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Short Bytes: The world of the top ranking torrent websites has seen a lot of changes since the last year’s list of the best torrent websites appeared on Fossbytes. In 2017, the original torrent king, The Pirate Bay, is back at the same top position in this year’s list of the best and most popular torrent websites.
Update: Our fresh list oftop torrenting sites of 2018is now live. Do check it out.
KickAssTorrents has been active since the last month. Unfortunately, it failed to walk with other popular torrent websites in 2017’s list of the best torrent websites. The list has been curated on the basis of the global Alexa rank of these websites. You can also find some VPN recommendations for extra security at the end.These torrent websites are home to a considerable amount of copyrighted content. But the torrent files and the BitTorrent network is not all about promoting piracy. You can find many torrents which don’t link to content violating the copyright laws.
Recommended: 13 Best Websites For Legal Torrents And Safe Downloading
Anyways, here is the list of the top 10 torrent websites for 2017:
Best Torrent Websites You Need To Try
1. ThePirateBay.org
Alexa Rank: 102
Known For: Torrents in various categories of content.
The Pirate Bay is one of the first torrent file hosting websites in the world. For the year 2017, TPB tops the list of the best torrent websites in the world. After coming back from the dead, TPB is now running with its original .org domain.
2. Rarbg.to
Alexa Rank: 260
Known For: Movie torrents.
Rarbg is also a not so good looking yet popular torrent website. It indexes torrent files for various categories like TV shows, movies, etc. Rarbg came into existence in 2008, and since then it was living a low-profile life until the last few years. It went under a resurrection process for about a week after it was legally closed within its first year. Now, Rarbg is one of the most visited torrent websites in the world.
3. YTS.ag
Alexa Rank: 269
Known For: Movie torrents.
Earlier known as YIFY, this one of the most popular torrent websites. YTS is mainly known for its huge collection of movie torrents. The prime USP of YTS is its neat and clean interface with non-intrusive advertisements. The team behind YTS has even released an API of their platform. YTS also suffered the impact MPAA’s takedown campaign.
4. Torrentz2.eu
Alexa Rank: 408
Known For: Torrent search engine.
Torrentz2.eu is similar in appearance and nature to the defunct torrent site Torrentz. The meta-search engine isn’t a clone to Torrentz but it’s trying to become a replacement and become better. Torrentz2 currently indexes around 5.5 million torrents from 75 domains.
5. 1337x.to
Alexa Rank: 545
Known For: Torrents in various categories of content.
An Alexa rank below 1000 makes it stand beside many popular websites around the globe. 1337x came into existence in 2007 but it wasn’t until the destruction of TPB and KickAss that the torrent indexing website tasted success. The graphics-rich UI of this website also visually appealing like YTS. The website appears to be actively updated on a daily basis. 1337x houses copyrighted content but it strictly prevents its users from uploading torrents related to child pornography.
6. TorrentProject.se
Alexa Rank: 797
Known For: An alternative to Torrentz.
Torrent Project is a torrent search engine. It does the same work done by the torrent website Torrentz.eu, i.e., it crawls on other websites like The Pirate Bay and indexes torrents present there. In the last ten months, Torrent Project has received an enormous attention helping it reach an Alexa rank of 797 from 4500s in April last year.
7. EZTV.ag
Alexa Rank: 1093
Known For: Torrents related to entertainment content, specifically movies torrents, and TV torrents
EZTV is a release group which operated on other popular torrent websites like TPB and KickAss Torrents. The group came up with their own torrent website after the takedown of KickAss. EZTV.ag isn’t as visually appealing as other popular torrent websites and has advertisement links attached to main options. It’s ability to update contents on a daily basis probably the reason for its popularity.
8. Limetorrents.cc
Alexa Rank: 1910
Known For: Torrents in various categories of content.
