BrilliantJeniMost of you know that I currently live in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Because of this, I have no problems downloading from the torrent sites who have been forced to discontinue access for American residents. However, since the majority of my readers are Americans, I thought I would share some great torrent sites that are not (or at least not yet) restricting US access.
- Mininova.org has 190,000 torrents indexed as of April, 2007. Created by the same brilliant folks that started Suprnova, Mininova continues to be one of the largest torrent databases of the Web. http://www.mininova.org
- Torrent portal - http://www.torrentportal.com
- Torrent scan - http://www.torrentscan.com - searches other search engines. Pretty useful stuff.
- Snarf It! http://www.snarfit.com
- Torrentz http://www.torrentz.com
- Legal Torrents - Database of public-domain content. http://www.legaltorrents.co
- Scrape torrent - similar to torrent scan, Scrape torrent is another torrent meta-search engine. http://www.scrapetorrent.com
Prior to the state vs. torrent sites, Torrent Spy was my all-time favorite. Not only did they have the best selection of torrents, but the traffic was so high, there wasn’t much of a wait for comments to clear torrents of virus and trojan potential. Unfortunately, even while I still have access to Torrent Spy here in good ol’ Mexico, the site has not managed to keep up the same quality. Comments are no longer available, downloads are available only through 3rd party sites, and good god- the porn advertisements are just out of control. For years of great service, I bid them a tearful farewell and head toward torrent sites the courts have not yet targeted and wait for the next generation of p2p file sharing.
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