what's the hot torrent site right now?

[T-Wrex]

ive been using torrentspy, but the last couple days their searches have been weak

[The Red Scare]

www.demonoid.com works pretty well for me.

i usually use torrentspy, but demonoid often has stuff that the other doesn't

[Sigma]

http://mininova.org is a good one. Depends what you're looking for though.

[barknee]

Torrentspy & Mininova are definitely the best ones I've found. I use torrentreactor.net sometimes but it's very unreliable and search results seemingly don't load half the time. I think it's basically all about being invited to private torrent sites/forums but fuck knows how you manage that.

[The Red Scare]

"private" torrent sites are just about the stupidest things ever. the whole point of torrents is to have as many people downloading and seeding as possible

[StormShadow]

"private" torrent sites are just about the best things ever.

[Useff]

"private" torrent sites are just about the stupidest things ever. the whole point of torrents is to have as many people downloading and seeding as possible

A lot of people leech and then get off the torrent so they upload as little as possible, though.

[The Red Scare]

"private" torrent sites are just about the best things ever.

please explain.

i think that's okay for a site to require user registration, so it can track the upload/download ratios of its members, but to only allow access through private invitations is absurd. The bittorrent community would be much more vibrant if everyone openly shared and advertised their torrents. Otherwise you have tons of small, identitcal torrents that are unneedlessly slow.

You can still protect against leechers without creating private, elitist torrent clubs

[StormShadow]

"private" torrent sites are just about the best things ever.

please explain.

i think that's okay for a site to require user registration, so it can track the upload/download ratios of its members, but to only allow access through private invitations is absurd. The bittorrent community would be much more vibrant if everyone openly shared and advertised their torrents. Otherwise you have tons of small, identitcal torrents that are unneedlessly slow.

How big does the shit have to be? When I was a wdma member they had like 30,000 members. I mean, that's plenty. And that was a closed group because they wanted to keep unnecessary chatter about the site to a minimum so that the spot wouldn't get blown, which of course it did. Basically if you close registration there's less chance of heat being brought down and the fun ending. Same reason MP3X is 'exclusive.'

[Noah]

Private torrent sites are good.

I'm a member of OiNK.

Only relatively responsible people get invited. There are 45 thousand of us there.

You can request stuff you can't find on other torrent sites. With 45k users you will almost undoubtedly be able to find something other sites don't have.

There's a huge emphasis placed on having an excellent ratio, so people will do their best to upload equal or more than what they have received.

It works very well. How many times have you been at a public torrent site and seen a file you want, only to find that there's no one seeding it?

One time I got this movie at a public site and all the other seeders just jumped ship as soon as I got it. There were still 5 leechers so I stuck it out for days, with my 20kB/s upload rate until a few of them completed. Of course they jumped ship too. Eventually I just gave up because it was pointless, and obvious that no one wanted to give back. The entire time, I was thinking, this would not happen on a private site.

[The Red Scare]

"private" torrent sites are just about the best things ever.

please explain.

i think that's okay for a site to require user registration, so it can track the upload/download ratios of its members, but to only allow access through private invitations is absurd. The bittorrent community would be much more vibrant if everyone openly shared and advertised their torrents. Otherwise you have tons of small, identitcal torrents that are unneedlessly slow.

How big does the shit have to be? When I was a wdma member they had like 30,000 members. I mean, that's plenty. And that was a closed group because they wanted to keep unnecessary chatter about the site to a minimum so that the spot wouldn't get blown, which of course it did. Basically if you close registration there's less chance of heat being brought down and the fun ending. Same reason MP3X is 'exclusive.'

MP3X was made private mostly because leechers were destroying all the uploads... I don't think it was so much because of questions of illegality, though I think at some point that would have become an issue.

The whole idea behind torrents is that the more people are downloading and seeding, the faster downloads will be for everyone.

Torrent websites don't actually host a file, they simply track existing torrents. So a single torrent can, and should, be advertised in a number of places. Private torrent sites prevent this from happening.

[StormShadow]

"private" torrent sites are just about the best things ever.

please explain.

i think that's okay for a site to require user registration, so it can track the upload/download ratios of its members, but to only allow access through private invitations is absurd. The bittorrent community would be much more vibrant if everyone openly shared and advertised their torrents. Otherwise you have tons of small, identitcal torrents that are unneedlessly slow.

