Once upon a time, I realized that getting JAV was kind of a pain. H-games, too. The torrents that did exist were often dead, with few if any peers. Those peers were almost certainly slow as hell. And don't get me started on the encoding quality. I decided to cobble together a Gazelle installation, to see if I could change that. I had no idea if it would succeed, but thanks to the combined efforts of everyone here, Oppaitime officially turns 1 year old this week. Let's look at some stats. In the past year, we've managed to accumulate: Almost 1000 users Over 6,000 torrents Almost 10TiB of data Almost 60,000 snatches 3 Titty Monsters (you guys are seriously something else) Over 3500 forum posts God only knows how many 217,000 lines of IRC shitposts (thanks for the stats, pasta) A couple DDoS attacks The site has grown and the community has grown, and that's pretty great. I want to thank everyone who's contributed something to the site, even if it's just disk space. You're all a part of the site, and every contribution is valuable. We shouldn't forget people who are active in the community, too, both the forums and IRC. Without all of you, this place wouldn't exist. With that out of the way, we're of course going to celebrate. As of this post, we're having a week-long site-wide freeleech. 7 full days of freeleech. Enjoy them! no that doesn't mean neutral leech torrents will be freeleech, fuck off We're also having an upload contest. Here are the rewards: If you upload at least 5 torrents, you'll receive 1,000 nips for every upload. If you upload at least 10 torrents, you'll receive a badge at the end of the event The user who uploads the most torrents will receive a special badge, with the icon of your choice. You supply the graphics. We may or may not add rewards onto this later, so keep an eye out. I'd also like to encourage people who've never uploaded anything to give it a try. It's not nearly as hard as you might think, and both the forum and IRC have people willing to answer any question you might have. Thanks for making this a great year. I'm looking forward to plenty more. Oppai is Love. Oppai is Life.

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Today we bring you the next episode of the Steal This Show podcast, discussing the shutdown of KickassTorrent following a criminal complaint from the United States Government. Our guests are Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde, isoHunt founder Gary Fung and U.S. Pirate Party chairman Andrew Norton. stslogoThe alleged owner of KickassTorrents was arrested last week, to be extradited from Poland to the United States. The site – at least the original version – remains offline. In this episode of STEAL THIS SHOW, we invite Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, Andrew Norton, US Pirate Party chairman, and Gary Fung, founder of isoHunt, to discuss this critical event, its significance for the torrent community, and implications for the world of P2P. We discuss the propriety of extraordinary rendition for copyright crime, the question of how much money pirates are really making, and how the anti-P2P agenda is leading to further decentralisation. Kickass Torrents, we learn, is just one head of the many-headed hydra. — Steal This Show aims to release bi-weekly episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary and analysis. The guests for our news discussions will vary and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the great innovators and minds. Host: Jamie King Guests: Peter Sunde, Gary Fung and Andrew Norton. https://torrentfreak.com

POLICING file sharing on the internet is a task authorities will likely never be able to completely achieve. Last week, one of the web’s most popular illegal torrent sites was brought down and its operator arrested in Poland following an investigation by US federal agents.But one site’s loss is another’s gain. Kickass Torrents was shut down after its 30-year-old founder committed a string of errors that allowed federal agents to track him down and seize his site. One of the most popular torrenting sites on the internet, KAT operated in 30 languages and attracted more than 50 million unique viewers a month. It’s value was estimated at $72 million. Since the domain has been shutdown (at least momentarily) users have flocked to other major torrenting sites. According to Torrent Freak, The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent have been the main beneficiaries of the take down with the latter experiencing a 300 per cent uptick in traffic. Before it was pulled down by authorities, Kickass Torrents was the 69th most-visited site on the entire internet so there are plenty of pirates looking to board a new ship. Aside form some recent troubles which saw Pirate Bay pulled down for a number of weeks, the site has been a steady bastion of illegal torrents for those unconcerned about copyright laws. Speaking to Torrent Freak, one Pirate Bay employee said they would welcome KAT users with open arms. “When both TPB and its forum went down, we had overwhelming support from KAT users on their forum, and our staff were able to keep the communities updated on important news and announcements thanks to the help and messages of support we received,” she said. “Reciprocation is only right and we hope KAT staff will keep us informed of any official news/announcements so that we can help to inform,” she added. The torrent community remains defiant in the face of continued persecution. For them illegal torrenting is more of an ideology and a steadfast commitment to open information than a crime, as evidenced by Australia’s Pirate Party which, among other things, warns about the overreach of copyright. The operator of ExtraTorrent — only identified as SaM — which has enjoyed a swift rise in traffic in the past few days believes the KAT and torrent community will rebound. “It is sad to see an iconic site go this way, and it shows how the torrent community is targeted by all means. But, I guess torrenting will prevail and this doesn’t mean the death or end of this era,” he said.

