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YouTorrent goes legit, boring, and up for sale
BitTorrent search engine YouTorrent is for sale, according to TorrentFreak. The news isn't particularly surprising. YouTorrent has become quite popular over the last few months, but for some reason the owners have yet to put advertisements on the site, so it doesn't appear to be making any money. At the same time YouTorrent gets over 10 million visitors per month, which has got to be hell on the company's bandwidth bill.We'd say YouTorrent shouldn't have a hard time attracting a buyer with a good monetization plan. But YouTorrent kind of shot themselves in the foot on their way to the auction block. The company has removed the majority of BitTorrent trackers from its index, which means you can now only search 100% free and legal torrent sites like Vuze, BitTorrent, and LegalTorrents. In other words, you won't find any cracked software, or illegal music or movie downloads. Sure, the move will help the service avoid lawsuits, but it will probably dramatically reduce YouTorrent's user base as well, which could make the site a heck of a lot less valuable.
If you're looking for a good YouTorrent clone that doesn't suck, check out NowTorrents or PizzaTorrent.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsyogabbaApr 14th 2008 7:46AM
this is a good article about stuff I care about, thanks for the info Brad
ramonApr 14th 2008 1:34AM
"shot themselves in the food" ???
"Ouch! I just shot myself in my peanut butter jelly sandwich!"
rehbanApr 14th 2008 7:47AM
I'm too hungry to download any torrents now :(
Brad LinderApr 14th 2008 7:51AM
The dangers of blogging late at night. Thanks for catching the items our spllechecker misses!
Hany HannaApr 14th 2008 7:47AM
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are not real food and should be shot.
technophobeApr 14th 2008 7:50AM
Torrentz.com is a good simple alternative
JoshApr 14th 2008 7:50AM
http://scrapetorrent.com
I've backed this site since the first time Lifehacker posted about it and I still do. It's better than any other torrent tracker search out there. If you go back through the YouTorrent posts, I am pretty sure you will see me posting about it in the comments, too.
Doug S.Apr 14th 2008 7:51AM
demonoid is back if you would like to use that site.
jfjbApr 14th 2008 5:52PM
RIP YouTorrent
Life on the fast lane of virtual highways is as fast and as virtual.
Long live your successors' successors' successors' successors
Jona76Apr 18th 2008 8:11AM
Look at http://www.multitorrent.org. Very quickly!
eliMay 9th 2008 7:17AM
fix