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YouTorrent goes legit, boring, and up for sale
BitTorrent search engine YouTorrent is for sale, according to TorrentFreak. The news isn't particularly surprising. YouTorrent has become quite popular over the last few months, but for some reason the owners have yet to put advertisements on the site, so it doesn't appear to be making any money. At the same time YouTorrent gets over 10 million visitors per month, which has got to be hell on the company's bandwidth bill.We'd say YouTorrent shouldn't have a hard time attracting a buyer with a good monetization plan. But YouTorrent kind of shot themselves in the foot on their way to the auction block. The company has removed the majority of BitTorrent trackers from its index, which means you can now only search 100% free and legal torrent sites like Vuze, BitTorrent, and LegalTorrents. In other words, you won't find any cracked software, or illegal music or movie downloads. Sure, the move will help the service avoid lawsuits, but it will probably dramatically reduce YouTorrent's user base as well, which could make the site a heck of a lot less valuable.
If you're looking for a good YouTorrent clone that doesn't suck, check out NowTorrents or PizzaTorrent.
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yogabba said 7:46AM on 4-14-2008
this is a good article about stuff I care about, thanks for the info Brad
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ramon said 1:34AM on 4-14-2008
"shot themselves in the food" ???
"Ouch! I just shot myself in my peanut butter jelly sandwich!"
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rehban said 7:47AM on 4-14-2008
I'm too hungry to download any torrents now :(
Brad Linder said 7:51AM on 4-14-2008
The dangers of blogging late at night. Thanks for catching the items our spllechecker misses!
Hany Hanna said 7:47AM on 4-14-2008
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are not real food and should be shot.
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technophobe said 7:50AM on 4-14-2008
Torrentz.com is a good simple alternative
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Josh said 7:50AM on 4-14-2008
http://scrapetorrent.com
I've backed this site since the first time Lifehacker posted about it and I still do. It's better than any other torrent tracker search out there. If you go back through the YouTorrent posts, I am pretty sure you will see me posting about it in the comments, too.
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Doug S. said 7:51AM on 4-14-2008
demonoid is back if you would like to use that site.
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jfjb said 5:52PM on 4-14-2008
RIP YouTorrent
Life on the fast lane of virtual highways is as fast and as virtual.
Long live your successors' successors' successors' successors
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Jona76 said 8:11AM on 4-18-2008
Look at http://www.multitorrent.org. Very quickly!
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eli said 7:17AM on 5-09-2008
fix
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