The Pirate Bay Alternatives

The Pirate Bay has laid claim to the title of galaxy’s most resilient torrent site for as long as anyone can remember. And for good reason.

It’s one of the rare torrent sites that have managed to come back from the dead not just once but multiple times.

There’s a high chance that you’ve visited The Pirate Bay if you consider yourself a regular torrent user. Judging by the number of people who visit The Pirate Bay to download torrents for applications, games, e-books, movies and other content, The Pirate Bay is a famous website in any category.

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However, the problem with the content on The Pirate Bay is that most of it is copyrighted. If you live in a country with strict copyright protections then downloading something from The Pirate Bay can get you in serious trouble. That’s also the reason why law enforcement agencies continue to work hard to shut it down.

To help you deal with any outages that The Pirate Bay experiences, we’ll take a look at the best alternatives to the site. Let’s get started.

DISCLAIMER:

Security Gladiators in no way encourages or condones any kind of copyright violation or circumvention of restrictions. That includes torrenting or downloading illegal content. Torrenting is a great way to access and share all kinds of content on the internet and there are plenty of opportunities there to engage in legal and safe online torrenting. You need to do your own research to see if these services and torrents are legal in your own country. We suggest to always use a VPN while torrenting.

1337x

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1337x is the most reliable alternative to The Pirate Bay with its huge content library that includes all types of documentaries, movies, TV series and video games. The interface is simple and an account on the site lets you use advanced torrenting features like Favorites.

LimeTorrents

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For all practical purposes, LimeTorrents has become a heavy-hitter in the torrent industry. It offers a large number of torrents in categories such as TV shows, video games, applications and movies.

LimeTorrents is very good at allowing users to search their torrents or use the Category buttons to efficiently discover new content.

Zooqle

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Zooqle tries its best to offer users the same features for searching movies, TV series, applications and games as The Pirate Bay. For the most part, it’s successful in doing so.

It offers RSS feeds and the ability to create an account via which users can follow the latest torrent uploads on the site.

Katcr.co

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Katcr.co is the latest incarnation of the amazingly well-built KickassTorrents. With KickassTorrents gone, this alternative to The Pirate Bay is doing its best to make sure that people can still access their favorite torrent files.

Even if Katcr.co can’t match the tremendous searching features of the original KickassTorrents, it still provides users with advanced torrent sorting criteria such as date of upload, peers, seeds and age among others.

TorLock

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Torlock is a relatively unknown The Pirate Bay alternative which is a shame because it’s very good. In addition to advanced sorting features, it offers users a Health bar alongside every torrent which can provide useful information about the validity and download-ability of a given torrent file. Thanks to such features, the chances of downloading a fake torrent are very low.

Conclusion

There’s no doubt that The Pirate Bay is indeed the best of the bunch among torrent sites but it occasionally goes offline. Therefore, we’ve provided you with a list of the very best The Pirate Bay alternatives that you should use any time you see The Pirate Bay go offline.

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Zohair A. Zohair is currently a content crafter at Security Gladiators and has been involved in the technology industry for more than a decade. He is an engineer by training and, naturally, likes to help people solve their tech related problems. When he is not writing, he can usually be found practicing his free-kicks in the ground beside his house.
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