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Yesterday the U.S. Government delivered a massive blow to KickassTorrents. With its alleged founder arrested and pretty much the entire site's operation compromised, it's not obvious that there will be a Pirate Bay style comeback anytime soon. Founded in 2009, KickassTorrents (KAT) grew out to become the largest torrent site on the Internet with millions of visitors a day. As a result, copyright holders and law enforcement have taken aim at the site in recent years. This resulted in several ISP blockades around the world, but yesterday the big hit came when the site’s alleged founder was arrested in Poland. Soon after the news was made public KAT disappeared, leaving its users without their favorite site. The question that’s on many people’s minds right now is whether the site will make a Pirate Bay-style comeback. While it’s impossible to answer this question with certainty, the odds can be more carefully weighed by taking a closer look at the events that led up to the bust and what may follow. First off, KickassTorrents is now down across all the site’s official domain names. This downtime seems to be voluntary in part, as the authorities haven’t seized the servers. Also, several domains are still in the hands of the KAT-team. That said, the criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Chicago does reveal that KAT has been heavily compromised (pdf). According to the feds, Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old from Ukraine, is the key player behind the site. Over the years, he obfuscated his connections to the site, but several security holes eventually revealed his identity. With help from several companies in the United States and abroad, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan identifies the Ukrainian as the driving force behind the site. The oldest traces to Vaulin are the WHOIS records for various domains, registered in his name early 2009. “A review of historical Whois information for KAT….identified that it was registered on or about January 19, 2009, to Artem Vaulin with an address located in Kharkiv, Ukraine,” the affidavit reads. This matches with records obtained from domain registrar GoDaddy, which indicate that Vaulin purchased three KAT-related domain names around the same time. The agent further uncovered that the alleged KAT founder used an email address with the nickname “tirm.” The same name was listed as KAT’s “owner” on the site’s “People” page in the early days, but was eventually removed in 2011. The HSI agent also looked at several messages posted on KAT, which suggest that “tirm” was actively involved in operating the site. “As part of this investigation, I also reviewed historical messages posted by tirm, KAT’s purported ‘Owner.’ These postings and others indicate that tirm was actively engaged in the early running of KAT in addition to being listed as an administrator and the website’s owner,” the HSI agent writes. Assisted by Apple and Facebook the feds were then able to strengthen the link between Vaulin, tirm, and his involvement in the site. Facebook, for example, handed over IP-address logs from the KAT fanpage. With help from Apple, the investigator was then able to cross-reference this with an IP-address Vaulin used for an iTunes transaction. “Records provided by Apple showed that [email protected] conducted an iTunes transaction using IP Address 109.86.226.203 on or about July 31, 2015. The same IP Address was used on the same day to login into the KAT Facebook Account.” In addition, Apple appears to have handed over private email conversations which reference KAT, dating back several years. These emails also mention a “kickasstorrent payment,” which is believed to be revenue related. “I identified a number of emails in the [email protected] account relating to Vaulin’s operation of KAT. In particular, between on or about June 8, 2010, and on or about September 3, 2010,” the HSI agent writes. More recent records show that an IP-address linked to KAT’s Facebook page was also used to access Vaulin’s Coinbase account, suggesting that the Bitcoin wallet also assisted in the investigation. “Notably, IP address 78.108.178.77 accessed the KAT Facebook Account about a dozen times in September and October 2015. This same IPAddress was used to login to Vaulin’s Coinbase account 47 times between on or about January 28, 2014, through on or about November 13, 2014.” As for the business side, the complaint mentions a variety of ad payments, suggesting that KAT made over a dozen million dollars in revenue per year. It also identifies the company Cryptoneat as KAT’s front. The Cryptoneat.com domain was registered by Vaulin and LinkedIn lists several employees of the company who were involved in the early development of the site. “Many of the employees found on LinkedIn who present themselves as working for Cryptoneat are