What Torrent sites are people using?

[Death Metal Moe]

I had a Demonoid account, until the fucking website went down. Pirate Bay doesn't load some days. Mininova is usually not that helpful.

Just curious if anyone has a "Go to" torrent site they us now. If you're not comfortable posting about it in the thread please feel free to PM me the site in the website here.

This thread isn't asking for any specific files or promoting file sharing, keep it that way. I just want a discussion about the sites which aren't illegal.

[paulisded]

I primarily stick to live bootleg sites, but as I stated in another thread I do use what.cd for pre-release material.

[Seinfez]

whats the deal with torrent sites? who are these people?

[biggestmexi]

I had a Demonoid account, until the fucking website went down. Pirate Bay doesn't load some days. Mininova is usually not that helpful.

Just curious if anyone has a "Go to" torrent site they us now. If you're not comfortable posting about it in the thread please feel free to PM me the site in the website here.

This thread isn't asking for any specific files or promoting file sharing, keep it that way. I just want a discussion about the sites which aren't illegal.

we could text droid budday.....

[MisterSmith]

Since Demonoid crashed I have been using isohunt.com. They have been pretty solid and usually have what I am looking for.

Besides Piratebay being hit-or-miss for loading, they seem to have a lot more "hijacking adds" than I have experienced in the past. They are usually caught by my AV, but it is still a pain in the ass since I have to break contact mid-search.

[topless_mike]

torrentpond

[Space Edge]

demonoid is probably going to be back soon the tracker is online and functioning but the site is still down.

Personally I wouldn't touch a public tracker , try and get on a private trackers they rule! Trackers like minivoa, piratebay, torrentreactor, and even demonid to a extent suck they aren't that secure. I know lots of people that have gotten letters from their ISP about p2p use after using these sites. Private trackers tend to be more on the down low.

Also if your using one of the big sites like Minivoa or Piratebay you really don't have to look around for other sites because they use multiple trackers on their torrents. Also use Peer Guardian to cover your ass.

[Willmore]

isohunt.com

[underdog]

What everyone else said about isohunt.com.

Unless I'm looking for certain XM & Sirius shows, then there's another site I go to.

[Death Metal Moe]

What everyone else said about isohunt.com.

Unless I'm looking for certain XM & Sirius shows, then there's another site I go to.

I know that one already.

::wink wink::

[Space Edge]

what site is that :dry:

[boosterp]

isohunt and bitsoup when feeling brave. I really miss Demonoid.

[opie's twisted balls]

torrentz

[ihaveabadmonkey]

btjunkie.org and isohunt.com

not that i would ever download anything illegally

[Fallon]

I use tedsfilesharingemporium.tv

[Slumbag]

isohunt and bitsoup when feeling brave. I really miss Demonoid.

IF I downloaded stuff, which I never would, I would probably say that bitsoup is the best.

I would speculate that it downloads faster than Isohunt.

[KingGeno]

Regardless of which site you use, I highly recommend you install PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/), and make sure you select Government, P2P, maybe Ads, unblock HTTP (only use when browsing to sites you are unsure of), and set it to auto-update daily.

It is a VERY good program, and will protect your computer from allowing connections from goverments ip ranges, millions of known detactor ip's and trackers (such as law offices), etc. It's legit and runs fantastic.

[MHasegawa]

Regardless of which site you use, I highly recommend you install PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/), and make sure you select Government, P2P, maybe Ads, unblock HTTP (only use when browsing to sites you are unsure of), and set it to auto-update daily.

It is a VERY good program, and will protect your computer from allowing connections from goverments ip ranges, millions of known detactor ip's and trackers (such as law offices), etc. It's legit and runs fantastic.

Is that the new Peer Guardian??

[KingGeno]

Is that the new Peer Guardian??

Yes, the successor.

[biggestmexi]

i havent checked with them in a while......did they ever get a 64-bit one?

[KingGeno]

i havent checked with them in a while......did they ever get a 64-bit one?

I'm running 64-bit right now. There is one installer for both 32 and 64.

[TooLowBrow]

You might have noticed all the new magnet icons everywhere?

These are "magnet links", a link that lets you download a torrent directly in your BitTorrent client, instead of your browser. Most clients supports this (uTorrent, Vuze, rtorrent, whatever) and will get the relevant torrent data over the DHT network.

