{"id":1340,"date":"2011-08-28T23:09:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T16:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2011-08-28T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T16:09:46","slug":"top-10-largest-file-sharing-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/top-10-largest-file-sharing-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Largest File-Sharing Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BitTorrent is no longer the dominant player when it comes to file-sharing on the Internet. The five largest English language websites dedicated to swapping files are all related to centralized file-hosting services, also known as cyberlockers. The Pirate Bay and Torrentz are the only BitTorrent sites that managed to secure a spot in the top 10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1341\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/top-10-largest-file-sharing-sites\/torrent\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?fit=522%2C439&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"522,439\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"torrent\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?fit=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?fit=522%2C439&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1341\" title=\"torrent\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=522%2C439&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?w=522&amp;ssl=1 522w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: TorrentFreak.com<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fmoui.net%2Fblog%2F2011%2F08%2Ftop-10-largest-file-sharing-sites%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitTorrent is no longer the dominant player when it comes to file-sharing on the Internet. The five largest English language websites dedicated to swapping files are all related to centralized file-hosting services, also known as cyberlockers. The Pirate Bay and Torrentz are the only BitTorrent sites that managed to secure a spot in the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,101],"tags":[316,683,315],"class_list":["post-1340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-intellectual-property","tag-file-sharing","tag-internet-censorship","tag-torrent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?fit=522%2C439&ssl=1","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1",100,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?fit=522%2C439&ssl=1",522,439,false]},"categories_names":{"3":{"name":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"101":{"name":"Intellectual Property","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/category\/intellectual-property\/"}},"tags_names":{"316":{"name":"File-Sharing","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/file-sharing\/"},"683":{"name":"Internet Censorship","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/internet-censorship\/"},"315":{"name":"Torrent","link":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/tag\/torrent\/"}},"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1",100,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=305%2C207&ssl=1",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=400%2C439&ssl=1",400,439,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=522%2C439&ssl=1",522,439,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=522%2C439&ssl=1",522,439,true],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?resize=130%2C95&ssl=1",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/torrent.jpg?fit=522%2C439&ssl=1",522,439,false]},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmP7-lC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moui.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}