Awesome alternatives to kickass torrents

It's a dark time for torrenters with kickass shutting down a few weeks ago and now Torrentz, the best torrent meta search engine shutting down after 13 years of service a couple of days back without any specific reason.

Many may say it's the end of internet piracy. But certainly it's not. There are still a lot of ways to download/stream movies and tv shows, download games and music, download videos like those in your "hidden folder".

So let's get to the main part of this article, the reason why you started to read this in the first place. 

Here are some alternatives to kickass torrents :

1. 1337x This is certainly not a replacement for kat. But it's quite good and usable. It doesn't have the best search and sorting features but still a great alternative to kat.

2. Extratorrent Again not the greatest, but usable. Quick uploads and most of the popular torrents have a lot of seeders. Good search but a lot of popup ads.

3. Isohunt 

A kickass clone is still working fine, but many believe its a honeypot. I would recommend refraining for using it.

Apart from these P2P websites, there are a few open directories which have a lot of tv shows and movies available for you to download. Here's a subreddit dedicated to open directories. 

Before downloading from any of the open directories do read the comments on that particular post. Sometimes they help out a lot.