Limetorrents has also managed another year in the list of the best torrent websites. It has observed a rank boost of around 2000 even when copyright watchdogs around the world are running after such websites indexing torrents related to movies, music, TV shows, games, and adult content. Updated regularly, Limetorrents has sections for auto-generated lists of top torrents and latest torrents.
9. IsoHunt.to
Alexa Rank: 3800
Known For: Torrents in various categories of content.
IsoHunt is almost the same age as TPB, founded in 2003 by Gary Fung. It was no denied the fact IsoHunt welcome pirated content with great love. Around 2012, IsoHunt was sharing around 14 petabytes of content. This led to the closure of IsoHunt in 2013. It didn’t take even a month for IsoHunt mirrors to surface on the internet. The domain IsoHunt.to is now regarded as the replacement of the original IsoHunt.
10. Torlock.com
Alexa Rank: 5040
Known For: Torrents in various categories of content.
The last name in the list of top 10 the most popular torrent websites is Torlock. Just like 1337x, Torlock is also very well crafted in terms of appearance. The torrent site indexes more than 3 million torrents and magnet links of varying categories of content. Torlock claims all the torrents indexed on the website are verified, and the website will remove the links it receives valid legal requests.
Extratorrent.cc (Went Offline on May 17, 2017)
Alexa Rank: N/A
Known For: Torrents in various categories of content.
Another familiar name in the list of 2017’s top 10 torrent websites is Extratorrent. Being a host to a huge number of torrent links pointing to copyrighted content, Extratorrent has suffered domain changes several times. The operator
The operators of the website shut down the website and no plans of a future comeback. Read this story to know more.
Noteworthy Mentions
KickAssTorrents, which calls itself a torrent search engine, has made a come back in the domain name of katcr.co. The people who are believed to be a part of the original KickAss website are assumed to be the creators this torrent website. It has started to fill itself with new torrents every day.
Another popular torrent website is Nyaa Torrents (Alexa: 850). It hosts torrent links related to anime content mainly consumed in east Asian nations.
Is Torrent downloading safe? Should I use a VPN?
With an increased activity on behalf of law enforcement authorities, torrent downloading without added protection is becoming more dangerous with each passing day. That’s why the use of VPN services to hide IP addresses is increasing. Some of the recommended VPN services for privacy protection are ExpressVPN, Private Internet Access VPN, and IPVanish.
Update (May 18, 2017, 1:40 pm IST): Defunct website Extratorrent removed from the list and Torrentz2.eu was added.
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I'm going to thank this and this for most of the methods that I'm going to explain in this thread.
So you have a list of books you need to buy for college. There are some really great resources for finding them online, but I'm going to run through the easiest methods for searching all of them here.
First, let's start off by using the method that will allow you to find the vast majority of books. Google. It tends to be easier if you can search multiple sites at once, and this is the easiest way to do it.
There was a search engine that /u/ratokursi made 3 years ago, but by now most of the sites are either dead or have changed the url. I decided to make a new one, this time after reviewing 100+ sites and adding to working ones to the custom search engine.
Sites it indexes: http://pastebin.com/62tKNmm1.
Also search on Library Genesis since it's not showing up in the search results for some odd reason.
This should be able to find most of your books. Unfortunately, not every book ever published is going to be on the internet.
Trying 'ext:pdf (title of book)' into Google might also yield some results, just be careful what you click on.
So, in order to find the ones you can't find, there a few other ways to find them.
You can download ebooks via irc. The easiest way to search is on a search engine, like this one: https://ixirc.com/. Then follow the last part of /u/ManWithoutModem's post:
IRC
irc://irc.undernet.org/bookz
If you don't know how to use IRC to download books, check out this link or read this:
IRC
You obviously need an IRC client installed, a quick google search should find you a bunch of decent free ones.
Load the client and then type:
/server irc.irchighway.net
This will connect you to the irchighway server. Once you're on there, type:
/join #ebooks
This will take you into the ebooks channel, which has more than 2.2Terabytes of ebooks for free download. Once you're in, all you have to do to find what you want is to simply type:
@search 'Author or book title'
... removing the inverted commas.
