YourBittorrent Continues Where MyBittorrent Left Off
Written by Ernesto on October 20, 2009MyBittorrent is familiar name to most in the BitTorrent community, so it came as a surprise when the site shut down this summer. After a dispute concerning the site’s future, the two founders agreed to go their separate ways and close the site. One of them has now returned with a brand new torrent search engine.
Founded in early 2004, myBittorrent grew to become a prominent and well-established torrent site over the next few years. The site had been flying under the radar for a long time and didn’t run into any legal troubles, but it did have a serious dispute with its domain registrar, GoDaddy, in 2006.
After receiving a complaint from Microsoft, GoDaddy temporary hijacked the myBittorrent domain, but after emails back and forth the owners managed to regain control. In the years that followed the two founders continued business as usual, frequently changing the look and layout of the site.
In fact, the two changed plans so often that they never really managed to add new features to the site. “Instead of adding new things we were always spending time on fixing features that used to work just fine,” Rex, one of the site’s founders told TorrentFreak.
Nevertheless, myBittorrent grew out to become one of the largest torrent sites, serving torrents to millions of visitors every month. This popularity, together with the increased legal pressure against fellow torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and Mininova, raised doubts with Rex’s partner, who wanted to scale down.
Eventually this led to a rift between the two owners. Rex wanted to continue with the site, but his partner opted to close down the operation permanently. To resolve the dispute the two decided to go their separate ways. This summer myBittorrent was shut down for good, but not before a replacement was in place.
To fill the gap left by myBitTorrent, Rex launched a new site under a new name – yourBittorrent.
“The biggest difference between both sites is that yourBittorrent has verified and adult torrents,” Rex told TorrentFreak, adding that he plans to include many new features in the near future, including an integrated subtitle search engine.
“YourBittorrent will soon have a few million subtitles and IMDB-links linked to all movies and TV-shows. The advanced search will also be extended to allow people to look for subtitles. YourBittorrent is going to be the first site where you can do that,” Rex said.
Another key feature is that the site will verify torrents to prevent the appearance of fake files and spam. “YourBittorrent has its own verification system with 60,000 verified torrents, and unlike some other torrent sites, we do take measures against fake files,” Rex told TorrentFreak.
Thus far 2009 has not been the best year for BitTorrent. Many sites have gone down or received negative verdicts in court, so it’s good to see that yourBittorrent continues where myBittorrent left off.
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cool stuff, when eveything is going down the shitter its nice to hear some good news!
awsome!
there’s an imdb-link on most movies @ torrentleech…
I don’t know why anyone would care about the imdb links on torrentleech. Torrentleech is a closed community that doesn’t offer any signups. yourBittorrent will be one of the two open/main torrent search engines that will allow people to see IMDB links.
I’m sorry but this site doesn’t give a very good first impression. First off, I noticed all of the scene releases that were originally named with “XviD” are re-named as “Divx”. Also, the information on the details page lists the filesize total incorrectly. For instance, a 1.36GB ACR XviD rip of Public Enemies by ViSION has been renamed as Divx and says it is 3.1GB. I see no IMDB links either, but honestly, how is this a big deal at all? That seems like it should take all of 2 seconds to implement. Outsource it to India for 25 cents if you need to.
Well for whatever its worth (if anybody gives a shit), we at Leakz.net offer info on the content of the torrent, in our search results, be it movies/games/music/software. So that part about youbittorrent being the first site to offer this is not correct. Mininova too has imdb links for all movie uploads these days and I am sure many more sites have this too…
Isn’t this just another Torrent Search engine?
Please… we don’t need anymore search engines…
we’ve already got good search engines, btmon and leakz.net
redundancy ,, cool
Nice one, good luck with that Rex
Pirlog from the beginning had crawled for IMDB links & Subtitles of torrents. It also had option to search using IMDB Id.
http://Pirlog.com
Rex’s partner was Adam Smith who is now running TVCatchup.com with his partner Nick Parr. Its no surprise that Smith wanted to limit the radioactivity of mybt so that his new dodgy venture (TVCatchup) was not contaminated. Problem is its already too late for that what with Nick Parr’s record on mistreating/conning elderly people – http://www.carestandardstribunal.gov.uk/Judgments/j758/344.%20Mr%20Nicholas%20and%20Mrs%20Jacqueline%20Parr%20v%20Buckinghamshire%20County%20Council.doc – and Smith’s landgrab (with their other partner Chris Wilkie – Netrino UK) for companies that offer VPN services to circumnavigate UK law and allow people to access UK TV illegally through their website and app.
Right little trio of commercial pirates them three :p.
@ #4 imdb links are very convenient…are you serious? I always check the imdb before i dl a movie. And TL does this perfectly. It is easy to get into as well – just cant be a lazy leecher as yourself.
howoabpt u all join a priveyt site and get subtites with every realse?
Tho shti us OLDDD news and you people could be doing so much better 5 minute dl for the wim!!
High as hell on zopiclones plz forgive me..
@12
Hmmm…sounds a bit like you’re jealous or resentful and that you’re acquainted with these guys somehow?
You could brand them as “commercial pirates” if you drink the copyright coolade, but they’re entrepreneur and that’s probably how history will remember those who tried to free humans art and information from the grasps of greed
No trackers no party. Search engines are useless.
Mininova includes imdb links.
There are community sites like kickasstorrents.com that are very good at indexing content info of movies and music torrents.
Leakz.net provides content info of movie, music, games torrents on its results page.
So its nothing new – we have better and bigger sites already to do the job…
That’s EXACTLY what happens when you register your domain with an American company like GoDaddy. Next time, choose more wisely!
Secondly – the subtitle feature sounds great – really handy.
The site looks nice and simple, which is good, but the movies section on the front page looks to have many fakes. A dvdrip of Inglourious Basterds? Nope, not yet.
You don’t need to get into a private site to get subtitles for every release.
Mind you, I doubt many people think that you’d actually need subtitles for EVERY release…
QUOTE: Outsource it to India for 25 cents if you need to.
That’s a bit of an arrogant comment. They get about 1/3 of a UK salary and for that they can live a very luxurious life in India. (pool, domestic servants….)
Check your facts before you speak.
works like a charm, thanks for the news!
Who’s torrent ? I downloaded 4 blockbuster recent release films yesterday ….. 3 out the 4 were fake. They required a special “player” to download. This never happens to me on the “Bay”. I am not at all impressed. It can become “your” torrent if you wish, but it ain’t “My’ torrent
@21
nah surely they get more than 1/3 of UK. Labours have been constantly pouring more and more fivers to Pakis.. wait, you meant India?
Good to see BitTorrent growing while those ‘you know what’ are trying to shut them down. Way to go yourBittorent ;)
Good luck and hope it has a long life!
who this is brand new! look at:
http://api.theghostbay.org/
GoDaddy has a bunch of commercials on TV now. At first I thought it was a porn site but thanks to this post I realize they are just as bad.
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