With the soaring popularity of BitTorrent, torrent mongers now have a wide selection of sites to choose from. We can’t think of a better way to aid and abet its growing success than to put out a list of private BitTorrent websites. So ditch those public sites and start narrowing in on what you really need.

Nowhere on the Internet could we find a big list of sports torrent sites - this was badly overdue. This list was compiled from hours of searching through P2P forums and other obscure links. Poker sites are not included.

Know of a Sports Torrent site that’s not on the list? Post it in the comments!

SPORTS TORRENT SITES

www.sport-scene.net

— OPEN? - YES.Members: 8,072 / 10,000.Minimum Ratio: 0.5 / 1.0.# of Torrents: 1,623.Features: Every sport imaginable, some in HD. Fresh content, updated daily.

www.sportbit.org

— OPEN? - NO.Members: 12,006 / 12,000.Ratio: 0.5 / 1.0.# of Torrents: 1,588.Features: Unknown - not open to new registrations at this time.

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When it comes to the Internet, no matter how overt and honest people are, we don’t want our privacy to be invaded. While President Bush may defend domestic eavesdropping, it doesn’t mean you should. Things have gone from bad to worse - why, we can’t even send an email without worrying about it being intercepted. Every site we visit, every facebook or hotmail login, every search in a browser - it’s all recorded, logged and saved in giant datastore farms, surreptitiously laying-in-wait for that one day where it’s all dragged out and thrown back in our faces. It’s anyone’s guess who’ll be granted access to this datamine down the road.

An exact copy of all Internet traffic that flowed through critical AT&T cables — e-mails, documents, pictures, Web browsing, voice-over-Internet phone conversations, everything — was being diverted to equipment inside the secret room,” - Mark Klein, a 20-year veteran for AT&T, referring to the sixth floor (secret room) in which the U.S. Government & NSA have unconditional access. According to Mr. Klein, there are 15 - 20 more buildings just like it across America, set up the same way. This is just the tip of the iceberg - there aren’t many whistleblowers like Klein that “leak” sensitive information such as this.

Whilst there’s not much one can do about Big Brother™ and his Orwellian cohorts from videotaping you at the local convenience store, or taking pictures of your licence plate at every street corner, or even RFIDing your next born - the least we can do is not let it happen to us in our own living room.

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