Visual Guide: the Top 35 Torrent Sites of 2009

Visual Guide: the Top 35 Torrent Sites of 2009
as collected from reader submissions

By Paul Gil, About.com

1. Entertane
Entertane is a "metasearch" engine. This means: it searches other search engine results, but present the results in a single screen for easy browsing. And Entertane does a slick job of providing eight other result sets in a convenient tabbed browsing format.
http://www.entertane.com/

2. Isohunt
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.
http://www.isohunt.com

3. 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...
http://thepiratebay.org/

4. 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.
http://www.demonoid.com/

5. BTjunkie
BTjunkie is a solid torrent service for many reasons: it has a massive database, it offers torrent email updates of new additions, Twitter updates, and useful reporting and comment features.
http://btjunkie.org/

6. H33T
Don't let the plain site design fool you: this newer torrent site has gotten very positive reviews from About.com readers.
http://www.h33t.com/

7. Flixflux
Flixflux is a United Kingdom torrent site that is very popular with European downloaders.
http://www.flixflux.co.uk

8. Vertor
This torrent service claims to filter out bad torrents, viruses, DRM locks, passwords, and fakes. Many readers are pleased with Vertor, and thus far their service has been exemplary. Definitely give Vertor a try.
http://www.vertor.com/index.php?mod=about

9. Fulldls.com
Fulldls offers some good power user features. You can customize the home page to display new torrents, you can message other members, you can set default sort order, and even tag favorites. A good site for serious downloaders.
http://www.fulldls.com/faq.php

10. Zoozle
This German downloader site has some slick features you won't find on other torrent sites. It lets you search eMule, Rapidshare, and UseNet. It also searches for subtitles, lyrics, serial numbers, and cracks. Definitely keep your eye on Zoozle as it continues to develop its services.
http://www.zoozle.org/

11. Torrent Root
Torrent Root is another metasearch engine, Torrent Root will pore through other search engines on your behalf, and display the results in a slick tabbed interface for your easy browsing.
http://www.torrentroot.com

12. GreekShare.net
For downloaders in the Mediterranean: GreekShare.net is a worthy private community. It has all the popular torrents available, plus many obscure European-content torrents.
http://www.greekshare.net/index2.php

13. BiteNova
Formerly known as “Bi-Torrents”, BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.
http://www.bitenova.org/

14. Torrentshack (aka "TorrentHunt")
Torrentshack, also known as Torrenthunt, is a rather plain looking search site. But plain is good, because it often means faster searching for people on slower connections. Torrentshack has been recommended by several About.com readers lately.
http://torrentshack.org/

15. Rapid Treggy
Rapid Treggy is a new private torrent community. Like Demonoid and other private sites, you must register an account, and then be willing to be tracked for how much you share the files you download. Because of this accountability, private communities are considered by many to be the best peer-to-peer torrent search sites.
http://rapidtreggy.com/

16. Gpirate
Gpirate is not a pretty site, and its cosmetics pale when compared to its competitors. But readers comment that the results from Gpirate searches are 98% high quality downloads. Check it out and decide if you like Gpirate.
http://www.gpirate.com/

17. Thunderbytes
As of July 2009, Thunderbytes is a family-friendly site with content that is good for kids and parents. Membership and registered account are required as part of the enforcement of this family-oriented community
http://www.thunderbytes.net/

18. Sumo Torrent
Like many torrent sites lately, Sumo is powered by adult ads. But several readers have reported that they like the data visibility of the torrent results at Sumo.
http://www.sumotorrent.com/

19. Torrentmatrix
Torrentmatrix used to be a top favorite of About.com readers. While other torrent sites have overtaken the popularity vote, Torrentmatrix still remains a good choice.
http://www.torrentmatrix.com/

20. Torrent Reactor
This site is not as pretty as its competitors, but it offers some noteworthy features. Namely: you can see torrent health at a glance, listings are arranged by categories/genres, and most popular torrents are listen on the home page.
http://www.torrentreactor.net/

21. IPtorrents
IPtorrents is an exclusive torrent site that accepts only people who are personally invited by existing members. Members who invite leechers ("cheaters") are banned from the site, which promotes a careful loyalty amongst its members.
http://www.iptorrents.com/

22. Torrentz
Special thanks to reader, Jonathan R., for this recommendation. The "verified" filtering feature of this site makes it a good choice for downloaders.
http://www.torrentz.com/

23. Now Torrents
Now Torrents (allegedly) offers a special service: it filters out fake/dead torrents. It also offers date-range searching, so you can search for specific years of content (e.g. Flight of the Conchords, 2008).
http://www.nowtorrents.com/

24. TuxDistro Linux Torrents
Linux users are always downloading things for their operating system. TuxDistro can really help, as it specializes in the latest available Linux content.
http://www.tuxdistro.com/

25. Toorgle
Toorgle uses the Google engine to search the Web for torrents. It doesn't provide seeds and verification information at a glance. Instead, Toorgle is useful for locating obscure music and video files that you won't find on the more popular sites.
http://www.tooorgle.com

26. Games Torrents
Games Torrents, while annoyingly powered by adult advertising, is a popular site with gamers.
http://www.gamestorrents.com/

27. Bitsoup
Bitsoup is another private torrent site, like Demonoid. The adminsitrators here seem to be truly committed to providing quality service, and filtering out the fakes and leeches. Definitely try Bitsoup if you are a serious downloader.
http://www.bitsoup.org/faq.php

28. Plentyoftorrents
Plenty of Torrents is a launchpad/metasearch search engine that offers choices where you want to search.
http://plentyoftorrents.com/

29. TorrentEngine
TorrentEngine is a very spartan-looking torrent engine, with very fast results and and icons that denote verified sources.
http://torrentengine.co.cc/

30. Torrentscan
Another metasearch torrent service, Torrentscan was very popular in 2007 and 2008. While other metasearch engines have surpassed it for speed and appearance, Torrentscan remains a solid choice.
http://www.torrentscan.com/

31. Meganova/SeedPeer
Meganova, which has been rebranded as "SeedPeer", seems to be slow to load these days. Nevertheless, teaders have commented that they like this site. New visitors should note the "keyword cloud" wall of text on the home page (this cloud gives you a quick sense of what are popular search phrases lately).
http://www.seedpeer.com/

32. WiTorrent
WiTorrent is a new recommendation by a couple of About.com readers. The metasearches are slow to load, but the results are consistently strong torrents with strong seed bases.
http://www.witorrent.com/

33. ScrapeTorrent
While some readers don't like dark backgrounds, this metasearch site is very clean and elegant in its presentation. Note the special filtering and sorting options when you try searching here.
http://www.scrapetorrent.com/index.php

34. Fenopy
Formerly "Bitoogle", Fenopy is considered by many to be the "original" bittorrent search engine. It has now morphed into a metasearch engine. The results from your Bitoogle searches will point to various other torrent search sites. This site has been redirected recently, and remains popular with About.com readers.
http://fenopy.com/

35. ShareReactor
ShareReactor is a search engine for both bit torrents and eDonkey 2000 ("ed2k") file formats. While eDonkey is not nearly as popular today as it was in 2002, some people still use ed2k networking.
http://sharereactor.com/

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Τώρα δικές μου έξτρα προτάσεις είναι οι εξής τράκερς:

http://www.karagarga.net/

http://thebox.bz

http://www.mininova.org/

και από ελληνικούς ηρωικούς τράκερς, τα εξής

http://www.blue-whitegt.com

http://www.gamato.info/