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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[codezer0]

All these people acting like everyone has accounts on 20 plus private trackers already and here I am like

 

[Yuan]

Never heard about it.

Anyway, is there a reliable scene release tracker nowadays? Since orlydb and ludibria are dead, it seems.

 

[Raylight]

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.

ever think the government uses that?

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.

interesting ive only used 1 and they didnt have that.

 

[dontay0100]

Where would you get private ones?

You would either need an invite or lucky enough to get a open entry which is extremely rare, happens around holidays..

 

[Raylight]

You would either need an invite or lucky enough to get a open entry which is extremely rare, happens around holidays..

yep and you never really know what you're getting till after you get in

 

[ThatWorld Of 3ds]

RIP in Piracy.

Not like we don't have alternatives anyway.

Piracy is still best method

 

[Bladexdsl]

how else can we try before we never buy?

 

[the_randomizer]

Sorry, what site? Never heard of it.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Never used this before. Kickass Torrents still live on (or a version of it).

 

[Pluupy]

All these people acting like everyone has accounts on 20 plus private trackers already and here I am like

Then get one. Ask around for invitations, send in an application or jump in during limited sign up periods.

Edit: gbatemp mods probs don't want me linking to that site. Lol

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

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

TorrentLeech? That was a great private torrent website but after the update, the whole theme just went to the crapper.

 

[Noctosphere]

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

ratiomaster

 

[MarkDarkness]

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. ;_;

Too true, man. Such a great community... I never quite found again anything like that either. Real passionate people.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Never heard about it.

Anyway, is there a reliable scene release tracker nowadays? Since orlydb and ludibria are dead, it seems.

Yeah, I mentioned one. It's still solid (I assume) but the design is pretty disappointing.

You would either need an invite or lucky enough to get a open entry which is extremely rare, happens around holidays..

Not the 'green' one.

ratiomaster

That'll get you banned... eventually.

 

[ElYubiYubi]

Torrents are a thing of the past now. I always avoid torrents for downloads.

 

[Deleted User]

ever think the government uses that?

So what? Everything is encrypted and transmitted peer-to-peer. As if the government doesn't use Tor, its still safe regardless of the hacks happening every now and then.

 

[ov3rkill]

Piracy is <3. haha j/k

I support awesome well-made games.
I'm just ashamed I wasted my money on Titanfall and jumped in the hyped. I enjoyed for about a week and it pretty much went downhill from there. Other game would be Diablo 3, with its fiasco released. I was amazed on the later patch and made me come back. It's now so much worth it.

I don't deny pirating games. In fact, I grew up buying bootlegs before I ended up in the P2P world - newsbin, mirc, filehosting, limewire, torrent, etc. hehe It's just sad to hear news about torrent sites taken down recently. I'm still using torrents especially downloading anime.

 

[banjo2]

Never heard of it.

 

[gnmmarechal]

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

Are those sources your eeveelution brothers

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Piracy is <3. haha j/k

I support awesome well-made games.
I'm just ashamed I wasted my money on Titanfall and jumped in the hyped. I enjoyed for about a week and it pretty much went downhill from there. Other game would be Diablo 3, with its fiasco released. I was amazed on the later patch and made me come back. It's now so much worth it.

I don't deny pirating games. In fact, I grew up buying bootlegs before I ended up in the P2P world - newsbin, mirc, filehosting, limewire, torrent, etc. hehe It's just sad to hear news about torrent sites taken down recently. I'm still using torrents especially downloading anime.

Imo, titanfall is pretty fun. A shame there is only one or two game modes online and only like 100 players online.

 

[Saturosias]

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

ReCore isn't getting uploaded anywhere because UWP DRM isn't cracked (and probably won't be since, unlike Denuvo, all of its exlusives suck), not because the torrent indexers aren't "doing it properly".

Anyway, is there a reliable scene release tracker nowadays?

AlphaRatio
No, registration is not open. You'll need an invite.