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Comparison of BitTorrent sites

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There are many different BitTorrent websites, each providing information about files distributed via the BitTorrent protocol. They typically contain multiple torrent files and an index of those files. In a typical scenario, a user would enter such a site and browse or search for the content they desire, based on the torrent descriptions posted at the site by other users. If a torrent with the sought content is found, the user could download that torrent.

Such websites each have different features to facilitate the user's search.

Features

BitTorrent Tracker

BitTorrent sites may operate a BitTorrent Tracker. A tracker provides the site with greater control over user interaction with the content offered by the site. Operating a tracker should not be confused with hosting content.

Directory

A directory allows users to browse the content available on site based on various categories. For example, a directory may let users browse through cookbooks in books section. A directory is also a site like filesharingz.com where users can find websites. In bittorrent case, user can find trackers and bittorrent related site on these directories.

Comments

Some sites let users post comments about files. Comments allow user to gain additional information before deciding to download a file. This is especially useful when dealing with larger files which may take hours or even days to download.

Specialization

BitTorrent sites may either focus on certain content - for example, etree.org focuses on Live Concerts or may have no particular focus, like Mininova. Sites such as torrentz.com are search engines of other torrent sites.

Multi-tracker index

Some sites seek to index and provide a combined listing of torrents found on multiple other torrent index sites.

BitTorrent Search Engines

Some sites, such as NowTorrents search through multiple sites and show results from a few different sites.

Regular Indexer

These are sites like BTJunkie which index content from a few different sites.

There are many different BitTorrent websites, each providing information about files distributed via the BitTorrent protocol. They typically contain multiple torrent files and an index of those files. In a typical scenario, a user would enter such a site and browse or search for the content they desire, based on the torrent descriptions posted at the site by other users. If a torrent with the sought content is found, the user could download that torrent.

Such websites each have different features to facilitate the user's search.

Site comparison

The following table compares the features of various BitTorrent sites. It is by no means exhaustive. Alexa ranking is accurate as of 22 February 2010.

Site Specialization Is a tracker Directory Public RSS One click download Sortable Comments Multi-tracker index Alexa Traffic Rank
AnimeSuki Anime & otaku subculture[1] No Yes[2] Yes Yes Yes Only new torrents No No 6,675 [3]
Anirena Anime & otaku subculture Yes[4] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 33,068 [5]
BakaBT Anime & otaku subculture Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 9,442 [6]
BiteNova No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No 168,445 [7]
BitSoup No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 9,565 [8]
BitTorrent No Yes No Yes No Yes No No No 6,631 [9]
BitToxic.com No Yes Yes [10] semi Yes [11] Yes Yes Yes No 388,733 [12]
BTJunkie No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 380 [13]
BTMon No No Yes[14] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 1,440 [15]
BTScene Metasearch ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 4,874 [16]
BushTorrents No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No 58,143 [17]
CinemaTorrents Film[18] No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 218,143 [19]
ClearBits Legally-redistributable media Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 151,863 [20]
Demonoid No Yes Yes semi Yes Yes Yes Yes No 540 [21]
Entertane Metasearch ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 118,254 [22]
Etree Live Concerts Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 40,226 [23]
Extratorrent No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 829 [24]
Fenopy No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 3,903 [25]
FlixFlux Film[26] No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes 149,058 [27]
Fulldls No No Yes[28] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 4,508 [29]
Gamestorrents Games ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 2,702 [30]
Go-Torrent No ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes 942,337 [31]
iBiblio No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No 8,214 [32]
Immortalseed No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 119,791 [33]
IPTorrents No ? ? No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? 5,616 [34]
IsoHunt No, (Legally-redistributable media within U.S.) [35] No Yes Yes Yes[36] Yes Yes Yes Yes 200 [37]
Jishaku Toshokan Anime & otaku subculture No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 130,161 [38]
JPopsuki J-pop Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No 27,403 [39]
LegitTorrents Legally-redistributable media Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 659,420 [40]
LinuxTracker Linux/open software Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No 174,433 [41]
Megashara No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 5,950 [42]
Mininova Legally-redistributable media No Yes Yes Yes[43] Yes Yes Yes No 1,103 [44]
Monova No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 1,046 [45]
MyBittorrent No No Yes Yes No Yes No Yes Yes 22,247 [46]
NewTorrents No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No 9,216 [47]
NowTorrents No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 13,857 [48]
Nyaatorrents Anime & otaku subculture Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 2,526 [49]
RapidTreggy No ? ? No ? ? ? ? ? 652,121 [50]
RARBG No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 1,972 [51]
Rutracker.org No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 410 [52]
ScaryWater Anime & otaku subculture Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No No 22,907 [53]
ScrapeTorrent No No No Yes No No Yes No No 17,769 [54]
Seedpeer No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 5,972 [55]
ShareReactor No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 12,044 [56]
The Pirate Bay No No[57] Yes[58] Yes Yes Yes Not the top 100 Yes No 99 [59]
Tokyo Toshokan Anime & otaku subculture No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes 4,775 [60]
Toorgle No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 83,443 [61]
Torrent-Finder Other sites No No Yes No No Yes No Yes 4,386 [62]
TorrentLeech No Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No 3,839 [63]
TorrentPond Metasearch ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 25,917 [64]
TorrentPortal No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 4,141 [65]
TorrentReactor No Yes Yes[66] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No 788 [67]
TorrentRoot Metasearch ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 120,724 [68]
TorrentScan Metasearch ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 11,974 [69]
TorrentSpy No ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 85,341 [70]
TorrentTree Metasearch ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 263,383 [71]
Torrentz Metasearch No No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes 169 [72]
TorrentZap No Yes Yes [73] semi Yes [74] Yes Yes Yes No 5,237 [75]
uSniff No No No Yes No No Yes No Yes 24,466 [76]
Vector Extensive filtering ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 1,660 [77]
WiTorrent No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 90,589 [78]
YourBittorrent No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 5,798 [79]
Zoozle No ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? 31,928 [80]
Site Specialization Is a tracker Directory Public RSS One click download Sortable Comments Multi-tracker index Alexa Traffic Rank

