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There are plenty of ways to discover new content on BitTorrent, but searching is still the preferred method for most people.

What they are searching for should therefore give a good picture of what the latest trends are. Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010, a list of the 100 most searched for phrases and keywords on one of the most used public BitTorrent indexes this year.

Every year Google and other search engines produce a year’s end list of the most searched for phrases and keywords.

Last week movie studio Eyeworks won its lawsuit against Dutch Usenet community FTD.

In the verdict, Judge Chris Hensen ruled that by allowing users to talk about a movie’s location on Usenet, FTD was effectively publishing the movie as if they had actually hosted it on their own servers.

RLSLOG has grown out to be the authority when it comes to news about, and links to, scene releases.

Millions of readers visit the site every month, looking for the latest releases that are posted daily by the site’s editors.

Earlier, Dutch movie studio Eyeworks applied for a court injunction to stop Usenet community FTD from “making available to the public” their movie Komt een vrouw bij de dokter (A Woman At The Doctor).

For the music and movie industries, the blocking of file-sharing websites and/or the filtering of links they carry is fast becoming a fashionable weapon of choice.

Perhaps the most famous example was the assault on Mininova, which culminated in the site having to remove huge numbers of torrents which may (or indeed may not) point to copyright content.

When GGF announced that it would take over The Pirate Bay, the company bombarded the press with optimistic plans which indicated the site would become the largest online media store. The attention later shifted to the troublesome financial position of its CEO, but all along the company had confidence in its plans for the new and ‘legal’ Pirate Bay.

For the first time in five years Mininova is about to disappear from the top 10 of most visited torrent sites.

This exit is due to a traffic drop that resulted from the removal of most of the site’s torrents following a lost court battle.

Newcomer KickassTorrents is still gaining momentum and has already surpassed Mininova in terms of traffic.