You'll get a message saying that your search has been accepted. A few seconds later a searchbot will offer you a file, so accept the download. That will send you a .txt file that's zipped. Extract that and you'll get a list of files. I searched for Lian Hearn and got a list of 147 files. Here's an extract from it:
!bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 02] - Grass For His Pillow .rar - 142.1 KB !bald Lian Hearn - Tales of the Otori 2 - Grass for His Pillow (CO.rar - 355.3 KB !bald Lian Hearn - Tales of the Otori 2 - Grass for His Pillow (ht.rar - 140.54 KB !bald Lian_Hearn_-[Otori_01]-Across_The_Nightingale_Floor(v3).rar - 111.62 KB !bald Lian_Hearn-[Otori_01]-Across_the_Nightingale_Floor(v4.0.rar - 115.45 KB !bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 03] - Brilliance Of The Moo.rar - 175.53 KB !bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 04] - The Harsh Cry of the Heron (v1.0) (html).rar - 351.80 KB !bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of the Otori 05] - Heaven's Net Is Wide (v5.0) (epub).rar - 588.40 KB
Say I wanted to download the first book. I'd copy the text shown below, deliberately removing the file size information (I've been booted for that before ):
!bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 02] - Grass For His Pillow .rar
Then just paste that into the IRC window then press enter. After 2-3 seconds you get a prompt asking you to accept or decline the file.You know how to do the rest.
There are private torrent trackers that require either registration or an invite from someone else already on the site in order to join. Some examples include FreeTheTextbooks (Open Signup), My Anonamouse, BitSpyder, BitMe, and Bibliotik.
It's not advisable to try to gain access to one for just a few textbooks seeing as most require some sort of effort to look for something that may or may not be there. (FreeTheTextbooks might be worth it as it's open signup).
By now you're probably not going to find the book online. However, you still have many options. You can rent it from Chegg, get it used from Biblio.com, or DeDRM it after getting it on Amazon.
Chegg is a site where you can rent or buy used textbooks and also read some of the online. There should be a way to extract the text from the page content, hopefully /u/molotoviphone can elaborate on this. It's really good way to get the book saved outside of the rental period.
Biblio.com is a service similar to Chegg, except without the online feature.
Amazon is (as you probably already know) a site where you can buy new and used textbooks and also rent or buy digital kindle versions but they're encumbered with DRM. The rented version normally comes in a .azw4 file format, and the purchased version usually comes in a .mobi file format. These are probably both DRM-Protected.
In order to remove the DRM, you will need Calibre, some modified DeDRM Tools, and KindleUnpack.
This will allow you to remove the DRM on all azw4 and mobi files while removing your account name from the metadata.
Install calibre and install the DeDRM Plugin and KindleUnpack along with it. Then you can drag the .azw4 or .mobi files into Calibre and it will DeDRM it. Select the book, click the KindleUnpack icon, and select 'Extract PDF'.
At this point, you have no use for the DRMed copy of the book, so you can return it if you wish, and essentially get the book for free, or you can do whatever else you want with the book.
If all else fails, or you need some kind of online access code, your only choice is to buy the physical copy of the book or the online key.
Since sharing is caring, you should try to do your best to share the DeDRMed version of the ebook if you got it from Amazon or when you're done with the physical book, scan it before reselling it, and upload it so that it will be easier for other people to find the book. Some good places to do so are Library Genesis and any subreddit in This Multireddit.
Hopefully this will help you find most of your textbooks that you need for your classes and allow you to study without having to give even more money to the publishers who are trying to take advantage of our situation.
Edit: I understand that all of us need to find textbooks, but please go through all the methods listed here, and if you can't find it, there's a 99% chance that no one else can find it either. If it's possible, go ahead and buy it, DeDRM it from Amazon, and then return it.