Top 10 Torrent Sites Soon Without Mininova
Written by Ernesto on February 27, 2010For the first time in five years Mininova is about to disappear from the top 10 of most visited torrent sites. This exit is due to a traffic drop that resulted from the removal of most of the site’s torrents following a lost court battle. Newcomer KickassTorrents is still gaining momentum and has already surpassed Mininova in terms of traffic.
Compared to a year ago the BitTorrent landscape has changed significantly. The Pirate Bay decided to shut down its tracker last fall and a few weeks later Mininova partly shut down its website. However, with the fall of Mininova many new torrent sites emerged, with KickassTorrents being the most successful one.
It almost seems like history is repeating itself. Early 2005, just a few weeks after that period’s leading torrent site, Suprnova.org, closed its doors, Mininova was founded. In the years that followed the site grew out to become the most visited torrent site. That growth was stunted in November 2009, when a negative verdict in a court battle against the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN forced the operators of the site to remove over a million torrents.
As expected Mininova’s decision resulted in a disastrous drop in traffic, as its users spread out over other torrent sites including some promising newcomers. Today, three months after Mininova’s downfall, the site is about to disappear from the top 10 list of most visited torrent sites. The Pirate Bay is currently leading the list closely followed by the meta-search engine Torrentz and isoHunt. KickassTorrents is currently in 9th place, which is a remarkable achievement consdering the site is only a few months old.
Below you’ll find a list of the 10 most-visited torrent sites as of today. Only public and English language sites are included. The list is based on traffic rank reports from Compete, Alexa and SiteReport’s World Rank. The number of daily visitors and page views are estimates.
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#1 THEPIRATEBAY.ORG
- Daily Visitors: 4,600,136
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#2 TORRENTZ.COM
- Daily Visitors: 2,756,280
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#3 ISOHUNT.COM
- Daily Visitors: 2,285,811
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#4 BTJUNKIE.ORG
- Daily Visitors: 1,363,883
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#5 TORRENTREACTOR.NET
- Daily Visitors: 919,552
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#6 DEMONOID.COM
- Daily Visitors: 728,513
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#7 TORRENTDOWNLOADS.NET
- Daily Visitors: 686,219
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#8 MONOVA.ORG
- Daily Visitors: 670,536
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#9 KICKASSTORRENTS.COM
- Daily Visitors: 642,498
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#10 MININOVA.ORG
- Daily Visitors: 632,519
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72 Responses
“Only public and English language sites are included.”
When did Demonoid become public? It’s registration is by invite only, so surely it’s a private tracker and has no place on that list.
When you buy movies and music the money is used to shut down torrent sites. Don’t buy pls.
@2
That is one of the most idiotic things I’ve ever read. Sure, most of us on here are file sharers, but if nobody pays films then nobody will make them. Very little of the money actually goes into fighting file sharers.
Download stuff to your hearts content and don’t pay for the rubish, but pay for the stuff you like, otherwise it will stop getting made.
It all needs to stop being made. Any money you give to Hollywood will be used against you.
@1 demonoid is public now,no invitations needed
@3
Exactly. Realize how awesome it is that you aren’t being extorted for payment before personally evaluating content. However, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t support the things you like. If you don’t, just remember, they might stop making it.
Why did demonoid.com go public that is stupid move on their part!
@3
I partly agree with #2. Not buying from content companies that we find morally questionable is our _duty_ as consumers — we’re boycotting them for treating their customers like shite.
That’s not to say we shouldn’t give anything back, but we should be careful who we give our money to. This is war, and we don’t want to give our guns to the enemy.
However, it must be noted that while demonoid.com may be a public indexing website, tracker.demonoid.com is a PRIVATE tracker, not a public one.
Demonoid has also decided to block DHT in all demonoid torrents – so next time demonoid.com goes down (and it will), all demonoid torrents will die almost immediately.
The only reason demonoid torrents continued to function during the downtime was because of DHT.
Do not use demonoid – demonoid does NOT care about the longevity of your torrents.
(the tracker is inferno.demonoid.com, but whatever)
What’s this bullshit about demonoid registrations being open anyway?
http://www.demonoid.com/register.php
@ YES registrations are close at demonoid, but browse the site and find a torrent, click download torrent and you have it. Like any other public torrent site? This is very stupid move..!!
