Wow, I was checking today if YouTorrent was still up since I expect this search engine to be shut down any day now, and then I saw a post on their site announcing "300,000 searches/day" – impressive. They mention that they will 500,000 searches/day this month.

I understand how people think that everything should be free but at the same time I really don’t, specially when I see my own software being downloaded and cracked. What is this human notion that effort and ambition should be paid off by just stealing your results – this has nothing to do with freedom of speech or your rights.

Clearly some of you will put me against the wall and mention CherryOS, and say what about that incident – "cmon" I say! I wish I could give you all the facts and you would finally see more then some amplified facts that make up your judgement but I have not the right to do so, not yet.

What I am trying to say is that it is not responsible to create search engines or torrent engines that allow users to grab a hold of anything they want, even if it is possible. You think you are born with a right that people owe you something? Again, I just don’t get it.

Don’t understand me wrong, I like the fact that 3rd world countries have an option to utilize amazing software and content – but be realistic, how many of the 500,000 searches a day are them – would love to see those stats being posted by YouTorrent, give me some demographics please.

Why not unite and force the big Ms to agree to a deal – a deal that gives free licenses and access to the none privileged? Use our strength and power not to boost our ego (that’s what I understand from the post below), but to actually heal it.

From their blog:

1. We have passed 300,000 searches / day, we are on course to hit 500,000 by the end of February (thanks for your support guys!)

2. We have made the Digg front page three times:

http://digg.com/software/YouTorrent_Great_New_BitTorrent_Search_Engine
http://digg.com/tech_news/YouTorrent_Give_It_A_Shot_Before_It_s_Shut_Down
http://lifehacker.com/350405/top-10-bittorrent-tools-and-tricks

3. We made TechCrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/19/youtorrent-give-it-a-shot-before-its-shut-down/

4. We made the top 10 alexa movers and shakers.

As you can see, this is very exciting news for YouTorrent! As far as new features go, we have now added engine customization and improved a few things. Soon you will be able to group torrents by hash, as well as do much more advanced searching. Stay tuned folks.

P.S. If you thought the news above was good, we promise you there is some even more incredible news around the corner