

The P2P civil lawsuits are a criminal offense and can cause an emotional and financial burden on the defendants.įurthermore, your ISP can release the history of all your upload and download activities to copyright plaintiffs. Such lawsuits are targeted at a group of users or individuals as per discretion. In case if you upload any of these copyrighted files, definitely you are at risk of a civil lawsuit in countries including the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia to name a few.

The end-user shall be solely responsible for media accessed through any service or app referenced on such Websites.īefore we proceed further, please note that P2P File Sharing is a legal process as a majority of the shared files are copyrighted and this technology shall only be used to stream movies or TV shows that fall under the public domain. org domain doesn’t approve the illegal sharing of any copyrighted content. The past year has been relatively quiet for the notorious torrent site, which is currently operating from its original. The Pirate Bay is the “king of torrents” once again and also the oldest site in this list. In addition, we include last year’s ranking. The list is based on various traffic reports and we display the Alexa rank for each. The torrent site generates enough traffic to warrant a listing, but we traditionally limit the list to sites that are targeted primarily at an English or international audience.īelow is the full list of the ten most-visited torrent sites at the start of the new year. As Torrentz2’s future is uncertain, we added an extra site (10.1) as compensation.įinally, RuTracker also deserves a mention. We decided to include the site nonetheless, given its history and because it’s still possible to find hashes through the site. A few weeks ago all links to externally hosted torrents were removed, as was the list of indexed pages. The unofficial Torrentz reincarnation, the highest newcomer last year, is somewhat of an unusual entry. TorrentProject also disappeared without a trace and the same was true for isohunt.to. And it wasn’t the only site that went away. Last year’s runner-up Extratorrent, for example, has shut down and left a gaping hole behind. While many people are happy to see new torrent sites emerge, this often means that others have called it quits.

The list also includes various newcomers including Idope and Zooqle. The site has weathered a few storms over the years, but it looks like it will be able to celebrate its 15th anniversary, which is coming up in a few months. The Pirate Bay remains the undisputed number one. Now, at the start of 2018, we take a look to see what the most-used sites are in the current landscape. Torrent sites have come and gone over past year. The 2021 list of top torrent sites is online now.
