What Are the Good Bit Torrent Search Engines?
I came across an awful “top torrent site” list yesterday so I decided to make my own. So Here it is, TorrentFreak’s one and only top torrent sites + firefox search plugins,
"What Are the Five Best Torrent Search Engines?"
Answer: As of August 4, 2009, the 5 best bit torrent search engine sites are listed below. This list is compiled from reader votes, and voted on each week by a small panel of torrent download users. This list is assembled from hundreds of reader email suggestions.
1. Torrentz
Alexa Rank: 1492
2. Mininova
Alexa Rank: 290
3. ThePirateBay
Alexa Rank: 427
4. Demonoid (private)
Alexa Rank: 470
5. Isohunt
Alexa Rank: 720
6. Meganova
Alexa Rank: 8970
7. BiteNova
Alexa Rank: 11558
8. BitTorrent
Alexa Rank: 1468
9. Torrentbox
Alexa Rank: 4360
10. TorrentReactor
Alexa Rank: 9103
There is a breadth of criteria used to evaluate these torrent sites: size of database, database currency, ease of use and searching, speed of access, general integrity of files, information provided about the files, information provided on the torrent P2P community, price of membership, readers’ comments, and readers’ ability to provide feedback on each other.
Bittorrent continues to be the most popular method for file sharing on the internet. However since suprnova torrents was bought down by the RIAA, a very popular aggregator of torrents for p2p file sharing came down. Right now, you can download torrents using clients such asKazaa, emule and Bit Tornado. However, these do not have a vast search base which is where abittorrent search engine comes in.
Isohunt.com
(In a shocking turn of the tables this September, the Isohunt webmaster is counter-suing the Canadian music industry. He is claiming that previous copyright violation suits against him were unfounded, and that he is entitled to have his legal expenses recovered. Read the entire story at www.isohunt.com)
How exactly does BitTorrent Sharing work?
Answer: Torrent sharing is about "swarming and tracking", where users download many small bits from many different sources at once. Because this format compensates for bottleneck points, it is actually faster than downloading a large file from a single source.
- “Swarming” is about splitting large files into hundreds of smaller “bits”, and then sharing those bits across a “swarm” of dozens of linked users.
- “Tracking” is when specific servers help swarm users find each other.
- Swarm members use special Torrent client software to upload, download, and reconstruct the many file bits into complete usable files.
- Special .torrent text files act as pointers during this whole process, helping users find other users to swarm with, and enforcing quality control on all shared files.
Demonoid
Demonoid is the benchmark private torrent site. All other private P2P communities compare themselves to Demonoid, and even with the massive competition, Demonoid still remains a top site in the eyes of downloaders everywhere. If you successfully get a registered membership at Demonoid, do not abuse it. Thousands of people are happy to take your spot if you do not share files and maintain your requisite ratio.
The Pirate Bay
News Flash, April 18, 2009: the Stockholm district court has sentenced the four Pirate Bay founders to a year in prison, and over $USD 3.5 million in fines. This is as punishment for violating their country’s copyright laws. More on this shocking court ruling here…
What exactly is "Bittorrent" sharing?
Answer: Bittorrent networking is the most popular form of P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing. Since 2006, Bittorrent sharing has been the means of choice for users to trade software, music, movies, and digital books online. Bittorrents are very unpopular with the MPAA, the RIAA, and other copyright authorities, but are much beloved by millions of college and university students around the planet.
Bittorrents (a term synonymous with "torrents") work by downloading small bits of files from many different web sources at the same time. Torrent downloading is extremely easy to use, and outside of a few torrent search providers, torrents themselves are free of user fees.
Torrent networking debuted in 2001. A Python-language programmer, Bram Cohen, created the technology with the intent to share it with everyone. And indeed, its popularity has taken off since 2005. The torrent community is now growing exponentially in 2007. Because torrents screen out dummy and corrupt files, are largely free of adware/spyware, and achieve amazing download speeds, torrent popularity is growing fast. By straight gigabytes of bandwidth used, bittorrent networking is the most popular activity on the Internet today.
How are torrents special? How is the torrent community different from Kazaa or Limewire?
Answer: Like the other file-sharing networks (Kazaa, Limewire, Gnutella, eDonkey, and Shareaza) BitTorrent’s primary purpose is to distribute large media files to private users.
