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| Mar 24, 2009 | TorrentSpy, One Year After the Shutdown | Only two years ago, TorrentSpy was the largest BitTorrent site on the Internet, competing with Mininova and The Pirate Bay. Its future was uncertain though, as the site found itself embroiled in a costly legal battle with the MPAA.
The case... |
| 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:... |
| Mar 27, 2008 | TorrentSpy Shuts Down | TorrentSpy is no more, Justin Bunnell, the founder of the site writes: “We have decided on our own, not due to any court order or agreement, to bring the TorrentSpy.com search engine to an end and thus we permanently closed down worldwide o... |
| 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 20, 2007 | BitTorrent Site Loses Court Case for “Destroying Evidence” | Popular BitTorrent search engine TorrentSpy lost a copyright case brought against it in a US cought by the Motion Picture Association of America by default for destroying evidence, reports the BBC. The site’s operator’s apparently ignored a... |
| Nov 13, 2007 | Leading BitTorrent Admins Discuss The Future of BitTorrent | It’s hard to predict the future, especially when it comes to technology. However, that didn’t put us off and we gave it a shot. We asked the people behind the 4 largest BitTorrent sites on the Internet to tell us how they envision the futur... |
| Sep 25, 2007 | Bittorrent pirates shut down, will Joost get a boost? | Within the past week, three of the most popular sites for peer-to-peer sharing have either turned off or banned users from the United States. Most recent is Demonoid, the second most popular sharing site; it appears to have been cut off by ... |
| Aug 27, 2007 | TorrentSpy Blocks Searches From US Visitors | This service denial seems to be a preventative measure to protect their users, when US users try to search on TorrentSpy they now get this message:
Sorry, but because you are located in the USA you cannot use the search features of the Torr... |
| Aug 27, 2007 | TorrentSpy Now Blocks U.S. Users From Accessing It | TorrentSpy, one of the more popular public BitTorrent Web sites out there, has started blocking U.S. users. Once U.S. users search for something (I searched for “music”) or try to navigate its directory, you’re greeted with a nice little me... |
| Aug 23, 2007 | BitComet Pollutes BitTorrent with Junk Data | So what are these padding files?
For every file in a multi-file torrent, BitComet includes a padding file by default. This overcomes the problem of ending one file and beginning another on the same BitTorrent “piece.” The feature was added ... |
| Jul 9, 2007 | Mininova Enters List of 100 Most Popular Sites on the Internet | Mininova went head to head with Torrentspy for over a year but over the past few months Mininova clearly took the lead. This week they reached the same level as the popular social bookmarking website Digg.com, and their growth doesn’t seem ... |
| Jun 23, 2007 | BitTorrent Sites Safe Haven Under Threat | In response to this decision (Dutch link) several BitTorrent admins, who prefer not to be named, already announced that they have plans to leave Leaseweb. Others are setting up backup locations in case their site s are targeted. An admin of... |
| Jun 9, 2007 | TorrentSpy Ordered By Federal Judge to Become MPAA Spy | According to CNET News.com. federal judge Jacqueline Chooljian requested that Torrentspy (what’s in a name) must start creating logs detailing their user’s activities. This, despite the site’s privacy policy which states they will never mon... |
| May 25, 2007 | New and Promising Torrent Sites | A while ago we made a list of the top 20 less known BitTorrent sites, a post that was well received. Today, we made a list of some of the new BitTorrent sites, and this time we included a short description for every site. Btswarm.org
Btswar... |
| Feb 20, 2007 | BitTorrent Most Popular in Australia | This top 10 is based on the relative Alexa rank these countries have on the 5 most visited BitTorrent sites: mininova, torrentspy, the pirate bay, isohunt and torrentz.
