YouTorrent

YouTorrent

URL	youtorrent.com
Type of site	Torrent search engine
Launched	December 2007
Current status	online

YouTorrent is a BitTorrent search engine which allows parallel searches on different torrent search engines.

As of April 14, 2008, YouTorrent changed from searching all torrent sites to only sites which provide licensed, certified content. This change angered many, and caused most of its users to leave the site.^[1]

1 History
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

History

The YouTorrent.com domain was bought for $20,000. It originally searched torrents on The Pirate Bay.^[2]

References

^ Frommer, Dan (2008-04-14). "BitTorrent Search Engine Kicks Out The Pirates. What's It Worth?". Silicon Valley Insider. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
^ Business Week article on YouTorrent

External links

BitTorrent

Companies	BitTorrent, Inc. Vuze, Inc.

People	Eric Klinker Bram Cohen Ashwin Navin Ross Cohen

Technology	Broadcatching Distributed hash tables DNA index Peer exchange Protocol encryption Super-seeding Tracker Vocabulary Torrent file µTP

Clients (comparison, usage share)	BitTorrent (original client) BitComet BitSpirit BitTornado Deluge KTorrent LimeWire Miro MLDonkey qBittorrent rTorrent Shareaza Transmission µTorrent Vuze (formerly Azureus) Xunlei

Tracker software (comparison)	opentracker PeerTracker XBT Tracker EasyTracker

Open Trackers	OpenBitTorrent PublicBitTorrent

Search engines (comparison)	BTDigg Burnbit EZTV FlixFlux isoHunt KickassTorrents Mininova Seedpeer The Pirate Bay Torrentz yourBittorrent YouTorrent What.CD

Defunct websites	BTJunkie LokiTorrent OiNK TorrentSpy Suprnova Demonoid BitGamer

Related topics	aXXo BitTorrent Open Source License MPAA Peer Media Technologies TorrentFreak Slyck.com

Contents

History

See also

References

External links