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Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Top 20 Less Known BitTorrent Sites

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We all know about mininova, The Pirate Bay and Torrentz, but what few know is that there are a host of less known torrent sites that also have some great, and sometimes rare, content. Here are 20 of these less known torrent sites.
So what is “Less Known”? Well, we used the Alexa ranking as our criteria, all the sites in this list are not in the top 5000 (5000 most visited sites on the Internet). The order of the sites is random, and the list includes some meta search engines as well.
Do you know a relatively unknown public BitTorrent site that should be in this list? Put it in the comments.
12. nova9.org

ExtraTorrent Celebrates 5th Anniversary

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The site has come a long way since it launched in the fall of 2006, and is currently one of the few well moderated torrent sites out there.
ExtraTorrent’s owner told TorrentFreak that the site’s users generate 250 million page views and download 50 million torrents a month.
Most users come from the US, followed by India and the UK.
The site is kept online by 9 servers in total, but this number is bound to go up with the ever increasing visitor count. Below is how the servers are setup.
– 1 firewall + load balancer
– 2 data storages + search index
– 2 main http
– 2 static
– 2 backup servers
In the 5 years the site has been online it gained a strong community, and the site staff is determined to keep it going.

Facebook Removes Extratorrent Fan Page

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As one of the largest BitTorrent sites on the Internet, Extratorrent.com (ET) thought it would be a good idea to interact with “fans” through Facebook.
As of two days ago the page had more than 140.000 fans, but yesterday Facebook decided to remove it due to copyright violations.
“We have removed or disabled access to the following content that you have posted on Facebook because we received a notice from a third-party that the content infringes their copyright(s),” Facebook wrote.
The site owner is not pleased with the decision, and says Facebook is needlessly censoring the ET community.
“We use Facebook to have a place for ET community to meet, talk, debate, have fun and hang out with each other. Many ET users like to spend their time on their ET Facebook page.”


“We never used FB for the purpose of breaking any rules,” he adds.
However, Extratorrent also admits that they posted links to torrent files on Facebook. Some of these torrents pointed to copyrighted material, which explains the violation of Facebook’s terms of service.
The site owner nevertheless hopes to convince Facebook to reinstate the page. If this is not possible a new one will be created.