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MPAA Snags Google Downloading Torrents, Threatens to Disconnect

Exactly a year ago The Pirate Bay team surprised friends and foes when it announced that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker was shutting down for good.

The site’s torrent index would remain online, but millions of users had to find alternative trackers or rely on trackerless technologies to share their torrents from then on.

In addition, The Pirate Bay suggested a move away from .torrent files entirely in the future.

The BitTorrent landscape has changed dramatically in the past 12 months. The two largest BitTorrent trackers today didn’t exist a year ago, and the top tracker of last year has shut down.

The upside is that all these changes went by relatively unnoticed to the millions of downloaders.

Founded in 2003, isoHunt is one of the oldest BitTorrent sites that remains around today. The site has millions of pageviews each day and searches through nearly 5 million torrent files.

At the time of writing isoHunt indexes 4,973,833 torrents, which totals an impressive 10,712 terabytes of data.

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.

There’s a cool torrent available on The Pirate Bay, one of the last cool torrents you’ll encounter on the site (as it’s due to

AgniPulse: "Some of them removed Ubuntu and flatly refused to use it again in future.Some of them used it occasionally to download stuff from torrents and to clean infected USB Drives.Based on their feedback ,I figured out why people(especially of India) are not too keen on using Ubuntu even if it is installed on their computers."