In less than two weeks my two preferred websites for acquiring stuff via bittorrent have been quashed, I’m sure more will fall soon. That being said, I figured I’d share with you a nice list of public tracker sites that I’ve used along with some more from around the web. I’m still trying to find an invite to waffles.fm, but from what I hear, the selection isn’t even a fraction of what OiNK was. If you have a spare, I’m interested.

  • thepiratebay.org – this is the granddaddy of them all, which publicly thumbs their nose to everyone. While a good resource, it often contains poor quality music and more seeders than leachers.
  • tvrss.net – searchable database for most all TV shows, most torrents are hosted through mininova.org, this just helps weed them out and gives you an RSS feed for individual shows if you want. This has been my favorite site to catch up on TV shows on my time.
  • torrentspy.com – this was a great resource however they have banned all IP addresses from the US. There are ways around it, but why bother when so many others are out there.

Those four sites are the main ones I use, however there are thousands of others. Here is a brief list of some more worth checking that I found around the ‘net. I would caution you against joining any torrent tracker site that makes you pay to be a member, this is a good way to get someone in a suit showing up at your doorstep. A great idea once you found a few tracker sites you like is to add the search function to your Firefox search using the OpenSearchFox add-on.

Please leave a comment with links to your favorite tracker site if it’s not on the list.

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