrent as one of the top pirate sites recently.

Alexa Rank: 279 / Compete Rank: 1,973 / Last year #6

6. 1337x

1337x focuses more on the community aspect than some competitors. The site’s owners say they started 1337x to “fill an apparent void where it seemed there was a lack of quality conscience ad free torrent sites with public trackers.” The site moved up from spot 10 last year to 6th in 2013.

Alexa Rank: 1,031 / Compete Rank: 9,228 / Last year #10

7. EZTV

Unlike the other sites in the top 10, TV-torrent distribution group EZTV is a niche site specializing in TV content only. It was one of the newcomers last year despite being around for more than 7 years, and is relatively popular among Australians. Because of its focus on TV-content EZTV’s traffic varies in line with the TV-seasons.

Alexa Rank: 1,128 / Compete Rank: 16,622 / Last year #8

8. Bitsnoop

BitSnoop is one of the largest BitTorrent indexes, claiming to index a massive 19,091,736 torrent files at the time of writing. The site’s traffic continues to grow steadily, as do the DMCA notices that it receives.

Alexa Rank: 1,159 / Compete Rank: 5,648 / Last year #9

9. TorrentReactor

TorrentReactor is back in the top 10 after dropping off last year. A few months ago the site was blocked by a court order in Italy, but the site nonetheless continues to gain visitors.

Alexa Rank: 1,314 / Compete Rank: 4,530 / Last year #NA

10. H33t

H33T has been around for many years and has built a dedicated user base, mostly in Europe and Asia. Despite the wishes of the music industry, the site isn’t yet blocked by any court orders. The site made the news a few months ago when its owner took a stand against the avalanche of copyright takedown requests.

Alexa Rank: 1,403 / Compete Rank: 6,234 / Last year #NA

Disclaimer: Yes, we know that Alexa isn’t perfect and that Compete has plenty of flaws, but combined both do a pretty good job at comparing sites that operate in a similar niche.

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Guest

TPB forever!
- Bananas
  
  h33t is the beat for audio app
- Universal Soldier
  
  What about the private ones?
  - http://profile.yahoo.com/PIEB5XKWQ5AA6PGK75PTXQEZSA Hugh
    
    You’re googling it to get a clue what it is, not clicking on a link that may be bad or bogus.!
    http://torrentfreak.com.qr.net/j38Z/music-biz-wants-to-block-pirate-bay-plus-260-additional-sites-130105/
  - DodgeCharger
    
    they are private for a reason…
- Bananas
  
  TPB has more content. h33t is always updated with the lastest releases. KickAss has stuff you can’t find in both. The 3 together are the best; Generically IsoHunt is great too but their search does not work well.
  - Algomalo
    
    demonoid used to be the best overall
  - PerfectShit
    
    TPB, KAT, h33t, Etc ~~> Small Potatas.
- OneEyedWillie
  
  LOL anyone who does not use a private tracker these days is an idiot!
  - Maxta
    
    If you say so, if somebody doesn’t live in any of those fascist countries,
    then has no reason to care about VPNs, private trackers and others.
    
    Now, it is about content, there’s only one private tracker which I’ll want to sign up.
  - cheese
    
    Nonsense, live in NL and never used a private tracker or VPN or whatsoever and I follow TV shows via torrents since torrents became available.. Dont listen to blown up media stories.
- Guest
  
  TPB is good, as is KAT, but torrentz is better. torrentz searches TPB and others and has the HASH-ID which I pop right into Tixati and go. i don’t even have to go to other websites.
  - Cheese
    
    Agree, I reaaally dont care where the torrent file or magnet link is, dont care wether TPB is up or down, Torrentz searches all those sites and even more so there is always one available.
    
