Copyright holders rejoice! The largest torrent site on earth has been taken down by the US government a few days back. After posing as an advertiser they managed to trace the money back to a Ukrainian guy, Artem Vaulin. It's quite the story really, check out the full article here.

What do you think is going to happen now? Is this a hard blow to piracy or are most people just going to use another site? Will there always be another site to take the lead? Discuss.

 

[weatMod]

Middle of nowhere. Only cable internet has a 350GB cap.

wow i didn't know we still had companies doing caps in this country (officially)i guess when you live in the middle of nowhere with no competition they can do what ever they want to you

 

[ceelo]

Wow I haven't had to use this in a long time but

Use this: http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

Its better.

 

[gudenau]

Give it a week, there will be a replacement to fill the void.

 

[zoogie]

Goddamn what is happening

This year's megaupload.

Piracy life will continue, more news at 11.

because the industry is so full of itself that it actually thinks anyone wants to "pirate" their crap
what a joke they have their heads so far up their own asses they actually think their declining revenues are due to "piracy"
and not to the absolute shit tier garbage that they are churning out day after day year after year
their content quality has been on steady decline for decades now to put it mildly

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what pat of the country? why can't you get a decent cable connection?

While you typed this, 71 terabytes of copyrighted content nobody wanted was downloaded.
Them sour grapes tasty yo.

 

[pastaconsumer]

Mirror is already up.
They have a Change.org petition and Whitehouse.gov petition.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Pirate bay here i come

 

[Pluupy]

Use this: http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

Its better.

How is that better? lol

Not only do you need to go to an external site filled with adverts, but you need to click a dumb flash button.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I thought that ThePirateBay was the largest?

 

[weatMod]

This year's megaupload.

Piracy life will continue, more news at 11.

While you typed this, 71 terabytes of copyrighted content nobody wanted was downloaded.
Them sour grapes tasty yo.

thats the thing half the time i DL shit i find out i never wanted it int he 1st place
i never really use torrents anymore though, only for software

 

[GoodCookie88]

rip

 

[Lightyose]

Pierat Bae Always worked 4 mii

 

[Bladexdsl]

so that's why it won[t load....
PB doesn't work either keeps saying maintenance come back in 10 mins when you search?!

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I thought that ThePirateBay was the largest?

that place sux now

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

Yeah, noticed this yesterday. Pissed me off. One of my favorite sites. Even better than TPB.

 

[Xanthe]

Damn, that was my favorite torrenting site :/ Long live KAT

 

[CitizenSnips]

Rest in peace KAT It was my favorite site

 

[DKB]

Back to TPB, I guess. ;/

 

[The Catboy]

Just because they cut of one head, doesn't mean they killed the beast

 

[Deleted User]

I thought that ThePirateBay was the largest?

Me too, but I never really liked TPB. I only went there when I couldn't find something on KAT or KAT was down.
I was actually using KAT at the moment of the takedown. One second it was up, then I searched for something and it was gone.

 

[Xanthe]

Back to TPB, I guess. ;/

Sadly enough. Their search is absolute shit. Very case sensitive. It pisses me off if I'm being honest

 

[WiiUBricker]

Kickass had hardly torrents that actually worked anyway. So good riddance.