Illegal File Search Site YouTorrent Says It's Going Legit
The popular torrent search site YouTorrent, has announced that it is going legit, and is offering itself up for sale, after only four months of leading people to places they could get illegally copied movies, tv shows, and music on the Web (YouTorrent is a meta search engine that indexes other major torrent sites.) In the last four months, the site has become one of the most popular torrent search engines on the 'net, partly due to its slick design and ad free policy. The other reason -- as previously mentioned -- was the massive amounts of illegal material that it linked to.
In an interview with businessweek in London, 'Jon', whose anonymity was part of the agreement to do the interview, said:
"My goal is to be in the top 100 most-visited sites on the Internet in two years," and "If I can corner the torrent market, everyone would rely on the site for profits, just as people look to Google for search-based advertising revenue."
Patrick, a YouTorrent representative, told torrentfreak.com, that "The YouTorrent project has grown very quickly and unfortunately is not in line with the owning company's core business."
Going legit might be this entrepeneur's attempt to make the site palatable for buyers, or it could have been part of the plan from the start. Either way, it will be interesting to see if anyone buys before YouTorrent sinks into irrelevance. [Source: BetaNews]
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