How big does the shit have to be? When I was a wdma member they had like 30,000 members. I mean, that's plenty. And that was a closed group because they wanted to keep unnecessary chatter about the site to a minimum so that the spot wouldn't get blown, which of course it did. Basically if you close registration there's less chance of heat being brought down and the fun ending. Same reason MP3X is 'exclusive.'

MP3X was made private mostly because leechers were destroying all the uploads... I don't think it was so much because of questions of illegality, though I think at some point that would have become an issue.

Yeah, but that's because the file sharing on philaflava is assbackwards. Yousendit et al are stoneage. I know why we do it that way, but still. As for everything else, refer to what Noah just wrote. And I guarantee I get better download/upload rates at my current torrent site than I would at any public one.

[The Red Scare]

please explain.

i think that's okay for a site to require user registration, so it can track the upload/download ratios of its members, but to only allow access through private invitations is absurd. The bittorrent community would be much more vibrant if everyone openly shared and advertised their torrents. Otherwise you have tons of small, identitcal torrents that are unneedlessly slow.

How big does the shit have to be? When I was a wdma member they had like 30,000 members. I mean, that's plenty. And that was a closed group because they wanted to keep unnecessary chatter about the site to a minimum so that the spot wouldn't get blown, which of course it did. Basically if you close registration there's less chance of heat being brought down and the fun ending. Same reason MP3X is 'exclusive.'

MP3X was made private mostly because leechers were destroying all the uploads... I don't think it was so much because of questions of illegality, though I think at some point that would have become an issue.

Yeah, but that's because the file sharing on philaflava is assbackwards. Yousendit et al are stoneage. I know why we do it that way, but still. As for everything else, refer to what Noah just wrote. And I guarantee I get better download/upload rates at my current torrent site than I would at any public one.

Alright, I've never been a member of a private torrent site, so I'll take your word on it. Now how does one go about getting invited to one of these?

[Useff]

I can vouch for private/register-to-use sites being great.

They're great.

[Faceless]

Private torrent sites are good.

I'm a member of OiNK.

Only relatively responsible people get invited. There are 45 thousand of us there.

You can request stuff you can't find on other torrent sites. With 45k users you will almost undoubtedly be able to find something other sites don't have.

There's a huge emphasis placed on having an excellent ratio, so people will do their best to upload equal or more than what they have received.

It works very well. How many times have you been at a public torrent site and seen a file you want, only to find that there's no one seeding it?

One time I got this movie at a public site and all the other seeders just jumped ship as soon as I got it. There were still 5 leechers so I stuck it out for days, with my 20kB/s upload rate until a few of them completed. Of course they jumped ship too. Eventually I just gave up because it was pointless, and obvious that no one wanted to give back. The entire time, I was thinking, this would not happen on a private site.

The only problem I have with Oink is that it's tough to actually upload anything that anyone wants anymore (edit: not counting that new shit of course. but you know how quick everyone jumps on those). There are not enough leechers which makes it tough to get your ratio up. After DL'ing I would leave stuff up for weeks on end but there still wasn't much UL activity. I don't see how I'll ever get back to my 1:1. I think I'm at .8 something right now.

Whatever happened to the part of the site where you could look up stats for the site? - top DL'd torrents, best seeded/worst seeded, etc.

*DL speeds are great though. Can't complain about that.

[Noah]

Private torrent sites are good.

I'm a member of OiNK.

Only relatively responsible people get invited. There are 45 thousand of us there.

You can request stuff you can't find on other torrent sites. With 45k users you will almost undoubtedly be able to find something other sites don't have.

There's a huge emphasis placed on having an excellent ratio, so people will do their best to upload equal or more than what they have received.

It works very well. How many times have you been at a public torrent site and seen a file you want, only to find that there's no one seeding it?

One time I got this movie at a public site and all the other seeders just jumped ship as soon as I got it. There were still 5 leechers so I stuck it out for days, with my 20kB/s upload rate until a few of them completed. Of course they jumped ship too. Eventually I just gave up because it was pointless, and obvious that no one wanted to give back. The entire time, I was thinking, this would not happen on a private site.