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.animesuki.com/doc.php/help/siteguide.html
  2. ^ http://www.animesuki.com/series.php
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ http://www.anirena.com/viewtracker.php
  5. ^ [2]
  6. ^ [3]
  7. ^ [4]
  8. ^ [5]
  9. ^ [6]
  10. ^ http://www.bittoxic.com/index.php?page=torrents
  11. ^ http://www.bittoxic.com/rss.php
  12. ^ [7]
  13. ^ [8]
  14. ^ http://www.btmon.com/browse/
  15. ^ [9]
  16. ^ [10]
  17. ^ [11]
  18. ^ http://cinematorrents.com
  19. ^ [12]
  20. ^ [13]
  21. ^ [14]
  22. ^ [15]
  23. ^ [16]
  24. ^ [17]
  25. ^ [18]
  26. ^ http://www.flixflux.co.uk/faq
  27. ^ [19]
  28. ^ http://www.fulldls.com/browse.php
  29. ^ [20]
  30. ^ [21]
  31. ^ [22]
  32. ^ [23]
  33. ^ [24]
  34. ^ [25]
  35. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsoHunt#End_of_ISOHunt_coming_soon.3F http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/isohunt/ http://www.tomshardware.com/news/isohunt-bittorrent-torrent-pirate-bay-mpaa,10053.html
  36. ^ http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6802
  37. ^ [26]
  38. ^ [27]
  39. ^ [28]
  40. ^ [29]
  41. ^ [30]
  42. ^ [31]
  43. ^ http://www.mininova.org/faq#rss-custom
  44. ^ [32]
  45. ^ [33]
  46. ^ [34]
  47. ^ [35]
  48. ^ [36]
  49. ^ [37]
  50. ^ [38]
  51. ^ [39]
  52. ^ [40]
  53. ^ [41]
  54. ^ [42]
  55. ^ [43]
  56. ^ [44]
  57. ^ http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tracker-shuts-down-for-good-091117/
  58. ^ http://thepiratebay.org/browse
  59. ^ [45]
  60. ^ [46]
  61. ^ [47]
  62. ^ [48]
  63. ^ [49]
  64. ^ [50]
  65. ^ [51]
  66. ^ http://www.torrentreactor.net/browse.php
  67. ^ [52]
  68. ^ [53]
  69. ^ [54]
  70. ^ [55]
  71. ^ [56]
  72. ^ [57]
  73. ^ http://www.torrentzap.com/yesterday
  74. ^ http://www.bittoxic.com/rss/1.xml
  75. ^ [58]
  76. ^ [59]
  77. ^ [60]
  78. ^ [61]
  79. ^ [62]
  80. ^ [63]
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