Comments on: YouTorrent Relaunches with 67,170 Legal Torrents

By: dini sohbet

dini sohbet — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:39:51 +0000

By: Tobi

Tobi — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:09:32 +0000

Um, to join the choir: my favourite site is btjunkie. I just checked out pizzatorrent.com -> that looks like youtorrent in the time it didn’t suck.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:42:59 +0000

It’s official. YouTorrent SUCKS BIG TIME! The new look it’s a big piece of shit, why did you try to clone google?? And second legal torrents suck too. Congratulations you’ve ruined one of the best sites in the internet. Losers.

By: Dereks

Dereks — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:21:33 +0000

Actually I don’t get this idea at all. It’s stupid.

When I come to any torrent-search site, I search for something specific. In 99% of cases it’s not “legal”. And how many torrents in comparison ARE legal out there? I don’t think much.
What am I supposed to do at that site? Check if for some miraculous reason the file I’m searching for have been distributed for free? I don’t need to check – I know it wasn’t.
Just gave it a try: went to games, typed fallout. What did I get? Nothing, zero!
For legal torrenting they should have bothered to make a catalog or something. There is really nothing to search for there.
The idea is stupid, really stupid.

By: oneplusone

oneplusone — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:42:47 +0000

Categories at least.

a la G.O.B. Bluth: “COME On!!!”

By: Alexsandro

Alexsandro — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:02:57 +0000

Whare’s old layout?

I prefer a grid was like a popcorn effect result on screen.

Go back please!!

–
Alexsandro
http://www.alexsandro.com.br

By: meepmeep

meepmeep — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:45:28 +0000

Now that youtorrent has gone legal, http://btdig.com is the only torrent metasearch engine for me. Didn’t like youtorrent in its prime either though… always got a bunch of irrelevant results. I guess pizzatorrent/nowtorrents are viable options too, but they don’t quite match up to btdig. Just my two cents :)

By: oneplusone

oneplusone — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:48:45 +0000

@#43 (Sheamus)
Every so often someone with a sublime sense of humor posts on here… Kudos. “I can’t imagine many of them hang(ing) around after getting a page full of jazz tunes.”

By: irreversible

irreversible — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:17:20 +0000

bye bye youtorrent

By: Abhisek

Abhisek — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:32:19 +0000

Frankly, it’s not really a *torrent* site. I mean they are being a little too legal.

By: butane bob

butane bob — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:32:15 +0000

I said this last time and i’ll say it again – http://www.scrapetorrent.com

By: Idealist

Idealist — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:07:58 +0000

What I meant to say was that YouTorrent does not give me the ability to browse for new music–I need to know what I’m looking for–and this is what makes it not terribly useful.

By: Idealist

Idealist — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:41:28 +0000

This is great news!

The more legal torrent sites we have out there the better. I spoke up in support of this move when it first happened some months ago. Sites like this, and Jamendo and the legal content on Mininova, etc. give musicians, filmmakers, authors and programmers an outlet to release their material for free on a site that doesn’t carry the stigma of piracy.

We need to make a distinction between FREEDOM of information, such as this, and LIBERATION of intellectual property (piracy). As more inherently FREE outlets become available to creators, the need for a liberation front becomes more irrelevant… because we’ve won!

I absolutely do not condemn the liberation of creative works from restrictive corporate copyrights, but to support new systems that foster freedom is a far better option. Ultimately with piracy, although it is an act of rebellion against the corporations, there is alienation between the consumers and the artists and this is not sustainable for our culture over the long time.

Regardless of all this, I probably won’t use YouTorrent. I use free distribution sites (like Jamendo) to find artists new to me that share my views on copyright. YouTorrent does not give me that ability and as such is not terribly useful.

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:25:15 +0000

Surely the bulk of those “hundreds of thousands of searches a day” are people searching for illegal torrents? I can’t imagine many of them hang around after getting a page full of jazz tunes. What a farce.

By: me

me — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:19:39 +0000

what no browse feature?

By: Hanal Probe

Hanal Probe — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:24:10 +0000

Good idea but crappy GUI.

Would like to look at the software category but No they said, you can search but what the FuKC do I search for if I don’t know what I am looking for.

The returned results are shite, you do not know what the hell they are or what category them come from.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

By: oneplusone

oneplusone — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:29:52 +0000

That was horrible. No browse, just search. Crappy interface. Unsatisfactory at best.

By: US

US — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:21:42 +0000

It was kickass when they started
A very cool search system, bit less torrents but the whole idea was pretty nice
Still preferred Torrentz.com because of the small ammount of torrents, I would come back later
But when i saw this article en did visit YouTorrent it was all crap o.0

By: captain obvious

captain obvious — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:43:16 +0000

What’s with all this talk about caving in and being forced to go legal? I’m pretty sure this was the business plan right from the start. I mean seriously, think about it: searching all the popular torrent sites with a snappy interface was the quickest way to get a huge user base, the losses after transitioning to phase 2 (the intended site as it is now) were expected. It’s just smart marketing, folks.

By: Bleh

Bleh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:41:41 +0000

Youtorrent was only in it for the money anyway, they could care less about the P2P movement.

Theres nothing wrong with LEGAL torrents.. but seriously.. every torrent is ‘legal’.. lol, theres nothing ‘illegal’ about them.

People are getting this picture in there head that torrents are piracy only.. and this site doesnt help, it only makes it worst. There should be no such thing as a LEGAL torrent and a ILLEGAL torrent in peoples mind, copyright is the same as prison.. no freedom.

Let the world evolve, every technology to date has been called ‘piracy’, yet look at where we are now. Yes.. someone will have to loose there job or not make as much money.. ITS HOW THE WORLD CHANGES.