And DHT? It's a de-centralized peer to peer network that all modern clients join by default, even if they are currently not downloading any torrents. DHT can help you find peers and metadata when you choose to start a torrent download.



You might also have noticed that the tracker has been down lately? And that the upload page don't recommend trackers anymore! The development of DHT has reached a stage where a tracker is no longer needed to use a torrent. DHT (combined with PEX) is highly effective in finding peers without the need for a centralized service. If you run uTorrent you might have noticed in the tracker tab of your torrents that the [Peer Exchange] (PEX) row is often reporting a lot more peers than the trackers you might have for that torrent. These peers all came to you without the use of a central tracker service! This is what we consider to be the future. Faster and more stability for the users because there is no central point to rely upon.


Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It's the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well.

By moving to a more decentralized system of handling tracking (DHT+PEX) and distributions of torrent files (Magnet Links), BitTorrent will become less vulnerable to downtime and outages:

* With decentralized peer acquisition, there is no central tracker that can be down.
* With decentralized fetching of metadata (torrents) we don't need to rely on a single server that stores and distributes torrent files.

(Before you tech geeks out there start complaining about the info_hash in the magnet links being in HEX ("isn't it supposed to be in base32?") - No! According to the BitTorrent specification it should be in HEX but the client may choose to also support the old base32 encoding. If your client doesn't support the HEX encoding, please upgrade to the latest version of you client! If it still doesn't work, send an email to the developers of your client and ask them to add support for it.)

This is the future. And the present.
what does this mean

[Space Edge]

what does this mean

It means turn on DHT in your torrent program and it will allow you to download stuff with out the site running a tracker.

[Space Edge]

There is a really good popular private tracker that has open invites for the rest of the weekend PM for the address.

[hanso]

I know of this site & back Space on this.
Just don't hit & run/leech. They ban fast for that.

[LordJezo]

www.google.com

Really.

The sites have been sucking lately, I just search for whatever on Google, add the word "torrent" to the end of it, and hope for the best. Something will fill the gap eventually, but until then it's all I have.

[Space Edge]

www.google.com

Really.

The sites have been sucking lately, I just search for whatever on Google, add the word "torrent" to the end of it, and hope for the best. Something will fill the gap eventually, but until then it's all I have.

Or join a private tracker where they keep the riff-raff out, scene groups release their caps directly to the site, torrents stay seeded otherwise people get kicked to the curb with out a warning and you don't have to worry about the garbage that is attached with a public tracker.

[Space Edge]

that other site people mentioned earlier in the thread came back online around 1:30am this morning.

[yojimbo7248]

yep, my favorite torrent site, demonoid, is back up.

[Death Metal Moe]

yep, my favorite torrent site, demonoid, is back up.

Just saw that and shed a little tear, so happy to have them back. Haven't searched for anything yet so not sure of what is actually on there right now, but it's awesome to have them back at all.

[biggestmexi]

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[yojimbo7248]

Just saw that and shed a little tear, so happy to have them back. Haven't searched for anything yet so not sure of what is actually on there right now, but it's awesome to have them back at all.


me, too, Moe. I really missed them. just yesterday I heard about a new band and felt that pang knowing I couldn't just go to demonoid to listen. Now I can, it has been a fun morning

[biggestmexi]

get it while its hot people.

[TheMojoPin]

It's a Christmas miracle!

[IMSlacker]

If anyone has a spare demonoid invite laying around that they'd like to share, I'd really appreciate it.

[biggestmexi]

If anyone has a spare demonoid invite laying around that they'd like to share, I'd really appreciate it.

hhhmmmmm

were you one of the people that posted a lot of youttube vids in the OG MPW thread?

Im sure someone else here will drop you one.

[TheMojoPin]

I have a Demonoid account but I've never sent out invites. How do I do so or know that I even have any to share?

[biggestmexi]

I have a Demonoid account but I've never sent out invites. How do I do so or know that I even have any to share?

just go to your account

you will have some to send out.

[IMSlacker]

I think I posted few if any. I can't remember.

