If you register you will see that those so called locked torrents can be accessed, but they are from different trackers. You visit the site, obtain a login and then input the details to your VIP account in BTJunkie. This means that they can list torrents downloadable only from other websites, meaning that their listings are far larger.

The only problem with this system is that even when you can get a login to these sites (and a lot of them require invitation) they tend to remove you for non-activity.

We noticed a great deal of smearing in the comments on both Slashdot and Digg. What’s more interesting is we found _identical_ posts that were submited to multiple comment sources! (Smear Campaign!) Do not listen to these people! They run their own sites or they are tech-savy know-it-alls that couldn’t even write a simple C program.

As a final note I would like to add that not only did the founder of Digg support our site but the founder of Slashdot (CmdrTaco) also supported the blogs findings. If you find yourself torn between who to believe, let me reliterate your two sources:

For BTJunkie: Founder of Slashdot, Founder of Digg

Against BTJunkie: Jealous BitTorrent Site Owners, Torrentfreak

1. BTJunkie has UNIQUE TORRENTS!!!

Try uploading the same torrent twice? Try downloading a torrent from BTJunkie and uploading it. It won’t let you because our system only allows a unique combination between announce URLs and hash. This allows users to submit custom versions of announce URLs. Some people have claimed this causes our stats to be inflated, but we have taken a count of only unique hashes and we have a 98% unique database. The only time you will see these different versions of announce lists is on the most popular torrents, that is why these people that don’t understand our system come up with this conception that there are duplicates like this the whole way though, but it’s just not true. As for Flippy’s comment about torrentz being at 1.6 mil, if we counted torrents the way you thought we did we would almost be at a billion. To give Flippy a relevant comparison of BTJunkie’s database compared to his we took a count of every torrent BTJunkie has that is actively scraped with a least 1 seed: 370,753. (Torrentz has 166,000). I’m not trying to discredit your site Flippy as you have done to ours; I think you have done a great job!

2. BTJunkie DOES NOT keep dead torrents.

On September 25th btjunkie had 965,000 torrents and today (Oct. 9) it only has 975,000 torrents, if you add an average of 5,000 torrents a day I think a torrent or two is getting deleted here! We do continue to list active (scraped) torrents that don’t have any seeds because the leechers _can_ make a seed again! Why not leave the possibilities open to the users? We delete torrents when they can no longer be scraped for several days. Also, you can add “seed>0″ to your query at btjunkie and it will only show seeded torrents.

3. BTJunkie has search based RSS feeds: btjunkie.org/rss.xml?query=
Torrentfreak claims that he thought 9/10 for BTJunkie was absurd because it doesn’t have searched based RSS (one feature and your out)! Although I agree that our features are not as rich as some and this probably was a higher rating then we disserved. We have concentrated so much on our crawler that we feel we are lacking in site features, but you will start to see some great new features as we feel our crawler is almost perfected enough for now.