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Popular BitTorrent Search Engine Site Torrentz.eu Mysteriously Disappears (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the mystery-machine dept.

monkeyzoo writes: Softpedia reports that Torrentz.eu, the internet's biggest BitTorrent meta-search engine, has mysteriously and suddenly shut down. Visitors of the website see a simple message that reads, "Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines." Trying to run a search, or clicking any link on the site changes that message to "Torrentz will always love you. Farewell." The main .EU domain, as well as all backup domains (.ME, .CH, and .IN), have the same message. The reason for the disappearance is mysterious, but there is speculation that Torrentz.eu admins decided to pull the plug on their own and avoid any future legal problems in the wake of increasing legal pressure on The Pirate Bay and the arrests related to KickassTorrents. It also cannot be ruled out that the site was hacked.

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  1. Re:First Post by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Informative

    These days I find Google is pretty good, or DuckDuckGo if you prefer. Sometimes I use Yahoo Japan or Baidu too, because they seem to ignore American DMCA censorship requests.

    On Google/DDG try filetype:magent or filetype:torrent. With the former you can often get the link you need from the result snippet without even opening the site it came from.

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  2. Re:First Post by Calydor · · Score: 4, Informative

    It will always be September.

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  3. Re:First Post by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use usenet as well, but I find torrents are better for some releases. There is unfortunately quite a lot of spam on usenet. Because torrent sites usually let people vote or comment it's easier to filter out. Releases go up on torrent sites a lot faster too.

    Personally I prefer Astraweb for news. Similar pricing for monthly, but I use use PAYG because I wouldn't get my money's worth from monthly.

    Torrents aren't labour intensive for me anyway. I wrote a little Greasemonkey script that adds links to a popular TV calendar site that go directly to torrent sites. I need to update it now KAT and torrentz.eu are gone, so look for an update in the next few days.

    Don't look at the source, BTW, I'm utterly ashamed of it.

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