[1] It was available as an alternative and successor for the closed Torrentz.eu and KickassTorrents sites,[2] and its index included over 8 million torrent files, and had a clean, simple interface.

[3] Beyond allowing torrent files of popular films, it also carried self-produced content.

[4] It had an API that allowed the search function to be integrated into applications,[5] and the news-site TorrentFreak suggested that it could have allowed streaming in the future.

[6] It had adopted the Torrents Time plugin.

The torrentproject.com URL was part of a 2014 United Kingdom High Court decision, which ordered it to be blocked.