[biggestmexi]

:dry:

[TheMojoPin]

OK, I think I figured out the invites. PM me if you want one and I'll give them out while I can. Just be sure to keep up an acceptable ratio.

[biggestmexi]

OK, I think I figured out the invites. PM me if you want one and I'll give them out while I can. Just be sure to keep up an acceptable ratio.

whats yours?

[TheMojoPin]

1.36.

[biggestmexi]

1.36.

nice.

Uploaded: 675.43 GB
Downloaded: 494.31 GB
Ratio: 1.37 (Updated once a day)
there

and

Ratio: 3.687 Uploaded: 29.522 GB Downloaded: 8.006 GB
torrentday

[TheMojoPin]

I always said you were the giving type.

[biggestmexi]

:lol:

[KingGeno]

I've found torrentzap.com (http://www.torrentzap.com/) recently, and it is very much like mininova. It's been working weel, with great speeds and lots of seeds.'

But you are really dumb if you don't run Peer Block.

[hanso]

I've found torrentzap.com (http://www.torrentzap.com/) recently, and it is very much like mininova. It's been working weel, with great speeds and lots of seeds.'

But you are really dumb if you don't run Peer Block.

Esp. public trackers , but any tracker or just to have it.
http://www.peerblock.com/ those that use pg2 I think they changed to this.

[yojimbo7248]

If anyone needs a demonoid invitation, PM me

[TheMojoPin]

If anyone needs a demonoid invitation, PM me

Same here.

[west milly Tom]

Goofy question here. My friend has all of a sudden not been able to dl. The trackers load the seeds/peers show but the file itself will not go just stays at 0%. Does this have something to do with this ratio I keep hearing about? can anyone help?

[opie's twisted balls]

^^Has he called his ISP? Any chance he's downloaded a lot and is over the monthly threshold?

[west milly Tom]

^^Has he called his ISP? Any chance he's downloaded a lot and is over the monthly threshold?

nah he's just learned that seeds are often misreported and that the availability number is very low which apparently means the torrent died. what a bitch. Public trackers eat dick.

[KingModem]

Used to use Mininova. Now using www.EZTV.IT (when available) or www.btjunkie.org to find the torrents and uTorrent application for download. Things are getting tougher it seems! :thumbdown:

[paulisded]

nah he's just learned that seeds are often misreported and that the availability number is very low which apparently means the torrent died. what a bitch. Public trackers eat dick.

All torrents die eventually.

[Contra]

All torrents die eventually.

That's deep

[Space Edge]

I got a really good one for TV shows just hit me up with a PM I'll give you a link, Just a heads up they are very very very strict.

[deliciousV]

If anybody has an invite for funfile could you pm me. I've had one for a long time and maintained my stats, but I went a couple of months without logging on and they musta zapped my account, that's all I can figure anyway, because it's gone.

[Crippler]

Regardless of which site you use, I highly recommend you install PeerBlock (http://www.peerblock.com/), and make sure you select Government, P2P, maybe Ads, unblock HTTP (only use when browsing to sites you are unsure of), and set it to auto-update daily.

It is a VERY good program, and will protect your computer from allowing connections from goverments ip ranges, millions of known detactor ip's and trackers (such as law offices), etc. It's legit and runs fantastic.

Question for you folks that are more web-savvy than myself...I recently got around to purchasing a Windows 7 laptop & installed PeerBlock. I noticed that it no longer includes a "Government" list when I check for updates. The lists now are Ads, Educational, P2P, & Spyware.

Basically my question is, am I still safe using just PeerBlock? Has anyone had any trouble with the Windows7 version? Anyone received any of those old pesky letters from your ISP about what you've been downloading?

[hanso]

If anybody has an invite for funfile could you pm me. I've had one for a long time and maintained my stats, but I went a couple of months without logging on and they musta zapped my account, that's all I can figure anyway, because it's gone.

The same thing happened to me.

Question for you folks that are more web-savvy than myself...I recently got around to purchasing a Windows 7 laptop & installed PeerBlock. I noticed that it no longer includes a "Government" list when I check for updates. The lists now are Ads, Educational, P2P, & Spyware.

Basically my question is, am I still safe using just PeerBlock? Has anyone had any trouble with the Windows7 version? Anyone received any of those old pesky letters from your ISP about what you've been downloading?

