Five Pirate Bay BitTorrent Alternatives  The Pirate Bay we know
and love, though still harbouring torrents for now, is going
away. But that doesn’t mean BitTorrent is dead. Far from it.
Here are five places to get your torrent on after it closes for
good.  Demonoid, besides having a solid community and good
quality torrents—no porn, exceedingly few viruses—also operates
the other major torrent tracker besides The Pirate Bay. (A
tracker is what help makes the whole BitTorrent system work,
since it makes sure every peer’s talking to each other
properly.) It doesn’t have the best selection around, but what
most of what you’ll find there is quality. The catch is that you
need to snag an invitation from a member or when they
periodically dole them out to the public. Mininova’s always one
of our preferred torrent sites—tons of torrents from multiple
trackers, not a lot of crap in the interface, and the search
isn’t bad. Actually, it’s kind of the like The Pirate Bay, but
with less crap and fewer headaches. The catc