![]() The list is based on various traffic reports. If proxy sites and alternative domains were taken into account, The Pirate Bay and others would rank higher.īelow is the full list of the top ten most-visited torrent site domains at the start of the new year. We have limited the list to English-language torrent sites, which means that sites such as, , and .kr are not included, despite the fact that they have substantial traffic numbers.įinally, we have to stress that the yearly ranking is based on single domain names. If we had to signal a trend, we would point out that niche sites are becoming more popular, relatively speaking. The two newcomers replace TorrentGalaxy and LimeTorrents, which remain online but were simply surpassed in traffic terms. The new entrants are a pair of gaming-focused sites and. The annual list of popular torrent sites features well-known brands, and this year there are some notable additions. That’s quite an achievement when considering that the site only lists movie torrents. The main YTS domain name continues to draw millions of visitors per day. BitSight's Attack Surface Analytics reporting can help you scan and secure your third party networks for potential exposure.YTS remains at the top of the list in 2023, despite the fact that the site and its users were subjected to various lawsuits in recent years. Now that the shift to remote work and bring-your-own-device policies have exposed organizations to more risk, cybersecurity teams are monitoring for and responding to threats introduced from employee's home network devices. There is one point you should bear in mind no matter how many torrent websites are taken down, the risks of peer-to-peer torrenting still exist. On one hand, you may want to allow staff to torrent legitimate content like Linux distributions, but on the other you may wish to block some content to avoid legal and network risks. It’s a clear result.Ĭreating a policy for staff torrenting on your network can be a balance. The bottom line is that companies that have more torrenting on their network have more botnets. The vertical axis is the monthly count of botnet infections per employee, the horizontal axis is the monthly count of torrents per employee. Obviously, the larger a company, the more torrents you would expect to see, so this must be factored into the analysis. If torrents have a high rate of malware infection, you’d expect to see companies that torrent more have more botnets. BitSight found a very high malware infection rate for torrented applications (43%) and games (39%). The really ugly part comes from the risk of running torrented executables on the corporate network. At best, it’s a nuisance and diversion of IT resources. For a company, complying with the terms of these legal letters means hunting down content and removing it from the corporate network. Once these IP addresses are tracked back to companies or individuals, copyright enforcement agencies send legal letters. ![]() Copyright holders are understandably keen to protect their revenue, so copyright alerting systems exist to locate IP addresses torrenting copyrighted content. If a company’s employees are using the corporate network to torrent, this is a misappropriation of a company’s computing resources, but worse than that is the legal risk. ![]() ![]() It’s no secret that large volumes of copyrighted materials are being shared via torrents. The bad part comes with the sharing of copyrighted content. But it’s not just legitimate software that’s being shared there are companies using the technology to share copyright-free media content such as independent movies. For the same reasons, some companies are experimenting with torrents for software distribution. This has made it a popular means of quickly sharing Linux distributions and other large open-source systems. Torrent technology is great for sharing large files - it’s easy, fast, and resilient. In this post, I want to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of torrents. Just because some sites have gone down, doesn’t mean you don’t have to care about torrents on your network. Torrenting is a peer-to-peer technology that doesn’t have a single point of failure. But the absence of these sites doesn’t mean torrents have stopped. A number of leading torrent websites have gone offline recently, drawing attention again to the use of torrents to share copyrighted material.
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