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Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-have-legitimate-purposes-as-well dept.

An anonymous reader writes that "This study was just released that compares the ten most popular BitTorrent sites. A great read if you are torn between what site to use, it has benchmark graphs and anaylsis. I was rather suprised with the findings." I hadn't heard of several of the top sites they rate. But why is it that so many torrent sites are so ugly?

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  1. Re:Which of these by thatbox · · Score: 5, Informative
    There's always Legaltorrents.com, started by Simon Carless!

    please note that all of the current torrents are made available under a Creative Commons license with the full permission of the rights holder.
  2. Another function by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was surprised to find that legaltorrents.com is not even mentioned. Are they such a bit player? Is there a bigger, better site in that space (i.e. free/openn/cc culture)?

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  3. Re:TFA's conclusion: by ichigo+2.0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    On a related note, I was under the impression that the Pirate Bay had been taken down and was now being closely monitored and downloading from them was essentially flagging yourself.

    Nope, the whole raid was apparently illegal and was done only because the white house pressured the Swedish government to do it, they might even end up getting paid restitution from their government (maybe that part's wishful thinking).

    Also, here is a tracert of thepiratebay.org, it would be pretty devious of the MPAA to use this domain name (apb is a swedish copyright lobby organisation):

    Tracing route to piratebay.org [83.140.176.146] over a maximum of 30 hops:

    1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1

    2 1 ms 2 ms 3 ms 192.168.1.62

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    9 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms netnod-ix-ge-a-sth-4470.port80.se [195.245.240.143]

    10 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms hey.mpaa.and.apb.bite.my.shiny.metal.ass.thepirate bay.org [83.140.176.146]


    :)