    Furthermore, who still searches torrents sites for TV shows? You have http://showrss.karmorra.info/ for that, automatically adds the latest episodes of your tv shows to your utorrent program.. I discover new eps when they appear in XBMC :)
Koncopd

Is TPB down now?
- guess who
  
  seems to be, i just tried 10 or so proxys and i cannot hit it.
  - My_Shoes
    
    I hardly visit TPB, most of things I want they’re not there.
- Curious_Aint_It
  
  Hmmm… I never have a problem getting there but this morning I’m receiving:
  
  The connection has timed out
  
  The server at thepiratebay.se is taking too long to respond.
  - IHaveNoBalls
    
    Yeah its down. I’m sure it will be back soon :)
  - bobmail
    
    it’s up, but very slow loading… as if their pirate party hosts have lost some connectivity. Maybe someone has cut their service off again.
- xpmule
  
  see the story in the top right side of this page about TPB being down..
  http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-is-down-proxies-too-130106/
AndyLame

Any idea what is going on with ThePirateBay or PornoLab ?
guess who

“The Pirate Bay currently has well over a billion page views a month.”

holy shite! just think, the people who use it are, for the most part, tech savvy, blocking it is not going to work. trying to block it is the modern day equivellent of book burning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings

knowledge will always find a way to be free.
- http://www.callumpy.co.uk Callumpy
  
  Love this.
  
  I have to disagree with the tech savvy part though, the intelligence of some of the people that comment on TPB is incredibly low, they make me ill.
  - Guest321
    
    Not to mention rude as well. Some people even actually insult the uploaders.
    - guess who
      
      true. there is no call for that. i’ve seen some realy shitty things said on tpb and other sites.
    - Wal-Mart
      
      Sadly, I see insult even in private torrent site. But i agree, it’s less the jungle than TPB.
    - xpmule
      
      many of us are older and got used to having file sharing rules and the popularity of places like TPB with no rules can make things frustrating.
      I was th ebad guy when i pointed out to a skull user over at TPB when he posted an activation tool for Win 8 9200 / RTM and said in the description and in teh comments that it worked for 9200 / RTM and it did not.
      It was for the beta versions and he back tracked and said he never said it did.. and to this day its still in his description and i was not the first person to tell him any of this either.. he finished off by insulting me (poorly) and stating that 9200 and RTM is not the final version LOL
      Fucktard Mega = your typical retard noob uploader lol
      Not only that but this was the 4th or 5th activator that he posted in 24hrs and NONE of them worked and ALL of them got like -80 ratings and millions of people complaining.
      
      1 small little example of Retards with skulls posting super stupid crap.
      I have MANY of these ;)
      
      Compare this to Rutracker or Sharereactor / Shareconnector or FileList.org or or or or …..
      Places with rules..
      
      If you want random crap from possibly some of the dumbest or most deceitful people on earth then enjoy the public no rules tracker crap !
      
      Sadly most little noobs are too young to know any better.
  - guess who
    
    i know _EXACTLY_ what you mean. if they cannot follow the instructions to get somethign working, they should just leave it alone and not bother.
    
    saying that, when there are legitimate problems, the uploaders are oft very helpful, especialy the guys on demonoid when its alive and kicking.
    - Who
      
      “if they cannot follow the instructions to get somethign working, they should just leave it alone and not bother”
      
      the problem is when the up-loader gives SHIT instructions.
  - xpmule
    
    some of them deserve it !
- Vinnumb
  
  Well when the hell they gonna start posting screens and getting rid of bogus links and malware uploaders. Been fucking with extratorrent and never had a virus, malware, adware, etc. And they got screens and zero bogus uploads
dondilly

I wish TF wouldnt promote torrent sites in this manner.

The MAFIAA are far better at it with their annual wish list. They even provide links to the sites.
chris_p_bacon(R.O.L.L)

down here. tried 47 different approaches. this one works
http://lanunbay.org
- xXmicaxx
  
  works for me, as well
Guest

Looks like a nice list for the MAFIAA. Thanks TF for doing the legwork for them.
- IHaveNoBalls
  
  They already know about these websites. Think about it… You don’t have to be a genius to find them.
- Guest
  
  You’re right! Now the MAFIAA’s gonna know about the Pirate Bay!
  
