Torrent meta-search engine

Guess they aren't going with the plausible deniability legal route.

From a legal aspect, how is this going to last at all? IANAL but I was under the impression most meta-search engines operated in at least a semi-grey area because they don't spoon feed illegal content to you. Most just index the big trackers and (conveniently) don't discriminate between illegal and legal content. I feel like when you are dropping torrents into buckets more specific than "video" and "audio" (e.g. linking multiple torrents to a specific movie, highlighting the HD versions) any conventional argument against aiding copyright infringement is out the window.<p>Awesome site though.

This will be taken down sooner or later, while no legal alternatives¹ exist in many countries. Ridiculous. Movie industry: Okay, apparently you don't want my money, that's fine, but then please don't complain about piracy.<p>[1] Cross-platform, HD quality, easy to use, etc.

"Takedown Policy Please include the full URLs to the infringing material; no categories or search queries. We follow the same takedown policy that Google uses." etc, etc<p>OK. So basically: want to take down something? try go faster than ligth's speed...<p>Funny

Aesthetically and technically this is very nicely done. But in terms of usability I actually find a plain list of movie names easier to parse - unless it lacks critical information and is drowned in ads like on most torrent aggregators...<p>My favorite interface is the "Overview"-mode in the iTunes store. I wish all content sites would look like this (in case you don't know it, scroll all the way down, then click Functions/Overview).

Tie in rotten tomatoes reviews and you've got a torrent butler with taste.

Looks nice. I bet the attorneys think it looks even nicer.

If they're going to link directly to torrents anyway (and thus discard any shred of legal deniability), could they link <i>more directly</i> to the torrents? If there was a button on/around the movie poster itself that linked directly to whatever they/users considered the "best" version of the torrent, that'd be helpful. Half of my problem with torrent aggregators like ISOHunt is deciding which version is actually going to be closest to my preferences (720p English MP4 with soft-subs/captions.)

The fact they use a hushmail address for contacting them made me actually laugh out loud.

The design is terrible. I don't care about cover art. I want to quickly find what I'm looking for.

If this is all automated as they claim, that's a hell of a good job. Poster, length, rating, credits, synopsis and trailer, everything one could ask for. And then they throw a full-sized screencap as the page background. Brilliant.

I’ll assume that this is a way to promote a global licensing solution — a great one, because the site actually manages to give iTunes a run for its money.<p>What surprized me was the lack of ranking by note. Assuming the legal challenges are overcame, I would also enjoy being able to have two lists: “Already seen” and “Would like to see” (that might include films not available yet, or even un-financed projects) to parse it all better. If they manage to make those lists work with my cinema subscription (I pay every month for a all-you-can-go-out-and-see plan) I’d be happy to spend more on that then most would pay for cable.

Would be extra cool with some sort of "sort by IMDB-rating"-function attached

Awesome site but it's too flashy. My guess is that it'll draw too much attention and have to be taken down even though I would love a torrent site that doesn't make my eye's bleed.

How is this <i>at all</i> newsworthy? There's more sites like this than grains of sand on a beach...

This looks similar to myriads of Chinese websites (not the design, but the selection of hit movies by cover art). Many Chinese sites serve up streaming videos directly in the browser. They are too slow to be usable abroad so I guess they avoid litigation that way.

It'd be nice if it included info about best release type available, right where is the [HD] icon.

looks great, but the trailer covers the SD links.<p>(Chrome, OS X)

Judging by the amount of Russian covers for Western movies, I'm guessing the site is based in Russia - in which case they probably have quite a safe haven against copyright take-down etc.

damn you [developer of this], had this idea pending for the longest time. yeah, I know this crowd knows this line too much.<p>Anyway, my approach would be different by a single feature: movie sync. I've already watched many of the movies listed, and would be great to give you my imdb rating public url and you filtering those out. You could even implement a basic recommendation system using my ratings to give best matches.<p>Hope you can keep this service up.

This really should be a desktop app rather than a website. That way, it couldn't be taken down, especially if the code was open sourced.

Cool idea. I'd like to see an IMDB link somewhere on the page and perhaps partnerships with private trackers?

It'd look a lot nicer without those social media icons there.

I find it very useful without the torrent part as well.

Okay, I just wanna say that is good design :D

wow, impressive. They should add the Metacritic score for each flick, that would be incredibly useful.

I love the interface. I give you my up-vote.

It's a trap!

OK. Is that Iran? (kidding)