The only problem I have with Oink is that it's tough to actually upload anything that anyone wants anymore (edit: not counting that new shit of course. but you know how quick everyone jumps on those). There are not enough leechers which makes it tough to get your ratio up. After DL'ing I would leave stuff up for weeks on end but there still wasn't much UL activity. I don't see how I'll ever get back to my 1:1. I think I'm at .8 something right now.

Whatever happened to the part of the site where you could look up stats for the site? - top DL'd torrents, best seeded/worst seeded, etc.

*DL speeds are great though. Can't complain about that.

If you have a lot of CDs you can remedy this. Upload discographies, upload things at higher bitrates, check the requests to see if people want anything you have, etc.

If you can find a lot of different torrents of an artists' work, and can form a discography from that, it is likely that people will download it. It worked for me. I've got about 6GB up and 1GB down. I haven't been very active lately, but I was invited about 2 weeks ago, maybe 3.

I was a member a long time ago thanks to curiouscharles, I think, but I got banned because back then I downloaded a lot and thought I would "get to the uploading later" and a week after that I was toast.

[Sigma]

"private" torrent sites are just about the best things ever.

please explain.

i think that's okay for a site to require user registration, so it can track the upload/download ratios of its members, but to only allow access through private invitations is absurd. The bittorrent community would be much more vibrant if everyone openly shared and advertised their torrents. Otherwise you have tons of small, identitcal torrents that are unneedlessly slow.

You can still protect against leechers without creating private, elitist torrent clubs

I think there's a few reasons. The 1:1 ratio is one. Fake torrents is another. They get put up by people trying to add strain to the tracker and waste people's bandwidth. I download US TV shows that I can't get over here in the UK and a few times I've been caught out with fakes. Also, there are plenty of anti-piracy companies tracking torrents. If a new movie appears on Mininova and you download it while using Peer Guardian, then you'll see how many dodgy IPs are blocked. This doesn't seem to happen anywhere near as much on private trackers.

Torrent websites don't actually host a file, they simply track existing torrents. So a single torrent can, and should, be advertised in a number of places. Private torrent sites prevent this from happening.

Private torrent websites usually require registration because they have their own tracker. A site like Mininova has no tracker - it's just a dumping ground for torrents and without the other tracker sites it wouldn't exist. Mininova recommend using Mongo56 as a tracker. That site requires no registration, but they are one of the worst for fake files. They're also constantly bombarded with denial of service attacks in an attempt to try and shut them down. On their blog it says if they can't sort that out they're gonna close the site on December 1st. Also, running a tracker where copyritten material is being shared is illegal. Registration free sites are always going to attract more traffic and attention from the authorities.

[rakesh1]

I can vouch for private/register-to-use sites being great.

They're great.

agreed

[dudley dawson]

somebody hook me up with some ultimate hustler episodes.

[goider]

67up 42down

i gave away about 6 oink invites to , but they all fucked around and got banned within 2 weeks, so i won't be doing it anymore...but oink is great

[Noah]

67up 42down

i gave away about 6 oink invites to , but they all fucked around and got banned within 2 weeks, so i won't be doing it anymore...but oink is great

Yeah I was one of those fuckups. Thanks for giving me a taste of the good life, though. This encouraged me to go back and reapply and actually MAKE SOMETHING OF MYSELF THERE

[T-Wrex]

I'd like a privite invite somewhere..

I'm a member at PureTNA's porno torrent site and I keep my ratio at 1.5+:1 always (just incase there's a high seeded low / leeched file i wanna grab)..

So, I know I can keep a good ratio elsewhere..

[SuperFeen]

Oink is great, tons of hard to find music, and they even got EBooks. TVTorrents.com is also much appreciated, but if I wanna get a movie I use torrentspy just cuz I don't know of any good movie sites.

[Beek]

Yeah, I got banned from Oink because I just didn't use my account.

Thanks for the opportunity though curiouscharles

Hopefully I can find another private torrent site opportunity somewhere

[curiouscharles]

Yeah, I got banned from Oink because I just didn't use my account.

Thanks for the opportunity though curiouscharles

Hopefully I can find another private torrent site opportunity somewhere

i warned ppl when i invited them to take advantage of that site and use it well :/ sry to hear that beek.