Top 15 Torrent Sites of 2005

Written by Ernesto on December 24, 2005 

2005 is almost over. Time for a list of the best torrent sites out there. Five categories, fifteen sites.

Oldies

01. Torrentspy.com

Great torrent site with a lot of torrents. At the moment Torrentspy is the biggest torrent site on the web.

02. Demonoid.com

Great community based site. The biggest tracker out there after mongo56 died.

03. ThePiratebay.org

These swedish Pirates did a total redesign. Now internationally oriented and still handling legal threats with a great sense of humor

04. Torrentreactor.net

Hangin in there

05. Torrentbox.com

Great site, does the trick. Merged with isohunt earlier this year

Newcomers

01. Mininova.org

The biggest nova out there. Within a year mininova grew out to be one of the most popular torrent sites.

02. Seedler.org

One of the best newcomers

03. Newnova.org

The youngest site in the list. Based on the old suprnova code. Retro!

04. Snarf-it.org

Built from the ashes of the suprnova (forums).

Legal stuff

01. Bt.etree.org

Been around for a long time. Bringing you live concert recordings of trade friendly artists

02. PublicDomainTorrents.com

A lot of classic movies, without copyright

03. Freedocumentaries.org

Free documentaries

Torrent Links

01. Torrent.hackz.nl

One of the biggest torrent link sites out there

02. Btsites.tk

A classic, btsites has always been the biggest torrent link site out there. Even the site design is classic.

Search engine

01. Isohunt.com

The first and the best torrent search engine out there. Always improving

Previously: MPAA about BitTorrent

Next: New look for Torrentz.com

27 Responses

1 Dec 25, 2005 at 18:41 by ahnonamis

I personally like http://www.torrentz.com for searching for torrents.

2 Dec 29, 2005 at 14:10 by Nick

I did a search on Isohunt yesterday & ended up with malaware called “mediagateway.exe” installed on my pc so Isohunt look pretty dodgy to me.

3 Dec 29, 2005 at 14:13 by Ernesto

never heard about that before, are you sure Isohunt caused it?

4 Dec 30, 2005 at 00:36 by kevin at home

yep i must say that torrent spy is good but i prefer dididave. i can even get all the new albums released that week in one dvd download. f~~~ing brill

5 Dec 30, 2005 at 10:21 by Nick

The only other site i visited was the bbc who i have as my homepage. They’ve got these horrendous pop ups on Isohunt that as soon as you try & turn them off start popping stuff up everywhere, it was only after this happened that i noticed my pc was slower, web speeds were slower & i couldn’t turn off the pc, after a check i found that a program called “mediagateway.exe” had installed itself on my pc which as far as i can see could only have come from Isohunt who i now avoid like the plague. It is a shame as otherwise it is a good search site.

6 Jan 07, 2006 at 19:33 by Baldy

FYI… ISOhunt is just a scrape directory NOT a torrent search engine, all the files they host locally, or hotlink to they dont send traffic to the source which a search engine should.

7 Jan 07, 2006 at 20:48 by Ernesto

There are multiple ways to define a search engine. I’m not that strict

8 Apr 15, 2006 at 10:34 by BomBa

Nick what ya talkin about man.
I’m using isohunt for a long time now
and never got any problem with it.
So just stop visiting those porn sites
because that’s probably where you got it from isohunt is a great site and never installed any shit on my computer.

Cheers,

9 Apr 21, 2006 at 04:27 by ramen

yo guys PIRETS r0k5

go and check out at http://thepiratebay.org
http://www.mininova.org
look no further…………..

10 May 09, 2006 at 08:18 by adi brock

if find these are the quickest normally go on here b4 vcdquality get reviews of them

http://www.filelist.org
http://www.revolutiontt.org
http://araditracker.com

11 Jul 14, 2006 at 20:19 by alex

I really like http://www.torrentlocomotive.com

12 Aug 09, 2006 at 15:13 by Vlad

there’s a pussytorrent – something or rather site that’s just porn – and it’s meant to be a awesome – I cant find it anymore :(

13 Dec 26, 2006 at 05:49 by Matt

ISOhunt does not send malware or any kind of spyware to your computer.. Ive been going to it for years and nothing bad has happened to my computer. Do you click on the advertizements in ISOhunt? That will cause malware and a complete lock-up if you get deeper into it. You have to be aware of what your doing.. Only use the search engine, nothing else.

14 Feb 12, 2007 at 22:59 by Zack

http://www.empornium.us for the win!

15 Feb 20, 2007 at 12:25 by aris

torrentscan has all the good torrent engines and downloaders! one stop for all needs.

16 Mar 07, 2007 at 11:42 by paGe

torrentview has all the torrent from all the major search engines, plus, it find it like google.
http://www.torrentview.com

17 Mar 10, 2007 at 02:15 by pete

how can i download a software to build a website with my students!!!

waiting for your response genius

thanxs pete

18 Apr 17, 2007 at 13:37 by David

Hi.

This site is a meta-search engine for torrent files. It searchs on top sites and show results organized by tabs with ajax. It´s very useful.

http://www.torrenttab.com

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23 Jun 28, 2007 at 04:12 by Ballz Johnson

I’ve used Isohunt for four years and have never gotten any malware from it. if you honestly believe that isohunt is what caused that malware to end up on your drive then you sir need to give up your bus pass for the short bus because even they know it’s not possible.

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25 Dec 17, 2007 at 18:36 by Coco

isohunt caused malware, What an idiot.
isohunt is a search engine, it’s you who download all that crap and get yourself malwared init though?

26 Feb 01, 2008 at 16:38 by best 3 torrent sites

best 3 torrent sites are Araditracker.com

ilovetorrents.com

bitmetv.org

i have been downloading for 4 years

27 May 10, 2008 at 18:42 by numberone

This is a good and new one – http://faplife.net

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