  Damn you, Torrentfreak.
- Universal Soldier
  
  The funny thing is that none of these sites is banned in the home country of the MAFIAA, the United States of Arseholes.
EmirSc

Now do the top Private torrents sites of 2012
- Jjutxvrw
  
  and watch mafiaa move against them LOL
  - Who
    
    think about in regards to the open sites to. and Y they are still in operation.
  - colton
    
    The MAFIAA already knows about private trackers. You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think so.
Curious_Aint_It

TPB ‘s official Facebook post about an hour ago…

The Pirate Bay And yeah, we know the site is down now. Patience pirates, patience.
- Guest321
  
  Glad I grabbed a truckload of magnet links yesterday from the TPB. My download queue will be full for a while. It’s amazing how most of the old movies still have plenty of seeds on TPB while they have long dried up in the private sites I frequent.
  - guess who
    
    i thnk its because most people live for the current ‘hits’, they seem to forget about the wealth of brilliant films, tv & radio shows, music and books already available. in all honesty, i mostly grab old stuff i missed at the time. i don’t generaly watch that much new stuff, film wize, as hardly any appeals to me these days.
    - guess who
      
      i also, when i do dl films, more often than not, opt for asian cinema.
    - Who
      
      its because the file gets old and a newer version gets released in say HD vs the sd that’s been floating around for months. also a lot of movie just plain SUCK.
  - yghjk
    
    You’re in some pretty crappy private trackers then.
- Guest
  
  lol @ the MAFIAA’s logic
  
  “I know, we’ll force ISPs to block the Pirate Bay so nobody can visit it anymore!”
  
  *forces ISPs to block TPB, does nothing*
  
  “Shit! This isn’t working! The Pirate Bay’s still the no.1 most visited sharing site. We’ve got to do something. I know! MORE BLOCKING!”
  
  Fucking. Never. Learn.
  - Shit Blizzard
    
    almost makes you wonder how these people find the toilet, huh? or even have business for that matter
    - Who
      
      now that’s funny man a big LMFAO. thumbs up for ya
- IDIOCRACY
  
  Ping statistics for 194.71.107.81:
  
  11 99 ms 139 ms 119 ms te-1-1.sth4-core-1.srstubes.net [80.67.0.214]
  12 98 ms 99 ms 99 ms ge1.moria-cr-2.piratpartiet.net [194.68.0.158]
  13 * * * Request timed out.
  14 * * * Request timed out.
  15 * * * Request timed out.
  
  little more patience hehe
1hhh1

Demonoid’s about to return.
- Xult
  
  I hope you are right.
  Sadly missed!
- http://profiles.google.com/chris2fm chris moran
  
  Evidence?
- guess who
  
  i dled a very high quality hd rip of a film and pmed the women to thank her, she sent me an invite to a high quality bd rip tracker. incredibly helpful and friendly people on demonoid.
ThumbsUpThumbsDown

What do all of these powerful filesharing websites have in common?

Look past the skin surface and you will see the beating heart, which is the theme and substance of their business Model: a keen eye; and, a reptillian appetite for the Moral, Social, Economic, and, Political weaknesses of EVERY Monopoly.

Morally: What Human Being can publicly justify the relegation of All Human Intellectual Property to a perpetual Corporate Domain?

Socially: These Copyright Monopolies function as vast vacum cleaners; empowered to suck up wealth from the bottom of society (in the form of wage repression, and imposed higher cost); and, funneling it assymetricly to the top (in the form of unearned rents paid to a protected elite).

Economicaly: The needs of Customers are secondary to the perpetuation of unearned Rents. Customers pay the fees; accept imposed terms; and, bear systemic losses.

Politically: These Monopolies take on the attributes of Government. They seek to exercise Police Powers. They seek active control over the making of Law within the Legislatures. They want the DOJ to Prosecute their enemies; and, they want those enemies tried; convicted; and sanctioned within Courts that they’ve helped staff. They want Public Media to proclaim them Heros; and, censor their critics. They want strict Regulators fired; and, weak Regilators hired; and, when the resulting systemic crisis wraps itself around their necks, they want to be bailed out with public funds. After all, they’re way too Big to fail.

These p2p websites are God’s bionic Mice; nibbling incessantly on the weak strands of the legitimizing tapestry that Copyright Holders have taken a hundred years to weave.

One tasty strand at a time.

SNAP!!