Uh.. no.. go to demonoid.com right this moment.. *cough*
retards
SOME torrents are available to non-registered visitors, others are not, retards
@ stupid
Your name is apt. Anyone can download a torrent using a demonoid announce, they do not have to be a member. It is therefor a public tracker. If it were private, only registered members would be able to download.
Second, demonoid cannot disable DHT on their torrents without enforcing the private flag. It would be extremely stupid to enforce the private flag while keeping their site publicly accessible. It makes zero sense. People who disable DHT on public torrents are morons.
In Russa, The Torrent disables your DHT and you can no longer breathe, it is is a sad site to see, my aunt died this way.
I’m glad to see that my favourite meta search engine still doesn’t make it into the list. Good, the more discreet the better.
@ #1
Demonoid is not a private tracker. They are a public tracker. There site may be invite only but there tracker is public. So yes they do belong on that list.
Demonoid.com is simi-private tracker users can only older than a few days, or they you must register. To download older stuff..
Sad, that Mininova is only 10th. But TPB and Demonoid rulez! )
Demonoid.com is simi-private tracker users can only download torrents older than a few days, or they you must register.
Sorry for double post my post above is messed up, and torrent freak doesn’t have option to delete a post if you mess up.
to everyone who says that demonoid is a public tracker, its not. They only let you download new torrents and only 5 max. You must be a member.
http://i493.photobucket.com/albums/rr295/bbtgp/demo.jpg
is not difficult to be a big site when it is full of dupes, fakes and spam
none of those sites have verified torrents like http://www.h33t.com where the community checks all uploads before they appear on the index
Loads and loads of porn, maybe you should consider changing the name to ASSTorrents instead? You’ll get more views for sure :)
except TPB, Demonoid and the now “legal” Mininova, all others are just indexers flooded with crap
Torrentz gives you “verified” though
Btw: Demonoid’s tracker is public.
Demonoid’s site is semi-private.
You can download stuff from them but only torrents that are a few days old and also limited (5 a week I think) To download unlimited, yeah you must be a member
Hope this helps :)
@15
“People who disable DHT on public torrents are morons.”
I know right? Though, not everyone can be technically literate.
19 Feb 27, 2010 at 19:47 by clearify
Demonoid.com is simi-private tracker users can only older than a few days, or they you must register. To download older stuff..
On the right track. As a longtime member at demonoid…yes if you are not a member you can download…3 new torrents in a 7 day period…
You can access torrents up to I believe it is 10 days old, but again you have a weekly limit of 3.
This has been like this since before I managed to get on, which was in july 2006.
Everyone should use dht b/c it helps the files survive. There has been so many times a tracker was down/not in use anymore but dht keeps the file going. If not, files would die b/c of not knowing where to redirect to or map to. Decentralized is way to go, and can use a tracker too but always dht in case tracker goes down. Oh yeah I use emule too and its decentralized with kad and servers similar to trackers. dht is way to go
So… compelling evidence that the main usage of these indexers is to enable copyright infringment then. No copyrighted material on Mininova, no one visits, traffic increases at sites where the copyrighted material is shared.
Should make the argument in court that indexers have other uses than to share copyrighted material (or 99.9% of material is copyrighted) that much harder to make.
Thanks TF, you’ve helped the cause to bring down these crooks that making large profits from advertising on pages that contain links to copyrighted material – BT links, Usenet links and pay to leech links in some cases such as KickAss Torrents.
“It is therefor a public tracker.”
Do you know what a tracker is?
“tracker” does not mean “website”.
The demonoid torrent index WEBSITE that hosts “.torrent” files is public.
The demonoid torrent TRACKER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker) which your torrent client connects to is NOT public.
For torrents to be tracked by the tracker, they must be submitted via the demonoid website – making it NOT public.
openbittorrent.com is a PUBLIC tracker, because it automatically tracks any torrents that scrape it.
“People who disable DHT on public torrents are morons.”
Agreed, demonoid admins are morons for disabling DHT.
“Everyone should use dht b/c it helps the files survive.”
Agreed, therefore, no-one should use demonoid, because demonoid disables DHT, and next time demonoid goes down, it will take ALL demonoid torrents down with it.
MiniNova – dropping as everyone uses legit torrents.
Oh wait
Demonoid allows you to download 5 torrents per week as guest, no registration required. Sometimes they don’t allow and sometimes they do, that’s all.
BTW, Mininova should be sold before it’s worth nothing.
@stupid #28
(perfect choice of name..)
