Comments on: YouTorrent: Give It A Shot Before It’s Shut Down

By: Arben Kryeziu - Black on White » Blog Archive » YouTorrent - Hits 300,000 searches/day

Sat, 17 May 2008 04:54:15 +0000

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By: babelicious

babelicious — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:00:44 +0000

http://www.youtorrent.com is fast, clean and I love it!
It surely deserve more than a chance

By: $web

$web — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:53:40 +0000

I like your review on YouTorrent, but found a blog has a same content as yours.

http://naceron.wordpress.com/2.....shut-down/

By: Fred Morgan

Fred Morgan — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:31:54 +0000

Torrentz, YouTorrent and Morrent are doing nothing wrong unless they are holding the torrent files which they are not.

If thats the case Google has something to answer about indexing.

By: L$D

L$D — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:48:42 +0000

Do people actually sort through all that garbage?

By: The Simon George fund

The Simon George fund — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:38:13 +0000

Thank You TechCrunch! Not that I use torrents! ….sorry ComCast.

http://simongeorgeinc.googlepages.com

By: Other torrent sites

Other torrent sites — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:12:20 +0000

Great site, nice interface. There are similar sites out there though, like torrentz and http://www.flixflux.co.uk which is just for movies

By: JM

JM — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:39:35 +0000

How is this site run? There is a definate lack of ads.

By: Jorge Rodriguez

Jorge Rodriguez — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:02:32 +0000

The guys at ScrapeTorrent (www.scrapetorrent.com) have been doing this for a long time (they even have a banner supporting Ron Paul these days hehe), so I don’t think they will end up in the deadpool very soon.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:47:07 +0000

Normally, I don’t admit to my very infrequent piracy, but YouTorrent actually helped me with a school project. I needed to watch a certain movie for my english class, and couldn’t find it at any of the local library branches. I tried a specific BitTorrent site, and was confused among the various files they offered. YouTorrent presented them clearly.

On a side note, I’ve learned that the more you allow your client to upload, the more download bandwidth you’ll get. Piracy is addicting (not really).

By: mr_woot

mr_woot — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:40:15 +0000

Some of those torrents are listed as Spam on torrentspam.com
http://www.torrentspam.com/ind.....chTorrents

(sorry for the plug :-))

We need a better Spam filtering/checking system using bittorrent using DHT, other than just waiting it out because people are are going to download this crap (high seeds != ‘good’), some private trackers have better quality torrents with less seeds.

Its a vicious circle of crap.

By: butanebob

butanebob — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:39:58 +0000

“Finally! A good Torrent search!

Dugg!”

How about Scrapetorrent? it’s been around for ages.

By: erdovery

erdovery — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:06:48 +0000

LOLAttack, you are right, Web is full of You… sites. Or Massive attack just kidding. anyway, the point is, torrent business is also the biggest burglary business isn’t it? And all the torrent users are theoretically robbers, so you don’t care about this and you just amazed on the web site name?

By: Tsarin

Tsarin — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:11:12 +0000

You wrote: (yes, there is legal content on BitTorrent)

There are some sites devoted to staying within the law, like LegalTorrents.com - they have been down for about 3 months doing a site rebuild.

And yes, this was a shameless plug.

By: Dekut.com

Dekut.com — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:07:00 +0000

YouTorrent: Give It A Shot Before It’s Shut Down…

A whole set of bugfixes and feature additions in Plasma, and various optimisations across KDE. Usability improvements in Blinken. More work on the timeline tool, including fuzzy selection in Digikam. Support for XComposite translucency in the Konsole K…

By: Loki

Loki — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:04:45 +0000

“There is so much spam out there these days that you need to use a site that allows user comments on the files - so not isohunt, yes btjunkie for example - because it doesn’t take long for people to report that files are fake”

Thats the reason why I prefer http://www.torrents.to

By: jason

jason — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:34:09 +0000

i think this is the first dumb post ive read in techcrunch

is it just me or anyone else thinks so too?

By: king

king — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:17:22 +0000

you are probably the worst techcrunch writer ever

why do you write the same shit about sites getting shut down… why would a torrent search engine be shut down before the sites it indexes

torrentz has been doing this for at least a year, no problems

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By: DH

DH — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:03:03 +0000

What I find tragic about all this is that there is a perfectly LEGAL way for companies like You Torrent to operate in cooperation with RIAA and MPAA; and, yet, for some reason I am unable to fathom, the LAWYERS for both these professional associations apparently are not willing to to talk about or even contemplate the architectural (Web)options that are out there for them. Relying on amended copyright law, meaning extensions to copyright, are pointless. Neither MPAA nor RIAA have the model(s) they require and they WILL NOT (in my experience) entertain proposals from third parties. What a downright shame! DH

By: tsh

tsh — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:42:48 +0000

I’ve used YouTorrent before and have had a lot of good luck with it. It’s just a search engine free of distracting shit for people who just want to look for torrent files.

@NIGEL: As for a community of users to comment on individual torrents in order to peg them as safe or fakes, these links (because it’s a SEARCH ENGINE) take you to the torrent sites that DO have those types of communities. So if you see a torrent you might want to take, the link takes you to Mininova, Pirate Bay, etc. where users are more than happy to warn you if necessary.

@MUHAMMED: That’s very unlikely. Just use something like Peer Guardian to protect your IP anyway.

@EVERETT: Hulu.com is an NBC project.

It works. Give YT a chance.

By: Babak

Babak — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:35:10 +0000

Duncan, LoL world’s first? you must be new to the torrent scene

http://www.scrapetorrent.com has been doing this for a while, with a much better designed GUI

ps anyone notice their front page spelling error? “comparision”

By: Shady45

Shady45 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:22:10 +0000

if its not on the scene already its fake

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:17:58 +0000

Ummm…the owners of Hulu actually own the shows they air?

By: Everett

Everett — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:07:56 +0000

I’ve been out of the loop but how does Hulu.com get to air TV shows without getting shut down?