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.

 

[DinohScene]

I barely used it in all honesty .-.

 

[FAST6191]

our isps don't block shit we do whatever the fuck we want here

I thought last year they passed a rule that would allow it. http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/...acy-websiteblocking-laws-20150622-ghuorh.html

Equally that the anti porn firewall thing went as far as it did, and though it got blown way out of proportion the a cup thing was a strange one.

Alternatively they don't have to block anything; with the speeds and bandwidth limits it is a wonder Australia is considered online at all, unless you count the NBN.... haha I am amuse myself sometimes.

 

[Captain_N]

Well that sux. I used KAT mostly. Im sure it will be back. There is one thing that never seems to get taken down and that's Newsgroups

 

[GreaterDog]

you can just go on a tor network and type in the .onion link to go in kickass :^/

 

[Xanthe]

if only you understood!

If only you could provide context

 

[Deleted-379826]

RIP

Not a big deal though, more things to come

 

[tbb043]

Honestly never heard of them. I'm not big into torrents though. Only torrent site I use is a private site with wrestling content and even that I don't use as much since the WWE Network came along at a reasonable monthly price vs what the PPV's cost via cable. All my game, tv, movie stuff I get from boards with downloads hosted on places such as mega and the like.

In other words, while this isn't good news, it's certainly not directly affecting my own copyright infringement. MegaUpload going down was a much bigger deal, since my old main place until then used it almost exclusively, and never came back after it went down, it's just discussions now, no dl's.

 

[Deleted User]

All ISP's block torrent sites anyway.
Unless you had a work around, torrents have been useless for a while really..

Uh, no? Telus doesn't block much of anything. In fact I don't think they block anything at all.

personally, I use t411, a private tracker, and when I don't find stuff i want, I used to go to KAT. I'll have to find alternatives or wait for a comeback.

I thought t411 was public?

 

[kumikochan]

It's already back.

 

[Saiyan Lusitano]

Been using KAT for a while and it sucks. Welp, gotta go back to PirateBay and EZTV.

 

[YugamiSekai]

Welp, there goes my Dragon Ball Super source.

 

[TragicKnight]

Never really got into KAT as I've been using tpb for like 11 years and it has never failed me. Even if it's taken down it always comes back. They honestly need to realize that they can't stop it. No matter what you do, take one down and seven more will take it's place.

 

[Noctosphere]

Uh, no? Telus doesn't block much of anything. In fact I don't think they block anything at all.

I thought t411 was public?

t411 uses a ratio system and you need to subscribe to their website in order to download their torrent, so I though that make it private, right?

 

[jDSX]

I use kat myself and after using it for so long now, I am surprised in a way that it got shut down the way that it did. Though I would like to say if you cut down one of them more will pop up and I believe TPB sum it up best with this pic:

Also a proxy is on apparently but I wouldn't start to cheer and use it anytime soon. Keep safe out there and stick it to the man.

 

[Bladexdsl]

I thought last year they passed a rule that would allow it.

nope nothing is blocked here i can access any site normally

 

[smf]

nice try hollywood but people are still not buying your crap anymore

If it's crap then why would you break the law and risk prosecution to download it?

you can just go on a tor network and type in the .onion link to go in kickass :^/

I got the impression that they were in the process of seizing all the computers, I assumed that the tor hidden service was running on the public server. They used an onion address to stop the sites being blocked, not to hide where the server was. I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did, they don't seem to have even tried to hide. With ex-tor developers working for American law enforcement & providing them with exploits, I don't see tor being good protection in the future either.

No matter what you do, take one down and seven more will take it's place.

That is a rather specific number. I don't doubt that other sites will try to take it's place, however that isn't a reason for them to stop. If they just keep going after the high profile site that makes the most money then it serves their purposes. Your post sounds to me like a threat to make them stop, which I infer means you are worried that they could be effective.

Law enforcement isn't about stopping everyone from breaking the law, it's about creating a deterrent to the majority of people.

t411 uses a ratio system and you need to subscribe to their website in order to download their torrent, so I though that make it private, right?

If random members of the public, including law enforcement agents, can sign up. Then how private do you think it is? Private sites are so low profile that you won't have heard about them.

I suspect that a distributed system that isn't based on bittorrent will eventually be developed.

 

[GreaterDog]

i mean there is pirate bay soooo LOL

 

[Bladexdsl]

there is still kickasstorrents.website soooo LOL

 

[MDashK]

After reading the article....
-snip-

 

[kumikochan]

Kickass will be back up and running after it's taken down completely. it happened with piratebay and others. Plus i usually use Rutracker most anyway.