the same employees who received assignments from Vaulin in the KAT alert emails,” the complaint reads. Interestingly, none of the other employees are identified or charged. To gather further information on the money side, the feds also orchestrated an undercover operation where they posed as an advertiser. This revealed details of several bank accounts, with one receiving over $28 million in just eight months. “Those records reflect that the Subject Account received a total of approximately €28,411,357 in deposits between on or about August 28, 2015, and on or about March 10, 2016.” Finally, and crucially, the investigators issued a warrant directed at the Canadian webhost of KickassTorrents. This was one of the biggest scores as it provided them with full copies of KAT’s hard drives, including the email server. “I observed […] that they were all running the same Linux Gentoo operating system, and that they contained files with user information, SSH access logs, and other information, including a file titled ‘passwd’ located in the ‘etc’ directory,” the HSI agent writes. “I also located numerous files associated with KAT, including directories and logs associated to their name servers, emails and other files,” he adds. Considering all the information U.S. law enforcement has in its possession, it’s doubtful that KAT will resume its old operation anytime soon. Technically it won’t be hard to orchestrate a Pirate Bay-style comeback, as there are probably some backups available. However, now that the site has been heavily compromised and an ongoing criminal investigation is underway, it would be a risky endeavor. Similarly, uploaders and users may also worry about what information the authorities have in their possession. The complaint cites private messages that were sent through KAT, suggesting that the authorities have access to a significant amount of data. While regular users are unlikely to be targeted, the information may provide useful for future investigations into large-scale uploaders. More clarity on this, the site’s future, and what it means for the torrent ecosystem, is expected to become evident when the dust settles. Source: Torrentfreak.com

KAT IS DEAD; LONG LIVE KAT BY VIRTUE OF TWO MIRROR SITES WHICH CARRY PETITION DEMANDING THE RELEASE OF ARTEM VAULIN! KickassTorrents’ (also known as Kickass Torrents or just KAT) fans, finally there’s a good news for you as IsoHunt has unofficially launched a mirror of official Kickass torrents domain which means you can get everything from the mirror that you used to download from original domain Kat.cr. The mirror link launched by IsoHunt is kickasstorrents.website which offers exactly same the service and free stuff which otherwise is hard to get for free. Another good news is that there is another domain Kickass Torrents domain Kat.am (someone running from India according to who.is) also offering the same services, the only difference is that the alleged owner Artem Vaulin is not running any of aforementioned domains as he was arrested by US authorities after tracing his IP address all the way to Poland, all due to Apple, Facebook and CoinBase snitching on him. Another noteworthy fact about these two new domains is that their homepages are also displaying a brief message urging visitors to sign a petition for immediate release of Artem Vaulin. According to the petition notice on: The founder of kat.cr was arrested in Poland. It is another attack on freedom of rights of internet users globally. We think it’s our duty not to stand aside but to fight back supporting our rights. In the world of regular terrorist attacks where global corporations are flooded with money while millions are dying of diseases and hunger, do you really think that torrents deserve so much attention? Do you really think this fight worth the money and resources spent on it? Do you really think it’s the real issue to care of right now? We don’t! Kat.cr is a website we all know and love, and the world will never be the same without it. That’s why before it will come back we’ve made the mirror of Kat.cr with all the torrents we could find. It’s not perfect but if you want to save and archive something, now it’s the time! We don’t know how long it can last, but at least it’s something. We will continue to fight for our freedom and you’re welcome to join us! Sign this petition on Change.org and let everybody know that there are many of us who refuse to be silent. Our freedom is to share the human right which Artem Vaulin has been providing to millions of users from all over the world. By arresting him our rights are violated. Bottom Line: You have two domains kickasstorrents.website and Kat.am that are providing the same services as the .cr domain.. There is a signing petition to U.S Justice department for the release of Artem Vaulin. Currently, there are more than 34,000 people who have already signed the petition.