Until a completely different Tapestry appears for a new world to see.
- chris_p_bacon(R.O.L.L)
  
  Cannabinoids strike again
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    I’ve never been able to avoid the noids, smokable, seedable or sharable..
- h33t
  
  well said! you, my friend, are a great human being with a deep understanding of our condition and a wide comprehension of the environment we create. more power to you, i wish i knew more about who you are, perhaps it is enough that i can enjoy your missives
  
  message for the new dudes: they spelled h33t wrong again, it is h33t small h small t, and her name is pronounced “heat” as in “we are bringing fire” and “prometheus unbound”. it is important to know thy name, it is you!
  
  something for everyone because i am happy for the h33t community we got a mention here today: a wise man once said that ignorance is just as structured as knowledge. let us together assault the citadel of the emperor of ignorance and bring it crashing down. i chose the path of knowledge and all my senses tell me sharing is caring for what i know is truth
  
  there is one huge hole in the MAFIAA argument: morality, the MAFIAA has no ethics. this is more than the possibility that someone is sharing a copyrighted movie, this is about people are dying because they have no access to basic patented medicines because of an obscene profit motive. this is about people are dying because of war between nations because of inequality of resources. this is about people are dying because of self-enrichment by a few ignorant of the cost to our global cultural development. this is about the money men: bankers and corporations holding our economies and societies hostage to their obscene wealth machine. the MAFIAA are an OBSCENITY an ENEMY to all humans
  
  the internet is our most powerful sharing tool for data. data represents our knowledge. my hope, i am not alone, is that we become free to share our knowledge regardless of the legacy challenges, in the words of Wittgenstein gaining wisdom consists of placing the ladder against the tree of life climbing to the topmost and wondering not how we came there, be grateful we made it. we are gonna break some stuff which seemed smart yesterday
  
  happy new year brothers and sisters. a special mention to our sister in India and the children in Newtown who paid the full price, absolutely sickening in the manifestation of evil. we can only hope we learn from our mistakes, a message the MAFIAA will never hear because of their ignorance, it is gonna be all up to us to do what we believe as individuals is right: let us share what we have and remove the barriers between us that lead to conflict
  - guess who
    
    mgm’s moto makes me laugh ‘ars gratia artis’ which means art for arts sake. the irony is to delicious not to want to dl a mgm film and tell ‘em to whistle for any money and suffer for thier ‘art.’
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    Nice post, and proud to call h33t home.
  - M.Fite
    
    Wow!!! Uplifting & inspiring, but not in a “Listen to me, listen to me!!” type of way, cause those people are either regurgitating what they once heard or yearning for you to listen for self-fulfillment or just the wrong reasons, which is why all the wrong people take it as gold and the right people know better. But also smart people listen and digest what other smart people say. The more I seek and explore, the more I am finding that the right people do exist in more of abundance than sometimes we all think. And yeah it’s scary sometimes knowing how much weight the opposition still holds, but the more I read something like this, the more I am reminded that the beautiful minds of the world possess a far louder voice then I maybe have thought during times of hopelessness. And the more that the people, not the ankle bracelets of their societies, but the people have ways to communicate freely among one another across the invisable lines, the more encouragement it gives to the ones that can make a difference to stand up and be heard, as well as to blaze a trail of their own when they know that no other way would be right. Knowing that gives me hope, as well as people like you.
- xpmule
  
  o shit someone take the weed away from this godamn hippy ! lol
http://profiles.google.com/chris2fm chris moran

Poetic – and damning
- chris_p_bacon(R.O.L.L)
  
  if that’s your real name, we’re related.
  - 7th_Guest
    
    If that’s your real name, we should have lunch.
Ray186

Yify is the shit. You have to wait awhile, but great quality with small file size.
- chris_p_bacon(R.O.L.L)
  
  not slow at all
- Zen_Bud
  
  anoXmous is better > 5.1 and 2.0 channels audio :)
  - Guest321
    
    anoXmous is indeed a bit better. YIFY is sometimes guilty of using too low bitrates trying to squeeze down the size and the quality suffers as a result. He doesn’t always get the balance right.
chris_p_bacon(R.O.L.L)

spotify stops downloads wt ther effing fuck is going on. i pays the dosh and now they take it off and no explanation. it’s times like this you are glad of a what.cd account and PB proxies dammit
syloker

h33t and 1337x rules in the torrent world!!
pro active moderators that clean the site and rarely some member got hit from fake shit or infected torrents!!
not like other sites that the user have to dl and wend got hit by fake, do the reports to admins/mods to remove the torrent…
by that time that user/member is already scammed or his passwords stolen!!

