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Top 15 Torrent Sites of 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

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  • ahnonamis

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

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  • 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.

  • Ernesto

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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Ernesto

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

  • 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,

  • ramen

    yo guys PIRETS r0k5

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

  • 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

  • alex
  • 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 :(

  • 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.

  • Zack
  • aris

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

  • paGe

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

  • pete

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

    waiting for your response genius

    thanxs pete

  • 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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    Site XXX, good speed, scene torrents, PRE time http://www.pornfiles.pl

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  • 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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  • 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?

  • best 3 torrent sites

    best 3 torrent sites are Araditracker.com

    ilovetorrents.com

    bitmetv.org

    i have been downloading for 4 years

  • numberone

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

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