[aroch]

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-lit...

[mcantelon]

What are better sites for torrent search? I've actually had good luck with ISOhunt.

[dmix]

Kickasstorrents 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]

rtorrent supports magnet links just fine if you're using a recent version (As in one from the past year or two).

[Munksgaard]

TPB works fine enough for me.

[cabalamat]

http://torrentz.eu/

[StavrosK]

So I went to try that site out. Where the hell is the download link?! They're all ads!

[shrikant]

For legit torrents, using Google doing a "<search term> torrent" might be the best option.

For others, use torrentz.eu and Adblock.

[StavrosK]

Thanks 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]

Ah 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..

[ihuman]

If you're trying to find anime, I recommend nyaa.se. It's where most fansubbing groups upload torrent files to.

[theperson]

For torrent searching alone, torrentz.eu or bitsnoop. For a community, kickasstorrents.

[austinl]

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]

There is btdigg.org, which builds its database by crawling the bittorrent distributed hash table.