2 great sites for artists!!!!
- Guest321
  
  How will the moderators identify fake unless the users report them? Surely the mods can’t download everything and find out for themselves. Simply looking at contents of a torrent reveals nothing as the malicious files can be disguised as legit.
  - Zkqlqnif
    
    Actually a mod who knows his/her stuff can see through even files that try to look “legit” and recognize paterns.
    Won’t say anything else, but they can do more than just looking ;)
    
    Reports are just a fraction of the work. The free work they do.
  - hewhoknows
    
    there’s an active community, the central part of the community is the chat and all torrents get posted by a bot into that chat, where 24 hours a day the active staff and friends there check the torrents as they are uploaded all apps get sandboxxed and tested as well as virus scanned. . and of course not every torrent needs to be checked due to the fact users are verified and once they are trusted not every one of their uploads gets verified. it’s a very simple yet effective way to keep the site clean for all to use.
  - syloker
    
    simple!! lolz that is called moderator control pannel on h33t, meaning torrents only show on the index after a moderator check them
    
    and on 1337x the all torrents are linked to their chat, so admin, staff, mods, vip’s and friends go check them!!!
    - h33t
      
      to explain how the moderator control panel works, at h33t we moderate uploaders, we do not moderate torrents
      
      a new uploader is untrusted, when he uploads his torrents go to the moderator control panel where members of the community who have reached a certain rank can view them. the community then works with the new uploader to help them understand how to properly label their torrents. when the new uploader shows he understands and respects the torrent standards for descriptions then he is promoted to trusted and his uploads go direct to the index
      
      this very simple system of engagement with uploaders works 99% of the time to weed out evil uploaders. the index is then policed by all members and when a evil torrent is found the mods demote the uploader to untrusted putting him back into the moderator control panel where they once again engage with him to discover what happened
- guess who
  
  i’ve been using h33t for years, never checked out 1337, the name put me off and reminded me of idiots on usenet back in the day. you know, the kind of aol cretins who posted ‘me too’ & ‘please add me to your list’ all over the warez ng’s.
  - syloker
    
    well both sites are very cool!!
    you are saying 1337x reminds you pepps from warez,
    specially wend you sayd that never go there….. that’s wierd bro!!!
    - guess who
      
      i’ll check the 1337 one out, but the name does have bad connotations for me along with people posting in warez and hacker speak and all that other irritating crap they used to do when requesting stuff *shudders at memory*. i remember when arseholes on line (aol) literaly put an awfull lot of arseholes on line. how the fuck those cretins managed to get onto usenet is beyond me.
- xpmule
  
  the often over looked point is this..
  look for things you want and KNOW exist.
  other wise i don’t use torrents 99% of the time.
  i have various sites and feeds i look at for entertainment purposes
  such as nfo index / pre sites some with file locker download links.
  and if its a TV show i already know the group name and file size etc
  and i sometimes will then grab a torrent.. bigger the file the more likely i want the option to resume my download something i don’t get with free file locker account services..
  
  Sometimes a bad release infected gets passed around like wild fire and it makes no difference where you got it from.. last year i found two major releases that went EVERYWHERE. One was WinRar precarcked and the other using a variation of the same trojan bound to the setup.exe (not the Keygen) These ended up aon every source i see ..no one was exempt. why ? because people often pass the stuff on before actually testing “it”..
  
  If people are gonna go to torrent sites and browse and download random crap like bad shareware than its not gonna make much difference where you go (most of the bullshit that is released is exactly ..not worth using with or with out a keygen)
  
  By the way TPB has a VERY active staff that promptly removes bad files. Its just not obvious but they are there and they ARE watching trust me.
  Little slips through their fingers.. i can objectively say this with all honesty and respect to the staff there.
Fatality

according to me, Zeiko the guy who made the DDos attacks knows the top sites better, he attacked only the best torrent sites, the sites which had huge traffic….

and i think the rankings aren’t accurate.

http://torrentfreak.com/ddos-takes-down-the-pirate-bay-121113/
- Who
  
  no he attacked the most venerable ones. the TOP torrent sites are the china sites that are ONLY privet. when they open there doors (witch btw is hardly ever)
  they hit 30+k new subscribers in ONE day and then close there doors that same day.
thenutman69321

