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Feb 6, 2012	More MegaUpload Fallout As BitTorrent Search Engine BTjunkie Calls It Quits	BTjunkie, a popular BitTorrent search service, has been ‘voluntarily’ shut down by its operator(s). In a goodbye message, BTjunkie writes: This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to volunta...
Jan 7, 2012	Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2012	Update: here is the list of 2020’s best torrenting sites. Which torrent sites get the most visitors at the start of 2012? At first glance little seems to have changed, as many of the sites in the top 10 have been among the top torrent sites...
Jan 5, 2011	Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2011	What’s hot in the wonderful world of BitTorrent in 2011? At first glance little seems to have changed, as the top 3 is identical to that of last year. But moving down the list we see quite a few movers and shakers as well as a surprising ne...
Mar 1, 2010	Google Removes BTJunkie From Search Results	Like most torrent sites, Google is no stranger to removing “copyright infringing” listings from its search results. Following up on complaints from the Chinese government and of course copyright holders, the company has been censoring its s...
Feb 27, 2010	Top 10 Torrent Sites Soon Without Mininova	Looking for the best torrent sites of 2011? Compared to a year ago the BitTorrent landscape has changed significantly. The Pirate Bay decided to shut down its tracker last fall and a few weeks later Mininova partly shut down its website. Ho...
Dec 13, 2009	Top 25 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2009	Update: The 2021 list of top torrent sites is published here. 2009 has been an eventful year for several well-established torrent sites, with The Pirate Bay, isoHunt and Mininova all battling in court against the entertainment industries. F...
Nov 26, 2009	10 Alternatives To Mininova	With an impressive 175,820,430 visits and close to a billion page views in the last 30 days, Mininova set a record that they will be unable to break in the near future. Last August a Dutch court ruled that Mininova had to remove all links t...
Oct 26, 2009	TaffyBox Shut Down by BTjunkie for Leeching Resources	TaffyBox is a torrent search engine that allows its users to download torrents directly through a Java applet in their web browser, instead of a regular BitTorrent client. The idea is not entirely new, as Vertor and a couple of other sites ...
Oct 25, 2009	TaffyBox Combines BitTorrent Search And Web Download	An email announcing TaffyBox hit our inbox this morning. It’s yet-another-BitTorrent service, but there’s a hook that makes it a really nice choice for the casual BitTorrent user – easy search combined with a Java applet BitTorrent client f...
Aug 22, 2009	25 Great Pirate Bay Alternatives	Replacing The Pirate Bay is easier said then done. The tracker is currently responsible for approximately half of all public torrent transfers, which represents a significant percentage of global Internet traffic. However, history has shown...
Jul 25, 2009	BitTorrent Behind the Scenes: BTjunkie	In this ‘behind the scenes’ series we will try to uncover some of the mystery that surrounds BitTorrent sites and the people who run them. First up the the founder of BTjunkie, one of the most visited torrent sites, and one of the guys behi...
Dec 28, 2008	Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2008	Tip: Want to download Torrents anonymously? Try TorrentPrivacy, the only way to download torrents securely. The list is based on traffic rank reports from Compete and Alexa, backed up by visitor reports from some of the site admins. Update:...
Sep 7, 2008	Anti-Piracy Scam Emails Target BitTorrent Users	Over the years BitTorrent has attracted some shady figures. We’ve reported on malware ridden BitTorrent clients and media players, a BitTorrent site that infects its users with spyware, and several other scams. Although most scams can be av...
Jul 5, 2008	Top Torrent Sites Ranked by Google	It is hard to make a definite list of the most popular BitTorrent sites. Over the years we’ve made quite a few lists, and reported some of the latest trends. Most lists we published were based on Alexa‘s ranking, mainly because it was prett...
Mar 22, 2008	BitTorrent Sites Show Explosive Growth	We decided to compile a list of the 25 most popular BitTorrent sites, and see how their (relative) popularity has grown over the past three months. Out of the 25 sites in the list, 21 improved their ranking in Alexa’s list of most popular s...
Dec 29, 2007	Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2007	The list is based on Alexa’s traffic rank, and this data was backed up by reports from quantified sites on quantcast and traffic reports from some of the site admins. Here is the list, as of December 29, public BitTorrent sites only. 1. Min...
Dec 8, 2007	50 Cent: File Sharing Doesn’t Hurt Artists	The music of performer 50 Cent has zero appeal to me, but the man is undoubtedly smart, as the following words (via TorrentFreak) attest: Q: “How are G-Unit Records doing in these times of file-sharing? “Not so good….The advances in technol...
Oct 19, 2007	Telecoms Outfit Banned From BitTorrent Advertizing	Arcor, the fixed network operator for Vodafone in Germany has received an injunction forbidding it to advertize on P2P sites in the future. The injunction was issued by the state court in Frankfurt after the German Association of Video and ...
Apr 22, 2007	Using Adsense to Fight Malicious BitTorrent Clients	How? Well, we started to run Google Adwords campaigns on the Bitroll, Torrent101 and Torrentq websites. In just four days the ads were shown 20,000 times, the clickthrough rate was impressive, and the ads probably prevented more than one th...
Jan 11, 2007	MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents	The MPAA and other anti-piracy watchdogs try to trap people into downloading fake torrents, so they can collect IP addresses, and send copyright infringement letters to ISPs. They hire a company to put up fake copies of popular movies, musi...

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Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning btjunkie.org, among them “More MegaUpload Fallout As BitTorrent Search Engine BTjunkie Calls It Quits” (Feb 6, 2012) and “Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2012” (Jan 7, 2012).

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Yes, btjunkie.org is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Feb 6, 2012.