YouTorrent Relaunches with Legal Torrents

by Jordan Yerman | July 17, 2008 at 09:10 am

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In a Napster-like rebirth (minus the downtime), YouTorrent is reinventing itself as an index of legal torrent files. Once the fastest-growing torrent site on the web, YouTorrent began to lose traction once it stopped indexing sites that linked to copyright-violating files (ahem, Pirate Bay). Then a funny thing happened: people started using YouTorrent again. Is there a place for a legal torrent site? Apparently there is.

“We feel that a full meta-search engine is a better experience for our users considering our switch to legal content,” Patrick, the co-founder of YouTorrent said. “We now return accurate seed and peer data and results are quick and easy to navigate, and more in line with traditional search engine result pages.”

The new site searches verified torrents on sites such as Jamendo, Vuze, BitTorrent, Legaltorrents, Legittorrents, Gameupdates, Wortharchiving, BT.etree and Mininova’s featured torrents section. By default the results are ordered by relevance, but they can also be sorted by number of seeds and peers, the size of the torrent, the upload dates and the number of total downloads so far.

Torrents are files that are shared piecemeal across several users. Complete files are called seeds, of which at least one must be present for the file to properly replicate across various sharers.This method of sharing allows for faster downloads.

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