“The demonoid torrent TRACKER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker) which your torrent client connects to is NOT public.
For torrents to be tracked by the tracker, they must be submitted via the demonoid website – making it NOT public.”
The tracker is public, if it wasn’t, a passkey would be needed or you’d get a message in your torrent clientlike: “failure, unregistered torrent pass” or “register first” or “register and re-download torrent from..” blabla
And really? If you want to upload a torrent to TPB, you have to use TPB site
(like when TPB tracker was still on, did it make it private? No.
To upload on Dmd, you have to use the Dmd site
Now go and read carefully the Wiki Link you posted yourself.
“Agreed, therefore, no-one should use demonoid, because demonoid disables DHT, and next time demonoid goes down, it will take ALL demonoid torrents down with it.”
How clueless can you get?
It’s how the uploader decides to create the torrent in the first place. Enable Dht or not.
If he/she enables it, then the torrent lives even without the tracker. Which is what happened to a sh*tload of Dmd torrents, when Dmd was down in 2007. All with Dht lived, all without didn’t. Those without, became “alive” when the tracker was back on.
Too much info for you?
LMAO :D
um, forgot one. it lives with different url. can’t post, but content => demonoid.
http://rutracker.org/forum/index.php
why still use any of the public trackers nowadays when there are plenty of private trackers with faster speeds and a much much better community aspect
@ #1, Darkstar:
You got it right!
At least someone must be happy about MiniNova’s downfall, and that’s the MAFIAA! One down, one 999,999 to go.
My first choice when searching for torrents is Goggle. I think it should be first on the list ;-p
I like isoHunt, because of that cool peer comments feature. I have been having trouble with The Pirate Bay lately; pages take forever to load and sometimes they don’t! I guess it’s because of the heavy traffic it pulls. Bitjunkie is also one of my favorites.
Actually I just checked demonoind at 1:30 pm pacific time. It now says: ["User registration
Registrations are closed. If you have an invitation code, click here."]
And actually I grabbed a torrent from demonoid and DHT is NOT disabled on the torrent. So I don’t know where you get the idea they don’t use it anymore.
And don’t tell me it’s only old torrents that still have DHT because the torrent I grabbed from demonoid was uploaded January 20, 2010
@31 lol
I couldn’t agree more. I prefer to only download torrents with DHT enabled.
["It’s how the uploader decides to create the torrent in the first place. Enable Dht or not."]
Exactly. The uploader of a torrent is who decides whether or not DHT is enabled.
@23 loiuse
["none of those sites have verified torrents like http://www.h33t.com where the community checks all uploads before they appear on the index"]
I’m getting a little sick and tired of that site being advertised here in the comments. I absolutely despise the layout of that site. Also, there have been many torrents I’ve downloaded from ISOHunt and other sites that have the H33T tracker. The problem? Every single torrent with that tracker has DHT disabled. Please stop posting that shitty site in your comments.
Gee, what happened to Files24? I thought that was supposed to the great new BT search site. Now you can’t even connect to it…
So who’s number 11, the new up and comer?
Hey Ernesto, wouldn’t this be a perfect premise for a story about all the great legal media you can obtain from Mininova instead?
You know, after all that constant BS about how BT isn’t just for illegal content and how the distribution system itself needs to be preserved and adopted by media companies.
Instead, when Mininova’s popularity slips, instead you’re here telling everyone where’s a better place to get your pirated media.
It kind of gives away the charade.
Maybe it would help to write down these dishonest memes on cue cards or something. Perhaps you write em on your palm like Palin so you don’t forget.
Ever since Mininova died, I’ve been using TorrentFly (an aggregator). This way I get the best of all the indexers :)
man there are a lot of assholes out there that don’t understand what a private tracker is!! lol Join a real private tracker and you can tell the difference. I love the ‘noid, but trust me it’s not a private tracker
omfg, I want to slap all you “check how mininova dried up. that proves bittorrent is all about the illegal and none of you people will ever pay for digital content even if it was available.”
You take a 100% legal torrent site. If you remove almost all it’s content, the traffic will move somewhere else. It doesn’t matter what the subject matter is, if the content is gone, the traffic is gone. That doesn’t PROVE anything except the limit on your mental capacity.
“You take a 100% legal torrent site. If you remove almost all it’s content, the traffic will move somewhere else.”
