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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. The best Torrent sites are private... by packeteer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Honestly the best torrent sites are the semi-private ones. There are quite a few non-public bit torrent sites that are very easy to get into but are not directly available to anyone who goes to their web page.

    I find that public BT sites are too slow becuase nobody cares to share much.

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  2. Re:From the quote at the bottom of /. as I read th by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Interesting
    There's something the technicians need to learn from the artists. If it isn't aesthetically pleasing, it's probably wrong.
    How hilariously coincidental. And although it may be the quote of the moment, I must counter with something I've said to many people: Stephen Hawking isn't very aesthetically pleasing but he's rarely wrong.

    Or, conventionally cited as "you can't judge a book by its cover."

    What it means is that I've seen some very ugly things create or provide very beautiful things. Elliott Smith was ugly but his music was beautiful. Although the library I went to as a kid was ugly and looked like an old bomb shelter, it provided something very important to me. Although snakes and earth worms and spiders look ugly as hell, I still love what they do. And, as a kid, it made sense to me to kill rabbits and pocket gophers on a farm while making sure not to harm a garden snake as I mowed the lawn.

    Like I'll still maintain, whether something is beautiful or ugly tells me nothing.
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  3. TFA's conclusion: by kripkenstein · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... btjunkie.org

    However, I'm not sure I can trust anything this 'review' says. For example, by the numbers btjunkie.org seems incredibly more successful than any of its competition, which seems a bit odd given that it doesn't seem that well-known (53,000 hits on Google; compare to mininova, which has 3,000,000). TFA says:

    "At first I thought BTJunkie's numbers must be fake, but I assure you it is real! I tested the number posted with the number in the actual directory for the day and they matched for a week straight!"

    Yes, I am sure that you did, and I am also sure that you don't own btjunkie.org. 100% sure.