"Gov" list - which contained governmental IP addresses - was merged into the "P2P"
http://www.peerblock.com/docs/faq#gov_list

I went on nasa site just now to test mine. Then found that nasa is on the list.

[Rawkus]

When i'm at home i use a demonoid account but i've heard really good stuff about xtremespeeds.net. These are both membership sites though.

At school though i'm behind a fire wall so i use megaupload, mediafire, rapidshare and everyother file hosting site there is. Does anyone use these? Theres no need to upload and as long as you can find the file, theres no need for seeders.

[StanUpshaw]

When i'm at home i use a demonoid account but i've heard really good stuff about xtremespeeds.net. These are both membership sites though.

At school though i'm behind a fire wall so i use megaupload, mediafire, rapidshare and everyother file hosting site there is. Does anyone use these? Theres no need to upload and as long as you can find the file, theres no need for seeders.

The file hosts are fine for incidental use, but I could never rely on them for the bulk of my downloading. File size limits, captcha, wait periods...it's a real pain in the ass. Not to mention finding links is an ordeal by itself. Plenty of malicious sites out there waiting to bite you in the ass.

As far as torrents, a private tracker is the only way to go. Keep your eyes open (http://www.google.com/search?q=private+tracker+blog) for registration periods and find a place you like.

All things considered, however, I recommend switching to Usenet and never looking back.

[Reynolds]

Anyone have a good one for an ebook site?

Ill trade for a bitgamer invite.

[OGC]

Anyone having any luck logging on to demonoid lately ? I haven't been able to for at least a few days.

[StanUpshaw]

Anyone have a good one for an ebook site?

Ill trade for a bitgamer invite.

Try this one on for size.

http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/

also, since I'll never forgo an opportunity to pimp usenet, check out the availability on alt.binaries.e-book.technical (http://www.binsearch.info/browse.php?bg=alt.binaries.e-book.technical&all=1)

Anyone having any luck logging on to demonoid lately ? I haven't been able to for at least a few days.

No luck for me either.

[biggestmexi]

Anyone having any luck logging on to demonoid lately ? I haven't been able to for at least a few days.

Yeah. It is pissing me off.

[hanso]

Global Gaming Factory To Buy and Legalize Demonoid

"Global Gaming Factory’s planned acquisition of The Pirate Bay last summer surprised BitTorrent’s friends and foes alike. Eventually the deal didn’t go through due to financial problems, but after a few months of silence the company’s CEO returns to the stage. This time around there’s a new target for his ambitious plans, Demonoid, the largest semi-private BitTorrent community."





http://torrentfreak.com/ggf-plans-to-buy-and-legalize-demonoid-100820/

[Snacks]

has anyone used fenopy? any good?

what about ip blockers any good ones out there that dont slow you down? i just dont understand how they work to completely keep your ip private. i tried a free trial one once and it slowed my web browsing down.

[StanUpshaw]

has anyone used fenopy? any good?

what about ip blockers any good ones out there that dont slow you down? i just dont understand how they work to completely keep your ip private. i tried a free trial one once and it slowed my web browsing down.

It's not likely that you'll find a service that will allow you to route all your traffic through their servers at full speed and not charge you for their trouble.

Read this (http://lifehacker.com/5617891/five-ways-to-download-torrents-anonymously).

[Snacks]

It's not likely that you'll find a service that will allow you to route all your traffic through their servers at full speed and not charge you for their trouble.

Read this (http://lifehacker.com/5617891/five-ways-to-download-torrents-anonymously).

very interesting read. no mention of peerblock?!

so which do you use or how do you go about things with torrents/downloading?

[StanUpshaw]

very interesting read. no mention of peerblock?!

so which do you use or how do you go about things with torrents/downloading?

PeerBlock/PeerGuardian do what they promise. They block any connections from known problem IPs. That last part is where it gets tricky. The people who want to hurt you/catch you can get new IPs. This makes PB/PG a foolish choice for protection.

As always, I recommend avoiding torrents if at all possible, and getting a Usenet subscription instead.

[Space Edge]

Buy accesses to a Seed Box you will never worry about speeds or peerblock bs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_box

There are a bunch of providers out there shop around you can find one for cheap.