Er…. you mean everyone would go somewhere like Mininova where all this 100% legal content can now be found ? Way to get that 100% ass backwards. LOL
“That doesn’t PROVE anything except the limit on your mental capacity.”
Touche.
Mininova is not closed because ads make them money and the more traffic the more money they make. so even if all the torrent are deleted they still live off pretty well compared to most of us. Nothing is free, it maybe free for us to download torrent but it cost the site money and they have to make money to motivate them to keep it up and running. money is not going away soon, 99 percent of us would be pretty pleased if we won the lottery and don’t have to work ever again.
@ 1 go and have a look….
At this point I don’t understand why Mininova even has *one* visitor.
The US government is steadily drawing up plans for increasingly stringent copyright enforcement and you can count on them also pressuring other countries do so in addition to stepping up and take down sites that violate copyright. Sites like these wont last long in the new age of legal attention towards copyright. Sites can no longer maintain an ignorant policy of “movies are not copyrighted until the studio sends us a DMCA takedown request.”
Don’t write of Mininova yet,I hear that it will return in a couple of months
A couple of you are ridiculous. The ones that are excited that this is “proof” we are all immoral thieves. I will now ask you a few questions, while making a couple points of my own.
1. Are you retarded?
2. How retarded can you possibly be?
3. Do you even know why some of us torrent?
4. I choose to illegally download my music. Know why? I can’t afford $2500, the number of songs I own (roughly). What I can afford is to download 7 Modest Mouse albums for free, and then pay sixty dollars for their concert, which I never would have went to if I hadn’t downloaded their music. They would have gotten pennies for those album sales, and I wouldn’t have been able to afford the concert.
5. Do you know how many songs I download and then delete? The numbers must be in the hundreds by now. I downloaded a song, gave it a test run, and deleted it because it blew. Which, to me, seems like the radio, except I can change the song and never listen to the damn thing again when it sucks. Basically, I would have paid for 100′s of dollars worth of music and then got rid of it. Oh wait, I wouldn’t have. Because I couldn’t have afforded it.
6. Movies? Hell yeah I download movies. Want to know how many movies I’ve downloaded? Over 200. Want to know how many I’ve kept? Less than 20. Want to know which ones I kept? The ones I owned on VHS, but couldn’t use when my player broke. Or my copy of Hot Fuzz, which I managed to lose.
7. You seem to think that just because I download, I must think I deserve everything for free. No. what I do believe is that I should not have to pay for the same thing twice, ever. I bought it, it’s mine. End of discussion. And they claim that I’m not buying the physical product. Meaning I bought, literally, the rights to own the movie/song. Meaning I can download that whenever the hell I want. They took the content I needed off of mininova, so guess what? I stopped using it. It does me no goddamn good to use a site that doesn’t have what I need. They took a fortress from those of us who are fighting copyright law, so we moved to another fortress.
Conclusion drawn from arguments:
You’re goddamn retarded.
@2 @3 @4: @1 is best. @34 @14 – if @6 was $9 then @22 would be @50 and @26 & @27 would be gay and married in some places.
Th@tt’s all from @51.
TPB FTW!!
@ 50 Tyler
Nice comment man, couldn’t have said it better myself… :0)
@ brainwashed trolls – a terminal disease is lying dormant in you, can’t wait till you’re diagnosed.
the reason i “pirate” is 1TB of underground metal/rock music, most of which can’t be found in any store.
@guy suggesting rutracker to be added to the list
If that site is in english language i’ll eat my own ass
Yes!! Kickasstorrents has been awesome for me!! Just the site I’ve been wanting, till it gets sued :( lol
I wonder how the income flow is for mininova now. Are they rich yet? Who actually uses mininova? What is it used for?
They’d be better off just peddling DRM infested WMA and WMV files and ring tones. It’s now just an empty shell after the RIAA/MPAA ripped out its innards and left it to dry out and blow away.
Anyways, I’m wasting precious time typing this while my file sharing and file searching need tending to.
Speaking of empty shell, I decided to be a “legit” consumer and went to my local video rental shop to rent a movie. Turns out I’d already seen everything that is worth seeing. About 99% of the rest are pure crap. Perhaps this is the problem with the MPAA; they don’t put out any more media that is even worth paying for.
But hey they made a bundle off of Avatar, which I probably won’t bother ever paying for thanks to Mr. Cameron telling a fan to fuck off.
Stupid MPAA.
