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BitTorrent site traffic sees impressive growth

article published on 22 March, 2008

According to TorrentFreak, torrent popularity and torrent site traffic continues to grow with every passing day despite heated efforts by anti-piracy groups such as the MPAA and IFPI to slow piracy. Using data from the traffic Tracker Alexa, TF compiled a list of the 25 most popular torrent sites and found the amount of growth since December 2007 to be, in a word, explosive. Many saw ... [ read the full article ]

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22. March 2008 @ 18:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"The Internet Is Illegal!" That is what I expect to be said by one of these anti-piracy groups. Because the MPAA, RIAA, and the IFPI can't really stop pirates they will shutdown its main artery. Or at least try, not that they will ever win.
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22. March 2008 @ 19:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
In the end, no matter what the powers may be say, the consumer gets what they want.
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22. March 2008 @ 19:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
wow!! there are good and bad sides to torrents. the good side is that you get things for free, and the bad side is that major corporations loose money and get bancrupt and go out of buisness
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22. March 2008 @ 19:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
they don't lose money everything i have downloaded from a torrent i have never had intentions on buying, and in fact they made money from me cause i have downloaded music by curiosity and it persuaded me to buy the actual cd same thing with several classic movies
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22. March 2008 @ 21:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
oh deary....will the same thing that happened to kazaa happen here again......

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22. March 2008 @ 21:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
all those sites pail in comparison to torrentleech blackcats and mixtapetorrent
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23. March 2008 @ 00:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by tucker001:
all those sites pail in comparison to torrentleech blackcats and mixtapetorrent
not in terms of traffic
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23. March 2008 @ 00:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
but in terms of speed by far

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Originally posted by tucker001:
but in terms of speed by far
lol yeah well clearly public trackers cant compete to TL, Blackcats etc, but even those sites cant compete to other more private sites like sct ;)
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try qtrax its free and LEGAL you wont get sued and artists get paid p2p access allowed soon portability to mp3 players soon but right now you can download all music for free and its legal check it out
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