Torrents follow the P2P protocol and are the most commonly shared files on the internet. Since torrents share mostly copyrighted material, it is considered illegal in many countries. The torrent sites are blocked in those countries because of copyright issues.
Blocking the torrent sites did not really stop the uses from accessing them. People learned the use of a VPN to access the torrent sites. Some of the torrent sites are not even blocked and are still accessible easily. There are also many proxy and mirror sites of these torrent sites which are easily available to the users.
1. Thepiratebay
The pirate bay is the most popular torrent site available on the internet. It has everything from videos, music, movies, series, games, softwares, books, and whatnot. It has no language boundaries as contents of any language are available. Literally all movies and series in the world are uploaded on Thepiratebay, along with many other things that may not even be available on other torrent sites. The categorization of Thepiratebay is very neat and it’s easy for anyone to find what they are looking for. Thepiratebay has only the magnet link option for downloading the content. The torrents are shown with their Seeders and Leechers numbers so that the user can decide and download the fastest torrent based on the Seeders VS Leechers ratio.
Reaching Thepiratebay may not be an easy task without using a VPN service, but there are many proxy and mirror sites of Thepiratebay which work perfectly well without a VPN software. Sometimes normally googling The Pirate Bay and clicking on the site actually works, yet it is advisable to use VPN to hide from the Internet Service Provider or the authorities.
2. YTS/YIFY
YTS of YIFY is literally the cinephiles’ heaven. Though the original website has been blocked long ago, many proxy sites have come into existence after that. This torrent website is the best one for downloading movies in high quality at a reasonable size. This site mainly has Hollywood movies, but recently they started uploading a lot of foreign language movies as well. YTS torrents are usually very fast and the users need not worry about the downloading speed.
YTS is the most properly organized site ever and the interface is very user friendly. The user can just open the browsing page to randomly select what they want to watch. The browsing page also has a Search box with categories like genre, language, quality, year and even ratings based on IMDb, which can be more helpful for a random search. If the user searches for a particular movie, only one result about the specific movie appears. If the user clicks that result the description, director and casting are also displayed. It also shows the qualities in which the movie is available. The user can either download the torrent or magnet link it to the BitTorrent software. Searching the names of directors or actors on the search box is a good idea to browse movies, as it displays the movies made by them, and the user can choose whatever they want. YTS also has its own subtitle downloading website, called the YTS Subtitles.
3. Limetorrents
Limetorrents is a popular torrent site, which is very much similar to Thepiratebay. Even the categorization of the Limetorrents is a lot like Thepiratebay. It has torrents for a lot of categories like movies, games, series, etc. The search results also display the Seeders VS Leechers ratio, so that the user can download the fastest torrent. The only difference is that Thepiratebay offers only the magnet links for the torrents, whereas with Limetorrents the user can download and keep the torrent for later use.
4. RARBG
RARBG is another torrent site that has almost everything. It is the fourth most visited torrent website, as of April 2020. RARBG is well known for its active community and intensive seeding, as a result, the downloads from this website are very fast compared to the other sites.
RARBG has a lot of other interesting things than just torrents. It has a Box Office section for the recent hit movies. It also has a Top 10 section for the top 10 downloaded content in various categories like movies, series, games, etc. The best part is the News section where they upload all the latest movie-related news.
5. 1337X
1337X is much like the RARBG site. It has separate sections for movies, series, applications, anime, games, etc. It also has a News section like RARBG, for posting the latest movie news. 1337X is the second most visited torrent website, right after Thepiratebay. It also launched its official forum in March 2020.
6. EZTV
EZTV is the ultimate torrent site for downloading the TV series. Almost all the Hollywood and English language series are available on EZTV. This website has TV shows in the best possible quality available. The best thing is that all the seasons and episodes of a particular series are available at one place and the user need not waste their time searching them elsewhere.
The search box of this site has a drop-down list of all the series available on the website. If the user starts typing the name of a particular series, then the name of the series is displayed on the list if it is available. When the user clicks on the name of the particular series the results show the list of all the episodes available in all the qualities. The torrents have the magnet links as well as the download option.
7. Kickass/KAT
Kickass or KAT was once the most visited torrent website and took over Thepiratebay in 2014. Later due to the copyright issues, the original website, along with its proxy sites, was shut down completely in 2016. Yet again in 2016 itself, they launched another site under the same name and it is easily accessible to date.
Kickass also has torrents for almost everything. On its Home page, there are lists of the popular downloads in each section like movies, TV shows, music, games, etc. It has a Latest Searches sidebar which shows the common and latest searches from the other users. Kickass has both the magnet link and download option for the torrents.