This list should be called top 10 sites to visit if you wanna get sued and/or arrested. I guess I’m glad idiots still use public sites, although I’ll never understand why the hell people do. Keeps the people doing the suing away from the private sites just because these public ones have such a vast user base.
- Guest
  
  because there are torrents that’s actually not dead?
  and also TPB is SSL’ed not, not to mention you can set up your client to only receive secure connections too!
- IHaveNoBalls
  
  “although I’ll never understand why the hell people do.” Well isn’t it obvious why people use public sites.. You don’t have to sign up, you don’t have to seed before you download, there’s a lot of content available and the chances of getting sued are very low… so there’s some reasons.
- xpmule
  
  ..because we shouldn’t have to hide.
- syloker
  
  bullshit!! you are tracked also in private sites!! what you whant is money from donations!! lolz!! i hate private sites!! if i go to pay for something that would be the legal source —> stores and buy whatever i whant.
  not donate to keep my ratio up!! that’s is a real criminal activity
Ador

Can someone put the link of The MAFIAA website? I couldn’t find it at google…
- Sure
  
  http://mafiaa.org/press_room/
- IHaveNoBalls
  
  mafiaa.org
  That’s not good mate if you cant find a website!
Who

that site seams almost to good to be true for what they offer. the real question is just HOW MUCH are you allowed to PUSH threw there network.
- Who
  
  privacy-mix “dot” tk/
Roswell1701

Two weeks from this coming Wednesday will mark the six-month anniversary of Demonoid going offline. I’d like to believe the rumors of Demonoid’s death are greatly exaggerated, but I think I’m about ready to throw in the towel…

I made this wallpaper and posted it to a Torrent Freak article a few months ago. I’m re-posting it for any one who would like to copy it. :)
- xpmule
  
  Never been a big fan of the site although i was given an invite years ago by a friend and used it for very few downloads/uploads etc..
  But i am sad for those of you that miss your site. But we need to remember things change.. Many of us liked Sharereactor (Simon Moon took over Gwenna’s site after she died in a car accident and after a couple years his ghouse was raided and his machines were seized)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareReactor
  Most of us went to Shareconnector after the takedown..
  And after that etc etc etc
  Life goes on.. No ONE web site will suffice.
  They have to come and go.
  But i think Demonoid users are fanatical and delusional and think the file sharing world revolved around that place and i think this is incorrect.
  - Roswell1701
    
    “But I think Demonoid users are fanatical and delusional and think the file sharing world revolved around that place and I think this is incorrect.”
    
    I never believed THE file-sharing world revolved around Demonoid. But, for the most part, my file-sharing world did. I’m sorry you didn’t care for the site. It was unique, both in content and community. :)
    - ScrewEwe2
      
      Content was always good, but the community was great.
foff

I guess the Maafiaa now has a good hit list. Come on folks like you think they are so dense they did not have this already. If if was legally easy to take these sites down they would have done so already. This does not mean they won’t keep trying. Money speaks volumes and when the right person accepts the bribes the black hawks and special forces will sweep in and grab those nasty gun toting terrorist servers!

On another subject the reporting about Demonoid has been very very sketchy. At one point arrests were rumored but it this were true then trials or some court actions would have taken place by now. So this seems unlikely to me. I think it is a combination of factors, money and a safe place to run the tracker being the major issues. Finding a safe country with the right infrastructure to hos the tracker is not easy. I don’t understand networks well enough to know why a ddos attack is so hard to recover from as it seems a few changes and a few blocks should take care of the problem but if it were that easy then there would be no point in such an attack.

Finally you have to hand it to TPB after all any site that can handle a billion hits a day has to be pretty good. This site is obviously very hardened against a ddos attack. Those running this site would have very valuable advice on how to run a high traffic site. Rather they just seek to tear it down it’s infrastructure and coding ought to be studied and admired. Those running this site ought to be able to make scads of money running any big site.
- guess who
  
  maybe we should get the admins of our favourate sites to email tpb and ask for advice and maybe use thier code. i like your thinking.
Past Tense

Which of these sites are the best in terms of value of comments, ratings…
- syloker
  
  who cares bulshit reputation sites!! lolz that is facebook!!
  - guess who
    
    i feel dirty, i just got a 1337 account to check it out.
  - Past Tense
    
    I for one. I don’t like to waste my time downloading fake torrents. Apparently sylocker (and the two people who liked his commment) do. I liked BTJunkie in this regard for comments and ratings about torrents.
    - syloker
      
      nosence BTJunkie was well know by the fakes and scams!! lolz as now is KAT!! well rat uploaders aslways like non pro-active moderation sites!!
Alien8

Open trackers SUCK!