01.Australia
Favorite Site: Mininova
02. Romania
Favorite Site: Mininov... |
| Jan 22, 2007 | The Pirate Bay, mininova, and Torrentspy Enter the Alexa 200 | Torrentspy is in the lead with a traffic rank of 153, followed by mininova (165) and The Pirate Bay (198). The huge amounts of traffic that these sites generate, and the fact that they keep on growing shows that the popularity of BitTorrent... |
| Jan 20, 2007 | Malicious BitTorrent Clients: Torrent101 & Bitroll | Both clients are scam products that claim to bring you ‘high speeds downloads’, but all they do is install malware, and hijack your browser. We already posted about Bitroll a while ago, and if you take a look at the comments on that post yo... |
| Jan 17, 2007 | Isohunt and Friends Taken Down by the MPAA | February 2006 the MPAA announced lawsuits (PDF) against Torrentspy, Torrentbox and Isohunt, three of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Isohunt owner Gary later told TorrentFreak that they will not bow down to the MPAA. Isohunt hir... |
| Jan 17, 2007 | Interview with Bram Cohen, the inventor of BitTorrent | TorrentFreak: What is the best thing about your job at BitTorrent Inc?
Bram Cohen: I really enjoy making products which I personally want to use, and like to empower people to do things they couldn’t do without BitTorrent’s efficiency and r... |
| Jan 2, 2007 | Torrentspy Most Popular BitTorrent Site of 2006 | 1. Torrentspy.com (Alexa rank: 176)
2. Mininova.org (Alexa rank: 207)
3. ThePirateBay.org (Alexa rank: 291)
All three websites continued to grow in 2006, especially in the first half of the year. The graph below shows that they all entered ... |
| Dec 25, 2006 | 2006: MPAA vs. BitTorrent Sites | MPAA sues popular BitTorrent search engines
This February the MPAA announced lawsuits (PDF) against Torrentspy, Torrentbox and Isohunt, three of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Isohunt owner Gary later told TorrentFreak that the... |
| Nov 10, 2006 | Torrentspy passes the 2 million registered users mark | A lot of things happened at Torrentspy after they reached the 1 million registered users milestone on December 8th last year. In February the MPAA filed a lawsuit against Torrentspy which caused quite some controversy. However, Torrentspy r... |
| Nov 5, 2006 | Google Torrents | Google Torrents is using the Google Coop platform. Google Coop allows people to create customized and personalized search engines.
Even though it is not very useful, it does show that it is easy to find torrents with Google. Google even has... |
| Oct 7, 2006 | Searching.com Flirts with BitTorrent Sites | At the moment Torrentreactor is responsible for almost 90% of searching’s traffic.
Searching’s traffic was even higher last year, when they were still working with torrentspy. However, torrentspy and searching abruptly ended this partnershi... |
| Sep 26, 2006 | BitTorrent Sites Are Slowly Taking Over the Internet | Back in 2004, Suprnova managed to settle itself among the 1000 most visited websites on the internet. So when the site was taken offline december 19, 2004, there was a huge gap to fill. Today, 6 BitTorrent sites entered this top 1000 list, ... |
| Sep 5, 2006 | Torrentspy’s New Features are Live | After a couple of weeks of finetuning, and months of hard work, Torrentspy.com finally launched their new features.
An overview of the new stuff can be found over here. The redesign was planned to go live earlier this month, but better late... |
| Apr 1, 2006 | Is BitTorrent Inc. messing with the MPAA? | It’s striking because the MPAA is filing lawsuits against sites like Isohunt and Torrentspy but not against their partner BitTorrent.com. And the funny thing is, they all index the same torrents.
BitTorrent inc. did change their search engi... |
| Dec 31, 2005 | BitTorrent 2005 part 5, Filling the gap | The weeks and months after that, new sites were launched. Some of these grew out to be among the most popular torrent sites by the end of 2005. By far the most popular “new” site is mininova.org. Mininova started in januari 2005, but within... |
| Dec 24, 2005 | Top 15 Torrent Sites of 2005 | Oldies
01. Torrentspy.com
Great torrent site with a lot of torrents. At the moment Torrentspy is the biggest torrent site on the web.
02. Demonoid.com
Great community based site. The biggest tracker out there after mongo56 died.
03. ThePira... |
| Nov 23, 2005 | BitTorrent And MPAA join forces | This is not really a shock for the BitTorrent community since this torrent search site is a relatively new one, and the alternatives are far more popular.
However, it’s still a fact that the creator of the most popular filesharing network i... |