Vertor.com, short for ‘verified torrents’, is a torrent indexer that takes moderation a bit further than most of its competitors. The site actually downloads every file, to check for viruses, DRM and other inconveniences.
AVG users who wanted to access The Pirate Bay in the last two days found that it was actively blocked by their anti-virus software. The popular torrent indexer contains active threats says AVG, that advises its users not to visit the site.
Just a short update with two little snippets about the semi-private BitTorrent tracker, Demonoid. Don’t have an account? You can get one today.
Asian DVD Club, a private torrent site specializing in, wait for it, Asian content, has disappeared from the ‘net during the last few days. No need to panic though, it will return soon.
For the last days the EZTV website has been inaccessible. Worried TV fans can be reassured though, the site will return as soon as the current hardware issues are resolved.
The Pirate Bay has been inaccessible to millions of people over the last few hours, due to technical problems. There is no need to panic though, as the site is scheduled to be back online soon.
TorrentLeech, one of the largest and longest-standing private BitTorrent trackers, is today celebrating its fifth birthday. Happy birthday TL!
Users of private tracker Torrent-Damage are experiencing difficulties accessing the site right now. The site’s domain name has been suspended and no longer functions. Please read on for more information and details on how to access the site.
Despite the numerous lawsuits that have been targeted at The Pirate Bay, the notorious BitTorrent site welcomed its 4 millionth user last weekend.
Real-time torrent search engine NowTorrents has returned by popular demand. The owner has decided to put the website back online after hundreds of users wrote emails saying they much preferred the old NowTorrents to the new TorrentFly.
During the last month or so, the private tracker Filelist.org has been fairly unreliable due to downtime. Around a week ago something unusual happened to their DNS, but now it seems it may have returned under a new name.
On November 12th, Private Tracker site Scene-Base went offline. The page replaced by a stern warning that the site was down, with a link to the IRC channel. The topic in the channel?
Docs.torrents.ro has been one of the most respected e-learning BitTorrent trackers. The site closed earlier this year due to a financial crisis, but returns now under a new name.
For more than a week already the Pirate Bay has been experiencing downtime due to technical issues. The question on everybody’s mind seems to be, when will things go back to normal?
Torrent sites don’t run on fresh air, they all need some type of funding. Many accept user donations to pay the bills and that’s fair enough. But an admin of one particular site doesn’t know where to draw the line.
Despite many months of setbacks, the CEO of Global Gaming Factory has been adament – the purchase of The Pirate Bay will go ahead. An announcement from the company today indicates this is extremely unlikely.
When a torrent site disappears unexpectedly, many users jump to the conclusion that this could be down to anti-piracy groups. Private site ScL/Clover will be back soon and is quite alright, so don’t panic.
Torrext is a nifty new service that allows users to publish torrent metadata and make it searchable by search engines. The service runs on Google’s App Engine and the code is released into the public domain.
Demonoid, the most prominent and frequently visited private tracker has closed the site for maintenance today. The operators are trying to solve some technical difficulties that have caused problems for several days already.
isoHunt has been one of the leading BitTorrent search engines since 2004. The site has millions of active users, who today find that the site is inaccessible for unknown reasons.
TorrentReactor.net has nested itself among the 5 most visited torrent sites on the Internet, which makes it a lucrative target for hackers and scammers. And indeed, for the second time in recent months TorrentReactor has been compromised and injected with a hidden iframe.
As of today the antivirus program Avast has started blocking The Pirate Bay. When users try to access the site they are warned that the site is ‘malicious’ and denied access. The site came back online earlier today after being shut down by Swedish authorities.
Last week isoHunt updated its indexing code and performed a thorough re-crawl of the indexed sites, resulting in an increase from 1.65 million to 3.49 million torrents. This week the team tackled another problem, namely, how to find the right torrent more effectively.
After we reported on TorrentFreak that an anonymous user had managed to create a backup of The Pirate Bay, yesterday we revealed that the owner of BTArena had put the entire thing online. But the precious torrent comments were missing……
Cheggit.net, one of the more prominent adult BitTorrent sites on the Internet, suddenly disappeared today. But users of the site won’t be left empty-handed for long, as the site should start returning in the next few hours.
Torrent-Outpost, a medium sized private BitTorrent tracker has mysteriously disappeared a few days ago. Initially the site seemed to be struggling with technical issues, but since yesterday the domain redirects to a parked page hosted by Sedo.
Have you ever had your favorite torrent site blocked by filtering software installed at school, at work or at the airport’s network? If so, you might want to bookmark Yauba because it may come in handy in the future.
isoHunt has been one of the leading BitTorrent search engines since 2004. Despite the fact the site’s founder Gary Fung is involved in legal battles with the MPAA as well as the CRIA, the site keeps on expanding and adding more torrents to its index.
Over the last 24 hours The Pirate Bay has been up and down – well to be honest, mostly down.
As usual we’ve had quite a few emails from fans concerned that their favorite torrent site is in trouble, particularly since the site has been locking horns with Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN recently.
In June Global Gaming Factory (GGF) announced that it would acquire The Pirate Bay and turn it into a legal file-sharing site. According to the Swedish company everything is still on schedule, including the required funding.
What will happen to the site once GGF is the official owner is still unclear. However, GGF has scheduled a [...]
Mininova, one of the world’s most visited BitTorrent sites, broke another download record this week with the download counter displaying more than 9 billion downloads. Traffic wise Mininova is the largest BitTorrent index on the Internet with millions of visitors a day.
In common with fellow torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay and isoHunt, Mininova [...]
