Comments on: Torrent’Em, a Flashy BitTorrent Search Engine

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:13:05 +0000

I would suggest http://www.multitorrent.org
is a very nice meta search engine

By: Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » New and Promising BitTorrent Sites

Zwartbaard.nl » Blog Archive » New and Promising BitTorrent Sites — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:09:33 +0000

[...] said before, BitTorrent meta-search engines can be really useful, but they are useless if all the sites they [...]

By: IDTorrent Blog » Blog Archive » New and Promising BitTorrent Sites

IDTorrent Blog » Blog Archive » New and Promising BitTorrent Sites — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:04:06 +0000

[...] said before, BitTorrent meta-search engines can be really useful, but they are useless if all the sites they [...]

By: Torrentz Shuts Down Torrent'Em For Copyright Infringement |

Torrentz Shuts Down Torrent'Em For Copyright Infringement | — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:32:53 +0000

[...] for alleged copyright infringement. It turns out that the flash based search engine we wrote about a few days ago, was using Torrentz’ data, without [...]

By: Torrent'Em, a Flashy BitTorrent Search Engine |

Torrent'Em, a Flashy BitTorrent Search Engine | — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:37:21 +0000

[...] Torrent’Em, a Flashy BitTorrent Search Engine [...]

By: Banned again!!!

Banned again!!! — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:53:22 +0000

It’s gotta be said that the majority of people on private sites are elitist. They arent as friendly as those on public sites and very often lack a sense of humour and are less than welcoming. It seems to me that they are the computer nerd the stereotype was based on.

Hey thebox.bz stick your membership where the sun dont shine ya bunch of toffee-nosed bastards!!!

Nice site BTW, goodluck with it man.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:59:08 +0000

Because this is Flash I can’t add it to my Firefox search box.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:49:30 +0000

yeah.. torrentz will ban their servers soon and torrentem will be done

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:46:20 +0000

HEY DICKWEED

Torrentem steals Torrentz.com’s data.

By: 12345

12345 — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:36:08 +0000

Very nice, the seed/leech figures could be separated into two columns and the torrent comments from various sites be crawled and merged into this one.

2 cents.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:23:03 +0000

tHIS SITE IS REALLY COOL and it will good competition for torrentz.com

By: MRLEECH

MRLEECH — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:22:59 +0000

It looks good, but for me it has one great disadvantage over Youtorrent: You can’t put the search query into the URL, this fact makes it impossible to use it with tools like quicksilver or custom searchbars in various browsers. So they should add such a feature.

By: yourt_fucll_og_shutit

yourt_fucll_og_shutit — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:22:27 +0000

You really think that private sites are “full of them selves”?
Private sites are private because they can only allow so many people before they are crossing over a cost ratio.Bandwidth all that isnt free and the trackers to maintain 10,000 dont run on your p3 in your basement.
It is a small community in which most people are friends and know either other either irl or online.It isnt a “im better then you” type of thing.It isnt a security option either.It is simply the cost and community that make them special.Look at TPB,even with there make shift forums,there is no active community(considering there are allmost 2.5 million registered users(who knows how many just browse and leech) where as you may have 10,000 users in a private site and at any given day there are 5,000 users active interacting with each other in forums,irc,games,radio, etc,its more for a community feel vs uploading for the general masses and then leaving to go fap to some porn you just got.

All your egotistical philisiphys need not apply here.Private sites are people who are giving there money to the site for both maintence fees, and access to data in which to put on the site.Versues a public site with someone who is not exsprienced with say encoding and puts up a 1gb 320×240 avi file with the audio desynced…
Get my drift….

By: n3l87

n3l87 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:52:37 +0000

[quote comment="272813"]As for slagging of TPB, that just lowers any value your words had from none to even less..

Brokep has done more for the community than selfish little brats like you ever have[/quote]

So very true. Pretty much you are throwing rocks at your glass house, if you are hating on TPB. That’s just stupid. It’s like saying, “I don’t like losing my freedoms, but I love George Bush”. GG

And there are more public sites then you are obviously aware of.

By: n3l87

n3l87 — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:46:01 +0000

[quote comment="272658"]n3187, what is your site?[/quote]

Non-torrent / warez related. I’m an indie map developer for a game.

By: HBS

HBS — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:04:01 +0000

oh, and a/s/l your an utter knob. All this proprivate fags slagging of public sites for hitnrunners and theyre the people who HnR themselves.

As for slagging of TPB, that just lowers any value your words had from none to even less..

Brokep has done more for the community than selfish little brats like you ever have

By: HBS

HBS — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:55:23 +0000

i use both public and private sites, and both have benefits and cons. I dont understand how a person can hate on a community based system for being vulnerable to fakers and idiots, whilst they hoard their precious dvdscreeners like some kind of Gollum… Of course it depends on how anti-social your perspectives are i guess.. but to me.. somehow Peer2Peer doesnt seem the right term for what they do..

Anyway, nice looking site, once its been tweaked and more sites are added to the indexing then it should be pretty decent… not as good as isohunt though :P

By: John

John — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:47:56 +0000

Both public and private trackers are necessary, but I do dislike the private elitism some people have. a/s/l in particular makes me mad with rage. I always make a point of seeding anything I get off a public tracker to at least 2.0

The main reason I use private trackers is quality. If I want a proper V0 lame rip of something, guaranteed to not be a transcode the best place to go is unfortunately a private site.

Ideologically I prefer public sites, but right now they can’t always provide what I’m looking for. I’m hoping there will be some way to reconcile this in the future.

By: what site

what site — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:41:57 +0000

n3187, what is your site?

By: system

system — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:45:58 +0000

[quote comment="272464"]I’ve seen one truth though, throughout the years, and that is: Small communities that shut their doors to new comers ALWAYS ALWAYS do _not_ last. It is through the will of the Public community that sites like Mininova last for 3 YEARS and beyond.[/quote]

Mininova is just short of 3 months older than my site. You might want your “truth” checking, it appears to be broken.

As for the reasons specified as to why you wont open your own tracker, do you think you have a right to demand that others pour in unlimited resources to host a public tracker that does not dissapear under heavy loads while not investing a penny yourself? If it’s none of our business why you don’t run a tracker then it’s none of your business what sort of trackers we run.

The reason private trackers are so popular to run is because you can match the number of peers to your hardware, and not the other way around. That is how we can afford to run the things. If you’re waiting for someone with a DC the size of TPBs to come along and offer you an alternative, you’ll be waiting a long time.

BTW, public trackers are not the only hydra. They’re not much of a hydra at all. If someone took out TPB, how many new sites would pop up?
When someone takes out a private tracker, we actually do see at least 4-5 new ones replacing it.
Without the regrowing of heads, it’s less of a hydra and more of a cerberus.

Get the concept?