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KickAss torrents ( kat . ph ) used to be better than it is today. It still has a good bit of content, but seedpools get anemic quickly. Got a lot of ebooks & ezines there over the years.
With teh Big D going offline for "a while" ... who knows? KAT might pick up a bit of content and more Olde Schoole, dedicated seedfags. Certainly worth looking at and watching over the coming weeks to see if some of the community migrates over to there & gives a bit more love back.
No reg required, it's got fully public content. Haven't checked for a while; not sure if they have a private side these days. I do know that if you are searching for something or come across a dead torrent, do a couple extra searches with different string combos and follow some of the associated/related links. Often there are two or five copies of certain titles that were put up by different folks at different times and some stay alive while others die.
If you're into live music bootlegs and other copyright-free (or, "gray-enough" zone copyright), music-related (live concert videos, radio/TV broadcast bootlegs, etc.), there's a fantastic community with a rich archive that goes back for years ... they operate on a very similar philosophy to BBT, but are otaku for music rather than anime: Mind-Warp PaVilion mindwarppavilion . org
I haven't been active there for a couple years (under a different nick than here) ... but they are (at least, were, hopefully still are) a great group of people from around the world sharing their love for music. Terabytes of rare and unreleased studio & concert audio & video. Reg appears to still be open to all.
