5 Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives

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The Pirate Bay we know and love, though still harboring torrents for now, is going away. But that doesn't mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it. Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for good.
Demonoid
Demonoid, besides having a solid community and good quality torrents—noporn, exceedingly few viruses—also operates the other major torrenttracker besides The Pirate Bay. (A tracker is what help makes the wholeBitTorrent system work, since it makes sure every peer's talking toeach other properly.) It doesn't have the bestselection around, but what most of what you'll find there is quality.The catch is that you need to snag an invitation from a member or whenthey periodically dole them out to the public.
Mininova.org
Mininova's always one of our preferred torrent sites—tons of torrentsfrom multiple trackers, not a lot of crap in the interface, and thesearch isn't bad. Actually, it's kind of the like The Pirate Bay, butwith less crap and fewer headaches. The catch now is that they'reslowly implementing a new copyright filter to keep copyrighted torrentsfrom being uploaded. But you should still be able to find True Blood on there, no problem.
ISOHunt
ISOHunt is a BitTorrent and P2P search engine that's got what feelslike the most sophisticated search engine of the bunch. But like theothers, you just punch in what you're looking for, and it pulls upresults you can sort by seeds, date or whatever. It has one of the mostmassive indices of any site, so it's a good thing the search engine isup to it. Still, with a lot of torrents, it can be hard to find exactlywhat you're looking for.
BTJunkie
BTJunkie claims to be the largest torrent search engine of all, witharound 5,000-25,000 new torrents added to the index daily. The quantitydoesn't seem noticeably better than the other sites listed above,however. Also, the interface is really ugly. But you know, it's thereif you need it.
EZTV
If you've downloaded a TV show, whatever site you snagged it from,chances are, it came from these guys. They're the most prolific TVrippers around, and usually have solid quality rips of shows up withinhours of airing. If you're interested in TV, you might as well just goto the source—their site points to wherever their files are hosted, soyou don't have to search through a million different sites to find theright EZTV torrent.
The whole scene is admittedly a bit depressing now, after years ofhigh profile closures—Suprnova, OiNK TorrentSpy and LokiTorrent—sothese are what's left of the big sites. And even they're not guaranteedto survive. Demonoid went offline for several months back in 2007-2008,Mininova has a copyright filter attached to it, and really, any site isjust a police raid away from possibly going down. So tread carefully,and don't get too attached to any of them.
And of course, you should drop your own suggestions in the comments.