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.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Any of you ever get those email notices, warning you about torrenting?

Until I went private, I got a few.

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In b4 it's an opportunist site filled with spyware

The original wasn't that much different...once went there on my phone and had to take the battery out and restart

 

[Kippykip]

How the hell will I get 1990 Winnie the Pooh games ISOs now?

 

[TeamScriptKiddies]

This won't stick, not if the guy is in the Ukraine, good luck XD

 

[Haggar]

This won't stick, not if the guy is in the Ukraine, good luck XD

I'm not so sure. The U.S. will know exactly whose arm to twist to get what they want.

I hope KAT makes a comeback but it seems unlikely right now. Although I use various private trackers, I used KAT quite a bit and now I find myself using thepiratebay.org & extratorrent.cc.

It's unreal how much taxpayers' money the U.S. spends on copyright infringement issues.

 

[Captain_N]

Any of you ever get those email notices, warning you about torrenting?

No. Do you mean from your isp? or from a Kickass torrent site account?

I think Russia and Ukraine have alot of Pirated contend hosted. Sometimes i use Direct Connect and most of the russian hubs have Petabyte shares.
One guy has a uber share of 360TB. That was months ago tho. Most i see now is 54 TB for a single share

 

[Deleted User]

This won't stick, not if the guy is in the Ukraine, good luck XD

he was arrested in poland

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Well, after Megaupload died, we got alternatives, so I guess we'll be fine in the long run. Right now through it'll get a bit annoying to find a massive public tracker like that, although The Penguin Bar still works, it has been very unstable too.

Basically, we'll get an alternative soon and people will move to it, it's a hard blow, but it's not a big deal IMO.

Megaupload wasn't even a piracy site, staff actually took down copyrighted content. The founder only got arrested because John Key is a tri hard.

 

[Bladexdsl]

Any of you ever get those email notices, warning you about torrenting?

nope we do whatever the fuck we want here

 

[RevPokemon]

he was arrested in poland

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Megaupload wasn't even a piracy site, staff actually took down copyrighted content. The founder only got arrested because John Key is a tri hard.

Plus the MPAA and RIAA are huge lobbyist groups whch gives them a certain say so sadly.

 

[Deleted User]

It's back already. I don't think I can link it, but it's just the old URL. Instead of ending with .cr it ends with .am

I think I'll stick with Demonoid for now until we're sure it's safe.

 

[FAST6191]

Megaupload wasn't even a piracy site, staff actually took down copyrighted content. The founder only got arrested because John Key is a tri hard.

Is that like the time I deliberately set out to kill someone but still phoned an ambulance which technically meant they had a hope?

 

[Bladexdsl]

I think I'll stick with Demonoid for now until we're sure it's safe.

according to this it's safe

 

[somewhereovertherainbow]

In sweden we have an expression.
"Loved Child has many names"

KickassTorrent Online proxies
https://proxyportal.org/kickass


KickassTorrent different URLs
https://kickass.immunicity.top/
https://kat.al/

- Dont forget to use Adblock too -

 

[Nyap]

inb4 new kickasstorrents is a trap made by the us gov and thousands are raided

 

[smf]

Nothing wrong with it if it was Ukranian officials who shut the site down, but according to the story, that's not what happened.

Ehhhhh... I'm going to have to agree with @Subtle Demise. We need to stop acting like the Internet is under our jurisdiction, because it isn't. However, I do get where you're coming from.

I don't know where I was going with this, it sounded better in my head... Basically, the US needs to back off and stop putting their nose in other people's business unless it's absolutely necessary

KAT had servers in the US and Canada. Why would it be shut down by Ukranian officials? Are you saying that Ukranians should be immune from prosecution from any laws they break in the US?

 

[Subtle Demise]

KAT had servers in the US and Canada. Why would it be shut down by Ukranian officials? Are you saying that Ukranians should be immune from prosecution from any laws they break in the US?

I didn't know that. Not even Americans should have servers in the US, whether they're doing anything illegal or not. That's just asking for trouble.

 

[smf]

I didn't know that. Not even Americans should have servers in the US, whether they're doing anything illegal or not. That's just asking for trouble.

The Canadian sites were investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. If you don't want trouble then keep off the net.

 

[Subtle Demise]

The Canadian sites were investigated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. If you don't want trouble then keep off the net.

More like host your sites in places that don't condone spying on its own citizens or attempting to outlaw cryptography.

 

[TeamScriptKiddies]

I think I'll stick with Demonoid for now until we're sure it's safe.

I use demonoid's .onion link for extra paranoia XD not to mention a vpn and an IP blocker. Gotta protect myself while downloading linux....

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I'm not so sure. The U.S. will know exactly whose arm to twist to get what they want.

I hope KAT makes a comeback but it seems unlikely right now. Although I use various private trackers, I used KAT quite a bit and now I find myself using thepiratebay.org & extratorrent.cc.

It's unreal how much taxpayers' money the U.S. spends on copyright infringement issues.

Well considering Allofmp3 is still operating under a different name and still has ever since the alleged "shutdown" which operates out of Russia and is next door neighbors to Ukraine, I doubt they'll get anywhere..... For those wondering, Allofmp3 is/was a Russian Digital Music Store that sells/sold music at a fraction of the price of itunes and what not and let you choose whatever format you want at whatever bitrate your heart desires, including lossless. They operate/operated on a loophole where they don't need permission to sell music as long as they pay royalties to a collecting society that's sanctioned by the government. The collecting society holds onto the royalties until they are claimed, of course none of the major record labels ever collected or will ever collect from those types of operations as they claim that by doing so they're "endorsing" it. Artists are free to pick up what's rightfully theirs however independent of their record labels.

A good wikipedia on the whole scenario: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllOfMP3

If they can get away with selling unauthorized music in a country like that for profit, KAT has nothing to worry about XD

 

[JAWS_XS]

wow US government...are you doing this for "US" or the greedy fuck Corporations?

 

[RevPokemon]

wow US government...are you doing this for "US" or the greedy fuck Corporations?

Chris Dodd is the CEO of the MPAA so think about it