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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[Xenon Hacks]

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

I never get that message the only time I see it is if something huge leaks online.

 

[Luckkill4u]

GBAtemp gave me a heads up a long time ago about a certain private tracker. I've been using it ever since

 

[Bladexdsl]

I never get that message the only time I see it is if something huge leaks online.

and they still don't have recore

 

[mechagouki]

and they still don't have recore

Not that I even want it, but I just found a Recore torrent with a 2 word search.

 

[Bladexdsl]

yeah torrentsnack they are a SCAM site it's pass-worded and have to fill out a survey to unlock it. try it!

 

[mechagouki]

Well, it wasn't there, but it wasn't a site I've been to before either. The game has only been out 3 days, so maybe you'll have to be a little patient (or buy it ).

There's several long running sites where you can get pretty much anything pre last-gen, including at least two that are well over a decade old. Can't remember the last time I couldn't find a game I wanted on any of the pirateable formats.

 

[anhminh]

Lately I find myself use Mega more than Torrent to download pirate file.

 

[DarkWork0]

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.

Actually bcg has all of what you are talking about.

 

[retrofan_k]

Where would you get private ones?

That's private.

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Usenet groups still have their uses. Not as good as they were some years ago, but still decent enough and always full bandwidth that your connection supports.

 

[SushiKing]

GBAtemp gave me a heads up a long time ago about a certain private tracker. I've been using it ever since

What site?

 

[retrofan_k]

Actually bcg has all of what you are talking about.

I'm a member there and they are more strict on ratio and overall member rules, etc, than some other private trackers i use. But still, a good place for stuff.

 

[rad3ds]

Woah I thought bcg died for good like 8 years ago or more. I think my account got pruned lol.

 

[Bladexdsl]

or buy it

gotta pirate TRY it b4 buy it especially with the reviews it's been getting

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Usenet groups still have their uses

that's pretty much all i use although they are shithouse when it comes to anything not movies or tv shows now

 

[DSpider]

Torrenting for over ten years now and I've never heard of this so-called "big" tracker.

Also, "TorrentHound has decided to shut down its popular torrent site, voluntarily."

Clickbait title. Should've said that they DECIDED to shut down.

 

[Issac]

There's a lot of talk about still active sites here, which is against the rules. (Naming them, I mean, and asking for sites and stuff).

Keep that in mind!

 

[sj33]

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.

The loss of UG was a tragedy for gaming as a whole because so much stuff on the site was irreplaceable. Including obscure magazine full collections and OSTs that you can't buy anymore even if you tried.

 

[Maximilious]

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

Not if you know how private trackers work. A lot of them offer "free leach" torrents specifically marked to let you get your ratio up. On top of that you typically also get seed tokens you can spend to allow double seed points, etc to also help your ratio.

 

[GamingAori]

Wait torrents are still a thing? Here in germanx you get really fast busted when you use torrents. One click hoster are much better.

 

[DHall243]

In 12 years of using torrent sites, ive never remotely heard of Torrenthound.

 

[Viri]

Never heard of the site!

GBAtemp gave me a heads up a long time ago about a certain private tracker. I've been using it ever since

Wow, I thought they died ages ago, turns out they're still alive. I made my account there in like 2006, lols!