The Top 35 Torrent Sites of 2008

1. Isohunt.com In a shocking turn of the tables this September, the Isohunt webmaster is
counter-suing the Canadian music industry. He is claiming that previous copyright violation
suits against him were unfounded, and that he is entitled to have his legal expenses
recovered. Read the entire story at www.isohunt.com.

2. Demonoid.com is back online! After legal conflicts in April of 2008, they have reestablished
themselves outside of the USA, and have resumed torrent operations. Demonoid is still a
private community, and members are held liable for any leeching that their invited friends do
in this community. If you are lucky enough to get a Demonoid membership, invite your friends
carefully, lest you lose your own membership.

3. BiteNova (formerly known as “Bi-Torrents”, BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look
and fast searching format.)

4. Bitsoup Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders. As the trend towards private
torrent sharing continues, you will need to signup and join as a member to participate in the
Bitsoup swarm.

5. Torrentportal.com

6. The Pirate Bay (Pirate Bay, by readership size, is the most popular torrent search site today.
Pirate Bay has an immense database of 600,000+ torrents, arguably the largest database at
this time.)

7. YouTorrent.com Still in beta testing format, this new torrent site claims to be the largest
legal torrent search engine today. Accordingly, the result sets are much smaller than the
"pirate" counterparts, but definitely try this site for yourself.

8. Torrentz.com (special thanks to reader, Jonathan R., for this link)

9. Torrentscan.com (a "meta-search" engine, which is a search engine that searches other

search engines)

10. Torrentmatrix.com

11. Torrents.to
12. FileMP3.org

13. Mininova.org Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases
of the Web.

14. Torrentspy.com March 24, 2008: Torrentspy has voluntarily closed its doors. Instead of
conforming to the American court mandates to change their privacy policies, the Torrentspy
team has opted instead to cease operations. A sad day for downloaders everywhere.

15. Torrentbox.com FYI: like Isohunt, Torrentbox is being sued by the MPAA as of February 28,
2006. The days for this fine search engine may be numbered.

16. BTjunkie

17. Torrentreactor.to (Torrentreactor has made a comeback from a hijacking and an

uncooperative hosting service. They have moved to a different server setup and a Tonga
country domain outside the USA. Read the details on their home page.)

18. TorrentTyphoon.com (this database is up for sale, if anyone is interested in running a

torrent service)

19. Yotoshi.com

20. Snarf It! (currently offline finding a new home)

21. TorrentBytes.net

22. Meganova.org

23. ByTorrents Meta Search

(recently hacked)

24. Thinktorrent.com (currently offline)

25. Torrent-damage.net

26. FullDLS.com
27. Torrentlocomotive (special thanks to Juan C. for this submission)

28. Scrapetorrent.com is another torrent meta-search engine that is gaining popularity.

29. bittorrent.com (the official Torrent website by Bram Cohen, the designer of the Python
BitTorrent format.)

30. FileList.org

31. Fenopy (formerly Bitoogle.com) (the 'original' bittorrent search engine, which has now
morphed into a metasearch engine. The results from your Bitoogle searches will point to
various other torrent search sites. This site has been redirected recently.)

32. BTbot.com (this site has been intimidated into listing fewer and fewer current torrents. The
administrator was likely spooked by the recent wave of lawsuits against Isohunt and Pirate
Bay)

33. Special mention: Torrents.co.uk (This British site has changed hands lately)

34. Special mention: LokiTorrent.com (In a precedent-setting MPAA civil law suit, Loki has
been shut down by court order as of Feb 10, 2005. To add insult to injury, the MPAA left a
trashy saber-rattling message at the lokitorrent home page in an attempt to intimidate other
P2P users. P2P users everywhere are mourning the loss of this excellent service, and the MPAA
is estranging even more Internet users with its heavy-handed campaign.)

35. Special mention: Commonbits.com (This new beta search site is dedicated to media on
progressive political content: audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files. This is a
place for activists to share their message, and for people to learn about other political choices.
Unfortunately, the owners have had to move the site because of legal/financial pressures. We
hope to see it back soon.)