[quote]Don’t write of Mininova yet,I hear that it will return in a couple of months[/quote]
If the current Mininova owners want to make some money after most traffic has died it would be logical for them to sell the domain (goodwill!) and let the new owner host the site somewhere outside of EU/US territory like the Ukrain.
@51:
Shut up and share the joint already!
Bloody Hell…must we have this argument about Demonoid being public or private every single year???!!! Same damn argument every year! Stop your bitching already!
I think it wouldn’t be called “demonoid” if it wasn’t causing arguments.
I see many people are discussing the moral side of downloading illegal torrents. I’ll give you a suggestion: consider the logical aspect.
I can buy something for 30 dollars, or I can get exactly the same thing for free without any risk of getting caught (at least where I live).
You don’t need to be a genius to know that, if we take the morality out of the equation, anyone will choose the second option. And that’s the reason why most people (including me) download illegal torrents: they think logically, not morally.
Where http://rutracker.org ?
Or you are so stupid that you can not learn 10 words in Russian?
Or AC-DC and Ozzy on Russian tracker sing in Russian?
- Daily Visitors: 1,109,483
- Pageviews: 17,264,716 (15 per visitor)
- Alexa Rank: #269
Demonoid.com is simi-private Site
3 Free downloads for NON-Users
per-week per-your-IP
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Demonoid.com is simi-private Site
3 Free downloads for NON-Users
per-week per-your-IP
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YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THIS !!!!
YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THIS !!!!
YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THIS !!!!
YOU GUYS DONT KNOW THIS !!!!
I haven’t seen reasoned mind for weeks now. Where’s that amusing person?
hey Tyler, can I erect an alter to you and worship your intellect? Can I? Please? I wanna hang out, I want to treat you like a god, I want to torrent with YOU tyler, will that be OK? Will your mom let you out past 8pm so we can hang out together, please? We can even swap porno and think of each other whilst we watch it.
LOL! Retard!
@62 (Shellscene) good point, son. There IS no moral aspect in stealing another man’s creation. The banking and housing industries acted on the same premise until recently – everything driven by logic (aquisition) and not having any ethical stand point inform their actions. And, well look what happened there.
This is the reason why Governments and Copyright agencies are attracting so much bile from you children right now – they’re just acting within their rights and trying to protect what is theirs. Kids, we don’t live in a utopia, and everyman deserves to get a reward from their endevours. It makes no difference whether it’s a successful artist or a struggling one – the principle’s the same.
The way I see it, you’ve been given a toy, you aren’t playing right, and now you’re getting punished. At least stand up and take it like men.
Right now, all i can see are a bunch of ‘anon’ wussies who are just feeling the pinch because their parents have been forced to come in and hand out some bruised asses.
I think it has more to do with the percieved “cheapness” of music/movies/software (as there are so many of ´em most people don´t really grasp their value) and the lack of direct harm (me downloading a copy doesn´t mean that the author has lost his/her copy or couldn´t sell the product any more) than “morality”. Combine that with the natural tendency to view intellectual property the same way as physical property (when you buy something then you own it, not “rent” it´s usage rights) and you, most likely, will come to the same conclusion most pirates who´ve thought about it have, that by pirating a product the only thing you´ve caused to the author is the *possibility* of less money.
The actions of authors´s representatives (who keep on comparing that possibility to the loss physical product, and openly say that the money recovered from fighting piracy ain ´t going to the authors but rather to fund the fighting) ain´t helping.
I’m broke as hell. If I have 10 or 20 bucks, I’m going to go get drunk, not buy some overpriced CD or DVD.
hmm. h33t is not in top 10 ? for me h33t is nr 1 . i don’t access isohunt and mininova. too much viruses . h33t, demonoid, torrentz, the pirate bay .
just wanted to say, after the heart breaking mininova loss, i was reduced to piratebay and isohunt… not happy but hey, who are we to complain about free content… but what a nightmare, flooded with ads, bad files, unfiltered and mislabeled everything, drove me nuts
until i found KAT, I was having a miserable time dealing with so much just to nab a track, show, etc. all set to give up
you guys have the best site going, real clean, i find what i want, lots of seeders, just like mininova once was, in and out
im sure, in time, you guys are gonna be regarded as the premier in the traffic standings.
THANK YOU FOR BUILDING KICKASS!!!! IT REALLY DOES!!!!
I migrated from Mininova to kickasstorrents.com. Great public site with pretty usability.
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