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The Torrent Project or Torrent Search Project was a metasearch engine for torrent files, which consolidated links from other popular torrent hosting pages such as ExtraTorrent. [1] It was available as an alternative and successor for the closed Torrentz.eu and KickassTorrents sites, [2] and its index included over 8 million torrent files, and had a clean, simple interface. [3] Beyond allowing torrent files of popular films, it also carried self-produced content. [4] It had an API that allowed the search function to be integrated into applications, [5] and the news-site TorrentFreak suggested that it could have allowed streaming in the future. [6] It had adopted the Torrents Time plugin. [7]


The torrentproject.com URL was part of a 2014 United Kingdom High Court decision, which ordered it to be blocked. [8] The site shut down on 4 Sep 2017. [9] It is not clear whether TorrentProject will return. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Cosa ci resta, ora che è stato chiuso anche Torrentz.eu - Wired". Wired (in Italian). 2016-08-05. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  2. ↑ "P2P: addio al metamotore di Torrentz.eu". PC Professionale (in Italian). 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  3. ↑ "7 alternativas a Torrentz.eu". El Grupo Informático (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  4. ↑ "Siti torrent | I migliori motori di ricerca per scaricare film torrent | File torrent". thebizloft.com (in Italian). 2016-08-09. Archived from the original on 2016-10-27. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  5. ↑ "Daily API RoundUp: Hutoma, TorrentProject, Dealhunt, 2Factor". ProgrammableWeb. Archived from the original on 2016-10-29. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  6. ↑ "Nå er The Pirate Bay blitt til verdens største streaming-nettside". Dagbladet.no. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  7. ↑ "Kickass Torrents Follows In Footsteps of The Pirate Bay, Adds Support for Torrents Time". Christian Post. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  8. ↑ "Record Labels Obtain Order to Block 21 Torrent Sites - TorrentFreak". TorrentFreak. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  9. ↑ "403 Forbidden". torrentproject.se. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  10. ↑ Van der Sar, Ernesto (2017-09-01). "Torrent Sites Suffer DDoS Attacks and Other Trouble". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
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