Netflix’s stock has dropped 13 per cent, inspiring speculations about the reasons of the sudden dive. A recent price hike for the service has been quoted as the main reason for the drop, resulting in a much slower client acquisition than has been predicted (only 1.7 million last quarter instead of 2.5 million expected subscribers). VPN (Virtual Private Network) provider NordVPN has another theory, though. NORD VPN says based on client comments and requests, it is safe to assume that the major reason for Netflix failure to deliver expected results was its crackdown on VPNs — even though Netflix CEO Reed Hastings had previously called VPNs “a very small but quite vocal minority; really inconsequential”. Was he mistaken in his assumptions about the significance of VPNs? Since Netflix content is not uniform around the globe, it was common for subscribers to connect to American Netflix by using a VPN. Netflix has started a VPN crackdown half a year ago as it hasn’t secured streaming rights for its American shows abroad. As a result, NordVPN says it has experienced an overwhelming amount of user inquiries about its VPN services and Netflix streaming in various countries. Here are a few trends it has noticed: Unsubscribing from Netflix rather than quitting VPNs People have discovered diverse benefits of VPNs, and chose their privacy over streaming. One customer is quoted as saying “Privacy first! Netflix last. I wonder how the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings would feel if his subscribers got to follow him everywhere he went! You can most assuredly bet that he would hire his own security team to keep his affairs private”. A return to P2P file sharing An old and tried technique of file sharing had started to quiet down thanks to Netflix and other streaming programs that were giving people access to a wide variety of options to watch for a comparatively good price. Or rather, many Netflix and other streaming service subscribers around the world were using VPNs and proxy servers to access shows on Netflix USA that has by far the most options and were paying to do so.Since that is not an option anymore due to Netflix crackdown on VPNs, users are reporting the trend reversal. “People are simply reverting back to P2P, reversing all the good Netflix brought,” said one user on Reddit. A move to local streaming services For example, Australia’s local Stan and Presto provider has been growing, while Australian Netflix has been losing subscribers. Hulu, Amazon Prime and multiple smaller streaming providers have also seen an increase in users in the past quarter. “By limiting people’s freedom to watch their shows Netflix seems to be hurting their own sales as well as the profit of the studios which it is trying to protect,” NordVPN said in a statement. “In the meanwhile, the users are making their own decisions and choosing alternatives.”

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Earlier this week KickassTorrents was taken down following a criminal investigation into the site's alleged owner. Since then, millions of frequent users have taken refuge elsewhere. The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent are among the major beneficiaries, with the latter reporting an instant traffic spike of more than 300%. With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) was the largest file-sharing site in the world. In fact, shortly before the site went offline it was the 69th most-visited site on the entire Internet, beating Craigslist, Alibaba and the BBC. Today, however, the site is still offline and there haven’t been any signs of an imminent comeback. This means that KAT’s millions of users have to find a new home to get their daily torrent fix. The Pirate Bay appears to be one of the prime alternatives. The notorious torrent site has been operating steadily recently, aside from some occasional downtime, and is still seen by many as the Godfather of all torrent sites. At the end of 2014 many Pirate Bay users moved to KAT, when the site suffered more than a month of downtime. To get the latest torrents and discuss the latest developments, among other things. Now many KAT users are likely to switch in the other direction. TorrentFreak spoke with TPB staff member Spud17, who has seen some increase in forum traffic in recent days. She says they will welcome homeless torrenters with open arms. “When both TPB and its forum went down, we had overwhelming support from KAT users on their forum, and our staff were able to keep the communities updated on important news and announcements thanks to the help and messages of support we received. “Reciprocation is only right and we hope KAT staff will keep us informed of any official news/announcements so that we can help to inform,” Spud17 adds. As for the future, the TPB staffer believes that the KAT community is strong enough to survive one way or another. “Personally, I think KAT will be back, their community is too strong to just fizzle out, much like the TPB community seeking refuge on IRCmeant it stayed together during downtime, I’m sure the KAT community will keep the faith,” Spud17 notes. Another refuge for KAT users is ExtraTorrent, which was already the third largest torrent site before the KAT takedown. TorrentFreak spoke to an operator of the site who said that they’re seeing a significant traffic spike. “So far we got 200% signup, and 300% traffic increase at ExtraTorrent,” ET’s SaM told us a day after KAT went down. Similar to KAT, ExtraTorrent has an active community and forums, which makes it one of the most natural alternatives. Despite the traffic boost, ExtraTorrent’s operator is not happy to see another site going down. However, he is not