Advertisement With Napster, WinMX, LimeWire, and Kazaa mostly in their graves ( is still around, I guess), the world of filesharing has made a swift transition to. Just like the good old Napster days though, public torrent sites and trackers are riddled with trojans and other garbage. The best way to enjoy your filesharing experience is getting an invite to one of the many (but few illustrious) private trackers.
While invite-only web is becoming a slight trend, I’m here to share three niche-specific and very reliable private sites that I use to get my complete media fix. Let’s get started.
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PTP has been around for quite a while, and through a legacy of staff drama and domain name changes, it still stands today as the best private torrent site for movies. High-quality rips are added to PTP faster than almost anywhere else on the net, and speeds are generally top notch. PTP is at around 23,000 (of 25,000) users with a daily activity rate that hangs around 40%. Monthly, it’s at more than 90%. PTP is hanging right under the 100,000 total torrents mark. They’ve got over 53,000 individual movies, more than 80,000 subtitles, 533,000+ user ratings, 3.5 million total snatches, and a seeder/leecher ratio of 85.49.
That’s impressive. The site is very smooth and easy to navigate, also. As a little added bonus, PTP has some of the most active forums I’ve seen across private trackers. The community is very involved.
This is where I go when I want movies. If you’re fortunate enough to be an active, invited member than you can tag along with me. My username there is. What.CD is the premiere private tracker for music. Even their splash page is mysterious and makes you want to join up.
Like PTP, What.CD has been going strong forever. The site has not changed much over the years, and that’s a good thing.
It’s here to stay. Here are the current stats that What.CD boasts. Maximum Users: 200,000. Enabled Users: 147,441. Users active today: 31,864 (21.61%). Users active this week: 75,651 (51.31%).
Users active this month: 120,045 (81.42%). Torrents: 1,274,496. Releases: 588,517. Artists: 442,475. “Perfect” FLACs: 298,750. Requests: 158,012 (70.30% filled).
Snatches: 66,631,197. Peers: 8,836,049. Seeders: 8,687,317. Leechers: 148,732. Seeder/Leecher Ratio: 58.40 Those numbers are completely insane! If you’re an audiophile and love your FLACs, this is the place to be.
I’ve never gone to What.CD and left without finding what I wanted. I’m over at that tracker. TvT is the up-and-comer of this list. It’s much different from PTP and What.CD.
It doesn’t run on like those two, the tracker software that What.CD made famous. The invitation and credits system is completely different also. Again, just like the others, this is absolutely at the top of its class. Sometimes shows are uploaded as briefly as 15 minutes after their live airing. They’ve even got sections of the website that shows recently aired episodes of the most popular TV series’, complete with the matching user-contributed torrents (if there). These guys are really doing it right, and their approach is definitely changing the way a lot of people watch “TV”. No more sitting and waiting, you don’t even have to set the TiVo.
TvTorrents.com has everything you want, from Dexter to the most obscure foreign sitcoms. I’m over there too, self-named. Now how do you get an invite to these awesome trackers? That’s on you.
Just know that they are out there and hold all of your cravings and desires! In the event that you do get invited, you’ll want BitTorrent is still a reliable and pretty fast way to download large files. It might not be the best method out there, but sometimes it sure is the easiest. The clients are straightforward enough.
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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. Despite claims that millions of BitTorrent downloads would cease to work if a major BitTorrent tracker closed down, most downloaders today don’t even notice when a tracker stops working. Thanks to technologies such as central trackers have become a luxury good to some degree. Indeed, larger torrents with thousands of peers will work just fine without a central tracker. But the majority of torrents out there only have a handful of peers and for these files a central tracker is still an essential part of the downloading process.
It’s therefore good to know that several new players took the place of The Pirate Bay’s tracker when it last year. Below we show a list of the five largest public BitTorrent trackers based on the number of torrents and peers (downloaders+uploaders) they track. 5 Largest BitTorrent Trackers, June 2009 # Tracker Torrents Peers Software torrentfreak.com 1 2,484,145 21,694,091 Opentracker 2 2,388,738 21,186,589 Opentracker 3 1,614,356 10,527,993 Opentracker 4 302,799 4,889,991 XBT 5 326,467 3,205,170 Opentracker The first thing that stands out in the top five above is that the first three spots are taken by standalone trackers that do not have a torrent index or search engine attached to them.
These three trackers are responsible for the coordination of millions of public downloads on BitTorrent but do not provide any torrents on their sites like The Pirate Bay used to do. PublicBitTorrent and OpenBitTorrent, number one and two in the list, are both relatively new trackers that emerged after The Pirate Bay announced that it would sell the site last year. This sale eventually failed to go through, but The Pirate Bay did close its tracker so both trackers became a very welcome addition to the BitTorrent ecosystem. Another observation is that there is a lot of weight on the shoulders of the top three trackers. Although there are close to 50,000 known BitTorrent trackers, only a fraction of these are active, and of these only a few dozen track more than 1,000 torrent files. Without the five trackers in the list above most of the smaller public torrents could quickly become unavailable. Although trackers in the top five are all public ones, there are a few private ones that should be in this list if it was only based on the number of torrents tracked.
The music tracker What.cd, for example, currently tracks more than 800,000 torrents alone. A dazzling number that puts the site in fourth place based on the number of torrents, not peers. For BitTorrent’s long tail content reliable public trackers are still invaluable. The good news is that the ecosystem is better off than a year ago when The Pirate Bay was carrying this burden alone, but it’s far from bulletproof yet.