Top 12 Torrent Sites of 2009

At the moment there are several torrent sites that are leading in the way of popularity, but some are being taken down and having to delete illegal files. Here is Crenk’s list of the top torrent sites for 2009.

1. Mininova – Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.
2. Isohunt – Currently in a legal dispute with the Canadian Recording Industry Association, Isohunt is a longtime favorite of P2P users. The community at Isohunt also helps police abuse within their network, and reader comments and votes help to identify those torrents which should be avoided.
3. The Pirate Bay – April 18, 2009: the Stockholm district court has sentenced the four Pirate Bay founders to a year in prison, and over $USD 3.5 million in fines. This is as punishment for violating their country’s copyright laws.
4. Torrentscan – A “meta-search” engine, which is a search engine that searches other search engines
5. YouTorrent – 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.
6. Kickass Torrents – the new player in the market with some great technology and fast indexing.
7. BTJunkie – One of the leading torrent search engines with great syndication across other torrent search sites.
8. Bitsoup – Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders.
9. Alive Torrents – Alive Torrents is a relatively new site. It focuses on torrents that have distinguished themselves as having a solid swarm base and an active readership.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Torrentz – very quick torrent search engine with great indexing.