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IsoHunt has been largely irrelevant in the US for the last several years since they started filtering US IPs[1] and even before then was a pretty poor selection
by aroch 13y ago
IsoHunt has been largely irrelevant in the US for the last several years since they started filtering US IPs[1] and even before then was a pretty poor selection of torrents with many displaying completely incorrect swarm data.
While I'm not personally bothered by this (from the point of view of someone who used IsoHunt) I do find this settlement quite annoying and Dodd to be completely abysmal as a person.
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[1] http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lite-version-100406/ http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-redirects-us-visitors-to-lit...
- mcantelon 13y agoWhat are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.
- Munksgaard 13y agoTPB works fine enough for me.
- dmix 13y agoKickasstorrents is the best atm in my opinion. TPB is good but their legal issues make them unreliable technically and I prefer non-magnet links for use with rtorrent.
- anaphor 13y agortorrent supports magnet links just fine if you're using a recent version (As in one from the past year or two).
- theperson 13y agoFor torrent searching alone, torrentz.eu or bitsnoop. For a community, kickasstorrents.
- cabalamat 13y agohttp://torrentz.eu/ http://torrentz.eu/
- StavrosK 13y agoSo I went to try that site out. Where the hell is the download link?! They're all ads!
- shrikant 13y agoFor legit torrents, using Google doing a "<search term> torrent" might be the best option. For others, use torrentz.eu and Adblock.
- StavrosK 13y agoThanks for the advice. However, all I can find on torrentz.eu are links to other torrent sites. Is it merely an aggregator? I thought they hosted their own torrents, it's less useful if they just send me to thepiratebay anyway.
- shrikant 13y agoAh right -- Torrentz is a meta search engine and doesnt host any torrents. The way I use it is to search for the torrent, and then use the results to pick a torrent site [that appears in the results] to stick with. Then that gets shut down, I head over to Torrentz, run another search, pick another site and so on..
- StavrosK 13y agoAh, I see, that makes sense now. I thought they would host the torrents themselves, but every link that looked like it would be a torrent download was an ad. Your clarification helped, thanks.
- ihuman 13y agoIf you're trying to find anime, I recommend nyaa.se. It's where most fansubbing groups upload torrent files to.
- austinl 13y agohttp://thepiratebay.sx/ http://thepiratebay.sx/ ? I admit their search function is terrible, but it has nearly everything. They've had great uptime for a while now too.
- nano_o 13y agoThere is btdigg.org, which builds its database by crawling the bittorrent distributed hash table.