The Pirate Bay is probably the best known BitTorrent brand in P2P world. Hence there is no need to put up or introduce here anymore.

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But there are a lot more torrent sites out there which you may overlook.

Below I have compiled a list of 10 most popular torrent sites of 2012.

The list is based on user rating and vote taken from popular BitTorrent forum and my personal experience.

You can take this as The Pirate Bay alternative torrent sites.

Top 10 most popular torrent search engine of 2012:

The Pirate Bay

#1 Torrentz

Torrentz is a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of torrent search engines. [Link]

#2 Torrentscan

Search all the best sites with one single search bar. [Link]

#3 NowTorrents

Find all the best torrents online in real-time! NowTorrents is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. [Link]

#4 Usniff

Download torrents at usniff.com torrent search engine. The usniff torrent search engine searches for bittorrents on multiple sites. [Link]

#5 TorrentButler

Find movies to watch visually. Features posters, cast, synopsis and trailers alongside torrent download links, and more. [Link]

#6 isoHunt

Bit Torrent search engine, with an awesome P2P community sharing comments and ratings in discovering new media. [Link]

#7 KickassTorrents

Search and download new TV shows & TV series, movies, mp3, music and PC/PS2/PSP/Wii/Xbox games absolutely for free. [Link]

#8 Fenopy

Fast and easy torrent downloads. [Link]

#9 ScrapeTorrent

A clean and intuitive torrent search engine that combines all the major torrent search sites into a single page of search results. [Link]

#10 Torlock

TorLock is a fast BitTorrent search engine that only lists verified torrents. [Link]

If I have missing any of your favorite torrent sites, your comment are most welcome.

On the other hand, I had compiled a list of popular legal torrent site on the net which available here.

UPDATE: New list of 10 popular torrent sites of 2013, a must read list here.