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.

 

[Deleted User]

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

Almost every torrent I used worked just fine.

 

[VashTS]

i didnt know torrents were still that popular, cool story

 

[JustAKirby]

Meh.
Piracy is too strong to be stopped by something like this

 

[codezer0]

This blows, considering that it was through torrents that I could watch the original, unfiltered, unabridged versions of the UK Top Gear. KickAss Torrents was where I was able to go for the final season, in 720p and 1080i releases.

Their games torrents tended to be crap for me, but I appreciated their TV show torrents at least.

 

[Bladexdsl]

great a game i want is finally available now i can't get it. fuck you government!

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

than you have no clue how to use it every tor i ever used worked using Utorrent magnet links.

 

[noctis90210]

btjunkie once before is the largest torrent site, it was shutdown...
now the kickasstorrent! lots of great apps/movies/pron there, im thinking now whats the next big general torrent site that will arise?

 

[Xenon Hacks]

Still use ThePirateBay

 

[Reecey]

Does anyone actually still use public torrent sites anymore cause I dropped them about 12 years ago! Get with the times guys if you do before its too late and you cant join anywhere.

 

[Bladexdsl]

PB has fuck all lately

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Does anyone actually still use public torrent sites anymore cause I dropped them about 12 years ago!

when i can't find what i want on USN (like now) i'll use them as a backup

 

[Reecey]

PB has fuck all lately

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when i can't find what i want on USN (like now) i'll use them as a backup

I don't use any public site I never have really. I only need 5 and I'm OK for anything and everything> TV B**, Films P**, Music W*****, Games B** or G*, General R**** that's all I need. Tbh most of the really great private sites are well and truly shut now and only Admin or Owners give invites out so yes its hard to grab an invite unless you want to get ripped off by a back door site!

 

[Bladexdsl]

getting an invite to a private indexer is piss easy you just need to know the right people (i do ) you use all them sites i get all that stuff from 1 site

 

[Logan Pockrus]

I've never even heard of this site up until now. I feel like I might've been missing out.

 

[Reecey]

getting an invite to a private indexer is piss easy you just need to know the right people (i do ) you use all them sites i get all that stuff from 1 site

Unless you know the Owner of the private torrent site, they are certainly not piss easy to get an invite thats why they are private to only let in who they know and buying an invite wont get you in, that will only get you globally banned for life! USN is that a newsgroup site or something? I get all my material from my sites that you wont even find or able to google anywhere on the net!

 

[G3nji]

Im coming to a conclusion that piracy might never stop, and will never be extinguished, unless they make an complete overhaul of the whole internet database that is. On topic: it will probably come back, i remember when megaupload owner got arrested back then and now hes back at it again.

 

[Rizzorules]

At least it wasnt megaupload, oh wait

 

[Thunder Kai]

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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.

I thought this was a rumour

 

[XDel]

The headline should have been "America Ceases Jobs!"

 

[tony_2018]

Thank god KAT was not my go to site....

 

[the_randomizer]

This isn't gonna kill off piracy, nice try government and DMCA-loving sycophants

As for torrents, I haven't downloaded one in a long time for a couple of reasons, one, I use Comcast (which is literally the only fast ISP in my area, all others are far slower, like, a lot slower), I get 50 mbps downloads, sure, but they have a cap of about 400 GB a month. That, and I don't trust torrents, given that they can contain malware, viruses, like, I don't even know if the torrent I'm getting will screw up my OS.

 

[Mikemk]

And people wonder why I use Tribler...
(Only for legal torrents of course...)