TL forever!! <3
- sdfgbhnm
  
  LOL you’re in TL. You’ll learn about actual good trackers soon.
- syloker
  
  private trackers sucks more!!! they are getting slow every year!! lolz seen alot of releases on private sites taken from public and less from private to public!!
  
  and no ratio!! we donate only if we whant not cuz we are oblied to do it!!! as a fileshare i whant to share!! if i whant to pay i go to the store!!!
guess who

@Who

true enough. i dled a game a while back, the guy had done a great job of compressing it, only he’d left no instructions on how to uncompress the audio &c, which was compounded by a lack of bat’s to automate it. luckily the tools were there and i did it myself. anyone who wasn’t technical would have been totaly fucked.
- Who
  
  ya been there many times and ether spend hrs trying to figure it out or go find another if its way to mucked up.
Ha

None of these are “most popular” for serious torrenters. I admit using TPB very very rarely (like 4 times per year maybe), when there is no other options (rarely happens) for some odd stuff I want to watch asap, but usually… there is other options, far much better ones.

I hope maffia will leave REAL sites alone… and keep fight these… wtf… public :D sites…
- Guest456
  
  TPB is bigger than all private sites together.
guess who

20 year late and the kiddies are still doing it. after checking out 1337:

2. Using 1337 “leet” speak in your posts. Keep it to a minimum please as it can become annoying and some find it difficult to read. For example, ” µ$1||9 £337 |{ 1|| ¥0µ® p0$7. 7|-|1$ 1$ (4££3Ð £337.(0|/| 4||Ð |/|0®3 p0//3® 70 ¥4 1? ¥0µ //4||4 µ$3 17 ßµ7 p£34$3 Ð0||?7 Ð0 4|| 3||71®3 p0$7 1|| £337. 17 (4|| 937 4||||0¥1||9, 3((14£¥ 1? //|-|47 ¥0µ 4®3 7¥p1||9 1$ (0|/|p0$3Ð 0? 95% £337.”

that shit wasn’t cool 20 years ago and its not cool now. fucking children, they should not be allowed on line.
LarsUlrich

My favorite torrent site will always be the suprnova back in 2002-2003.
- xpmule
  
  yeah RIP
  i only went there close to when they closed down (i was late to the party)
  Historical web site for sue though.
Magmagan_x

We miss you, Demonoid.
Syborg

Public trackers are lame..
Asashii

yeah more heavy traffic for these site that not everyone should know about, the first rule of fight club is the most im;ortant ,TARDS!!!
guest

Does anybody know any reliable information on glowgaze.com
Gizas

Make a top with the private tracker, who gives a flying fuck about the public ones?
Forsaken

Nice to see my favorite site NOT being mentioned. Keep it hidden!!
That’s Incomplete

There is a tracker which is not listed here and it would fall in the 6th position,
I suppose it is because it’s not a tracker full of Hollywood movies.
This list is biased, that’s a shame, TF.
- Guest
  
  which is??!
  list it yourself here! in the comment section ya dingus!
- Nyo
  
  http://www.nyaa.eu/
  Alexa: 794
  http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/nyaa.eu
  
  Torrent site, it has its own tracker, its in English
  and it’s not dedicated to Hollywood stuff.
  That must be the reason to not be here.
  - dufus
    
    “Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2013? “
  - CoolerThanYOu
    
    Ummm have you been there lately, its barely in english. Most of all the content is foreign. Go back to asia you dumb anime loser
    - MM’s
      
      FKN RASISTIC IDIOT!!!
    - Ryoji
      
      wow, your an asshole. Seriously
- Nyo
  
  I forgot to add it’s public.
Micro735

Это не рейтинг а ересь!!!
Jon

As far as I am concerned, http://torrentcrazy.com/ is the best of all of the above. I always get whatever I need from them.
BioChronic

thanks for the new list TF! i’d like to give an honorable mention to my favorite site i’ve been using for several years too:
http://www.Seedpeer.me
gamer

Yo uso flixshare.org, thepiratebay.se y kat.ph ^^
Tqzing

I love the TPB too, but busted 2 times in 3 month now. giving it a rest for a while…
Pego230378

dragon torrents is back open for sign ups here

http://thephoenix.name

the dragon was slayed and the phoenix rises from the ashes
rocket

kickasstorrents is gone from .ph
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pinoy

Guys, I am getting an error using kickasstorrents…i’m used to this site already and have been using this for years. when I’m blocked,i dunno what to do coz i dnt like other sites,but I dnt have a choice but to use them for now…is there any work around to fix this? this is the error I am getting…pls help!

