This is from an article on about dot com by Paul Gil. I’d normally link you to the article rather than reprint it here verbatim but that site has a mass of adverts and two pop-ups. Enjoy.

NB: As an aside note that lokitorrent is NOT a posterchild for abuse by the **AA. Lokitorrent did some very dirty tricks and ended up in profit from the lawsuit, all at the expense of those that supported the site. Lokitorrent is the Robin Hood that kept the gold and legged it while laughing over his shoulder at the poor.

Note: this list is in random order. Special thanks to readers, Gregory Gumo and Scott Hardin for their input on keeping this list current.

1. Isohunt.com
(Isohunt is fighting off the threat of an MPAA law suit. Read the details on their site home page.)

2. ThePirateBay.org/
(Pirate Bay is quickly becoming the favorite torrent search site of millions of P2P downloaders. Like Isohunt, Pirate Bay has an immense database of the latest torrents.)

3. TorrentTyphoon.com
(a unique bittorrent search engine that searches several of the most popular sites. )

4. bittorrent.com
(the official Torrent website by Bram Cohen, the designer of the Python BitTorrent format.)

5. Yotoshi.com
(one of the more advanced, dead torrent filtering search engines )

6. Bitoogle.com
(the ‘original’ bittorrent search engine)

7. Bi-Torrent.com

8. Torrentmatrix.com
(Urgent: Torrentmatrix requires you to sign up with a free membership to confirm your email identity. The membership will be capped at 100,000 members, and as of June 5, there were 92,000 members. Join today if you wish to participate in this popular forum for Torrent sharing.)

9. MiniNova.org

10. Torrentspy.com

11. TvTorrents.com
(Specializes in television shows)

12. TvTorrents.ws
(More television shows)

13. HyperTorrent.com

14. Torrentreactor.to
(Torrentreactor is making a comeback from a hijacking and an uncooperative hosting service. They have recently moved to a different server setup and a Tonga country domain outside the USA. Read the the details on their home page.)

15. Torrentbox.com

16. btefnet.net
(UPDATE: the Btefnet webmaster has shut down the site voluntarily under threat of civil litigation. While it was running, Btefnet specialized in television shows, and it was a very popular search database while it lasted.)

17. LegalTorrents.com
(As the name implies, this is a database of public-domain content. Thanks to Anand S. for this URL.)

18. BitTorrents.com
(The resurrection of Suprnova.org, which was plagued by hijackers in 2004. This reborn service is a paid subscription at approximately $40USD for each year of unlimited access. If you can afford the price, Bittorrents.com provides a very broad P2P database)

19. TV-swarm.com
(Based in France, this site specializes in television shows, with commercials removed. As of February 10, the MPAA has intimidated this site into stopping their operations temporarily. Keep checking for when TV-swarm.com returns to full operations.)

20. BTbot.com

21. Torrentsearch.us

22. Bitoogle.com

23. Throughput.de

24. Bitower.com

25. Torrentseeker.com

26. Thinktorrent.com

27. FileList.org

28. FileMP3.org

29. TorrentIt.com

30. TorrentBytes.net

31. Special mention: Torrents.co.uk
(This British site has been slow to load lately)

32. Special mention: LokiTorrent.com
(In a precedent-setting MPAA civil law suit, Loki has been shut down by court order as of Feb 10, 2005. To add insult to injury, the MPAA has left a trashy saber-rattling message at the lokitorrent home page in an attempt to intimidate other P2P users. P2P users everywhere are mourning the loss of this excellent service, and the MPAA is estranging even more Internet users with its heavy-handed campaign.)

33. Special mention: Commonbits.com
(This new beta search site is dedicated to media on progressive political content: audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files. This is a place for activists to share their message, and for people to learn about other political choices.)

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