As 2008 has ended, BitTorrent sites have become more popular compared to previous years. And because of its growing market, the controversy surrounding these Torrent sites has also been continuously rising.
Meanwhile, here is a list of the top 10 Torrent sites of 2008 released by Compete and Alexa:
Probably one of the most controversial BitTorrent sites, this company topped the number one spot in the most popular on the Internet. According to a recent report, the site has over 25 million file-sharers at any given time, a quite impressive performance despite attempts of several European countries including Italy and Denmark to block people from accessing this site.
2. Mininova
Last year, more than 3 million torrents were downloaded from this site, making this company the best performing BitTorrent on the Internet.
3. isoHunt
This company signed a partnership deal with music distributor Jamendo, which further makes it more appealing to web-centric consumers.
4. Torrentz
This is one of the pioneers in Torrent sites and will celebrate its sixth year anniversary in July. Last month, this site was attacked by a hacker, causing major technical glitch in its traffic.
One of the reasons of its popularity is that people can download a torrent and remain anonymous.
6. Demonoid
This site has been forced to shut down due to legal cases filed by record labels, but after six months of downtime, Demonoid has returned to the business and is continuously attracting more site visitors and file-sharers.
7. BTjunkie
In 2007, this site was also forced to go offline due to legal threats filed by record groups. But despite this event, it returned to its business while enjoying popularity among file-sharers.
8. SumoTorrent
Despite pop-ups and redirects which may appear nuisances to some people, this BitTorrent site is popular among web-centric consumers.
9. BTmon
This site was 10th placer in 2007.
10. TorrentPortal
The file-sharers are continuously growing, but not as impressive as compared to other torrents’ performance.