TorrentHound has decided to shut down its popular torrent site, voluntarily. "Finito," the site's founder informed us in a brief message. Following the demise of KickassTorrents and Torrentz, the surprise shutdown means that three of the ten most visited torrent sites at the beginning of the year are now offline.

Well, with another big torrent site down, what do you think people will do now? And will this continue?
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[Plstic]

Could care less. I don't use public trackers.

 

[Xanthe]

Could care less. I don't use public trackers.

Where would you get private ones?

 

[emmanu888]

Could care less. I don't use public trackers.

I still use public trackers but only to download new SVTFOE episodes

 

[endoverend]

I have literally never heard of this site before so I would not consider it a "big torrent site". And as for what are people going to do, well sooner or later people will figure out that private trackers exist.

 

[ChaosEternal]

Huh, too bad. I use public trackers when I need something fairly niche. I probably wouldn't need them at all if the private tracker Underground-Gamer was still running though. That place was like a museum of old games and it got shut down over some 90's hockey games. So much of the stuff from that site can't be found anywhere else, it was so rare, not to mention the massive console-based rom collections and the thriving community. It's been years and no new site has risen to replace it. ;_;

 

[DinohScene]

Never heard of it..

 

[yusuo]

Huh, too bad. I use public trackers when I need something fairly niche. I probably wouldn't need them at all if the private tracker Underground-Gamer was still running though. That place was like a museum of old games and it got shut down over some 90's hockey games. So much of the stuff from that site can't be found anywhere else, it was so rare, not to mention the massive console-based rom collections and the thriving community. It's been years and no new site has risen to replace it. ;_;

What about bcg, that sites my go to one for older console games

 

[ChaosEternal]

What about bcg, that sites my go to one for older console games

Sadly, I don't have an account over there. I do use Gazelle Games on occasion. From what I've heard though, even BCG can't compare to what UG used to be. If you wanted a game from the dawn of gaming to 2005, they had it. Wanted a magazine scan of a 1980's gaming magazine? They probably had that too. Wanted a rare OST? Not a problem. That place was like the Library of Congress for old-school games. I still have a copy of the entire GCN library from there and I used to have the entire PS2 library as well.

 

[Raylight]

well shit that sucks. problem is you need to be dedicated to use a private tracker. and getting your ratio up takes forever.

 

[Deleted User]

Let them close as many torrent sites as they want, there is a whole network which depends 100% on peer-to-peer connection called "Freenet". People will eventually go to it and create torrent sites there.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Who?

 

[Kioku]

I still use public trackers but only to download new SVTFOE episodes

I can't even. People like that show?

 

[gamesquest1]

tbh times are changing, where once you would be checking pirate bay for new TV episodes or latest game release people now go to the likes of the iso site and for films/tv most people I would guess are on stuff like kodi, torrent sites closing is like when book shops closed. ....most people have already moved on to more convenient sources and uploaders are going to sites where they get a slice of ad revenue,

the likes of pirate bay etc getting shut down is like a big evil nazi being caught now in a retirement home on a ventilator, sure woooow we caught a nazi........yeah, years too late

 

[emmanu888]

I can't even. People like that show?

It already got renewed for a 3rd season before its 2nd season started. So its pretty safe to say that yes people love the show.

 

[Bladexdsl]

they might as well all shut down none of them are doing it properly now. hardly anything is getting uploaded now anyway. still looking for recore

 

[VinsCool]

RIP in Piracy.

Not like we don't have alternatives anyway.

 

[The Catboy]

Never heard of them and I don't care. I have my own sources.

 

[Xenon Hacks]

Same either get a private tracker or use Nyaa,Horriblesub,Thepiratebay

 

[Bladexdsl]

tpb your joking 90% of the time when you type in a search it goes in maintenance mode! they are garbage now