1. The Pirate Bay

The Pirate Bay is probably the best known BitTorrent brand on the Internet. The site was founded in 2003 and is still expanding, despite the immense legal witch hunt launched by the entertainment industries several years ago.

2. Torrentz

Torrentz has been the leading BitTorrent meta-search engine for years. A few weeks ago the site traded in its .COM domain and switched to .EU, but this didn’t affect the site’s traffic.

3. IsoHunt

Last year was a tough one for isoHunt, as it became the first search engine that had to implement a keyword filter provided by the MPAA. Despite this setback, isoHunt is still the third largest torrent site in terms of traffic. In 2011, isoHunt hopes to get rid of the filter through the Appeals Court.

4. KickassTorrents

KickassTorrents was the fastest growing newcomer of last year, and managed to continue this upward trend throughout 2010. The site released many new features and continues to innovate, still without a single banner ad on the site.

5. BTjunkie

BTjunkie had a pretty quiet year, which is usually good news for a site that operates in the BitTorrent niche. The only setback was the removal of the site’s front page from Google due to a DMCA complaint. As last year, BTjunkie settles in fifth place.

6. Demonoid.me

The impossible happened. Demonoid finished 2010 with only a minimal amount of downtime, compared to weeks or months in previous years. A few weeks ago the site announced that it would move from the familiar .COM to a .ME domain in response to the news about US domain seizures.

7. ExtraTorrent.com

ExtraTorrent is one of those robust torrent indexes that don’t make the news very often. In 2010 it continued to expand and the site gained two spots compared to last year.

8. TorrentDownloads.net

TorrentDownloads is in the same league as ExtraTorrent, a no nonsense torrent index that provides torrents to millions of users each month.

9. TorrentReactor

TorrentReactor fooled most of the tech press last year when it announced that it had bought a Russian town, one of the better PR stunts seen in 2010. On the flipside TorrentReactor seems to have lost some traffic due to a Google penalty, dropping the site to 9th place this year.

10. LimeTorrents.com

LimeTorrents is the best newcomer of 2010 in terms of traffic, which promises a lot for the new year. The site went live half a year ago and already made it into the top 10 in this short period. It’s also a bit ironic as ‘Limewire’ got shutdown a few months ago.

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Syntakser du kan bruke

Husk!

• Ingen mellomrom mellom syntaks og søkeord.

• Bruk anførselstegn/hermetegn når søket består av flere ord du er sikker på er skrevet riktig. Eksempel: «Avril Lavigne». Bruker du ikke anførselstegn så vises alle resultat som inneholder Avril og Lavigne.

Avanserte søk

Eksempel: genre:pop year:2000-2005
Viser alle sanger i sjanger pop utgitt mellom år 2000 og 2005

Eksempel: title:heaven -»bryan adams»
Alle sanger med tittel som inneholder heaven, men ikke artist eller album av bryan adams

Eksempel: title:stairway artist:led
Alle sanger med tittel som inneholder stairway og artist som inneholder led

Eksempel: artist:»britney spears» year:2003-2005 album:hits
Alle sanger med artist Britney Spears fra år 2003-2005 med albumnavn som inneholder hits

Tastatur-snarveier

Alle tilbyr DRM-fri musikk (DRM = Digital Rights Management). Det vil si at filene er fri for kopisperre slik at du kan bruke de på din PC, mobil, bilspiller, musikkspiller og brenne de på CD uten noe kluss. Den store fordelen med MP3-filer er at de kan spilles av på nærsagt alle musikkspillere.

Prisen per sang ligger vanligvis på kr. 6-10,- og per album kr. 69-79,-

Butikkene

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Hva med iTunes?

iTunes tilbyr nå også DRM-fri musikk, men i formatet AAC. Dette formatet støttes ikke av alle musikkspillere og  en ulempe (etter min mening) er at du må laste ned og installere iTunes for å kjøpe musikk. Det slipper du med de andre butikkene.