“Access to the webpage was denied
You are not authorized to access the webpage at http://kat.ph/
. You may need to sign in.
HTTP Error 403 (Forbidden): The server refused to fulfill the request.”
makhan lal

Well ! Kickasstorrents is best, soon it will become most visited torrents web site :)
wombleranger

public hd rocks for best quality !!!!
noob

i am very new, can someone tell me if VPN service is worth the money?
godnr

what.cd is the worst
http://www.facebook.com/philip.crivea Philip Crivea

OneEyedWillie said it best!
johnallen

looking for software – EDA – electronics software – need to improve my skills to find a job
love piratbay

long live piratbay
DEMON

Najlepsza strona oferująca torrenty to http://www.darmowe-torrenty.pl

Na tym serwisie znajdują się tylko darmowe torrenty
w@s

I would add 1337x & H33T before ET and KAT on NO#1!TPBay is good but..
- w@s
  
  btw bitsnoop,torrentz are search engines & isohut is full like ‘search’ engines..full of fakes! go to TRUSTED PUBLIC SITES!
iam

where can i have torrents for ebooks? i cant find my book to the one listed above.. please3x. thanks
ricky1212.fr

http://ricky1212.fr nouveau !! links Torrent
khronik

i live in india and i don’t have any private tracker or vpn. and, i’ve never heard of anyone getting prosecuted for downloading torrents. the only thing they care about are pirated dvds.
Tom smith

torrentcafe.com foreva
bill

kick ass torrentss is shut down
http://www.facebook.com/MementoNeli Zenel Shabani

Torrenthub.eu is also one but I dont know if it still works
Top 4 Torente

Cele Mai Tarii Sunt:
1.Extreme-Share
2.Filelist
3.Xtreme-Zone
4.Kiss-Zone
Guest

https://www.phantompeer.com
That’s all I will say..
John Faulkner

Numbers 1,2,and 20 are blocked now in the UK as that they open using a new name but were shut down by BT.
storm

bring back the one the only demonoidddddddddddddddddddddddddd
ronnierichardson

Hi i used pirate bay all the time and now BT have blocked it as well as kickass is there anyway i can still access them?
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1628946049 Marline King

What is the best torrent for books???
name

pirate bay is closed down
lilblacksambo

hey is there any way I can get a invite to the café ive been waiting a long time to find a good torrent site ive been in a rut since demonoid has been down if you don’t mind if so that’s cool but heres my email ronin4six@gmail.com
http://www.geekandblogger.com/ Pavan Somu

PirateBay is my favorite site
Torrentlover

Why is not YIFY on this list??????????
http://technicpage.blogsot.com/ krishna chippa

Great info…Utorrent Tip:
Control uTorrent App Remotely From Anywhere
Read:http://www.tipsdrive.com/2012/10/control-utorrent-app-remotely-from-anywhere.html
Miami Sunset

TPB is the only site in the top 100, something previously done by Mininova. Mininova currently is around 13,500.
ashain04

email me at ashain04@gmail for invite to cartoon-bits.com
ALI

F**K U
pdb

recommended site for music from last century?
pdb

the gate_keeper was nice to me…….I now hold a nice pack of private sites but demonoid holds a sentimental spot
http://www.facebook.com/people/Henry-Baker/1038331273 Henry Baker

Pirate Bay sucks! It blasts you with obnoxious popup ads on shit in which absolutely no one is interested.

Kickass Torrents kicks ass!
Jesse

any suggestions for torrent sites with e-books?
Rent Beltoprent.com

i love torrents. The story of TPB is sad((
http://twitter.com/markelhum Elhum

great list, pirate bay gets the maximum share of traffic, Pirate bay is better

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