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Toronto, Canada (Vocus) September 23, 2009
With students back to college and high school, file sharing activity is once again surging upward. But with the popular Web site The Pirate Bay embroiled in legal and possible-sale struggles, file-sharing pirates may be looking elsewhere for their plunder. One new option is Rocket Torrents, a file-sharing management software, which today announced that it has become the first of its kind to provide instant access to Internets most popular torrents.
The softwares new feature, called Top Torrents, allows users to view constantly-updated torrent download rankings from global activity across all torrent sites, according to the company. Once the desired content is found a user can click once to instantly download the torrent file via a Web site that is hosting it, bypassing the need to search multiple Web sites such as The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt. Top Torrents is found under the Torrents tab in the software interface, beginning with the 5.2.3 software release of Rocket Torrents.
Other companies have been attempting to track this sort of global torrent activity, but the data is usually just syndicated out to Web sites where it quickly becomes outdated, said Paschal Rousseau, a Rocket Torrents developer. Rocket Torrents is the first to provide this data to users, live and in near-real-time, and from right inside the client software.