willing to throw in the towel and believes that the “torrent community” will survive this setback. “It is sad to see an iconic site go this way, and it shows how the torrent community is targeted by all means. But, I guess torrenting will prevail and this doesn’t mean the death or end of this era,” SaM says. Another operator of one of the top torrent sites, who spoke with us on condition of anonymity, reports a traffic increase as well, albeit a small one. The site in question targets a different audience, which may explain the limited effect. “We’re seeing a small traffic increase, but then again we were never the KAT type of site. So KAT’s users will not move to us,” the operator says. Despite from the traffic spikes, some torrent sites were adversely affected this week. The popular torrent caching service Torcache.net went offline at the same time KAT did, which is likely related. As a result, torrents on 1337x.to, Monova and other sites that use the same service are not loading at the moment. Time will tell if and how these events are connected. It is safe to say, however, that the KAT downtime has had a significant effect on the torrent community. But as history has shown time and time again, it’s doubtful that it will stop many people from sharing files in the long run. source TorrentFreak.com

Following the shutdown of KickassTorrents, the next pretenders to the torrent throne will be weighing up the pros and cons of pirate life. There are lessons to be learned for those willing to take the risk, but can any setup be truly bullet-proof when challenged by the US Government? To the huge disappointment of millions of BitTorrent users, KickassTorrents disappeared this week following an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States. With a huge hole now present at the top of the torrent landscape, other sites plus interested groups and individuals will be considering their options. Step up their game and take over the top slot? Cautiously maintain the status quo? Or pull out altogether… Make no mistake, this is a game of great reward, matched only by the risk. If the DHS complaint is to be believed, Kickass made dozens of millions of euros, enough to tempt even the nerviest of individuals. But while that might attract some, is avoiding detection almost impossible these days? The complaint against KAT shows that while not inevitable, it’s becoming increasingly difficult. It also shows that carelessness plays a huge part in undermining security and that mistakes made by others in the past are always worth paying attention to. Servers in the United States Perhaps most tellingly, in the first instance KAT failed to learn from the ‘mistakes’ made by Megaupload. While the cases are somewhat dissimilar, both entities chose to have a US presence for at least some of their servers. This allowed US authorities to get involved. Not a great start. “[Since 2008], KAT has relied on a network of computer servers around the world to operate, including computer servers located in Chicago, Illinois,” the complaint against the site reads. The Chicago server weren’t trivial either. “According to a reverse DNS search conducted by the hosting company on or about May 5, 2015, that server was the mail client ‘mail.kat.ph’.” Torrent site mail servers. In the United States. What could go possibly go wrong? In a word? Everything. In January 2016, DHS obtained a search warrant and cloned the Chicago servers. Somewhat unsurprisingly this gifted investigating agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan (the same guy who infiltrated Silk Road) valuable information. “I located multiple files that contained unique user information, access logs, and other information. These files include a file titled ‘passwd’ located in the ‘etc’ directory, which was last accessed on or about January 13, 2016, and which identified the users who had access to the operating system,” Der-Yeghiayan said. Servers in Canada KAT also ran several servers hosted with Montreal-based Netelligent Hosting Services. There too, KAT was vulnerable. In response to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request, in April 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police obtained business records associated with KAT’s account and made forensic images of the torrent site’s hard drives. Why KAT chose Netelligent isn’t clear, but the site should have been aware that the hosting company would be forced to comply with law enforcement requests. After all, it had happened at least once before in a case involving Swedish torrent site, Sparvar. Mistakes at the beginning When pirate sites first launch, few admins expect them to become world leaders. If they did, they’d probably approach things a little differently at the start. In KAT’s case, alleged founder Artem Vaulin registered several of the site’s domains in his own name, information that was happily handed to the DHS by US-based hosting company GoDaddy. Vaulin also used a Gmail account, operated by US-based Google. The complaint doesn’t explicitly say that Google handed over information, but it’s a distinct possibility. In any event, an email sent from that account in 2009 provided a helpful bridge to investigators. “I changed my gmail. now it’s [email protected],” it read. Forging further connections from his private email accounts to those operated from KAT, in 2012 Vaulin sent ‘test’ emails from KAT email addresses to his Apple address. This, HSI said, signaled the point that Vaulin began using KAT emails for business. No time to relax, even socially In addition to using an email account operated by US-based Apple, (in which HSI found Vaulin’s passport and driver’s license details, plus his banking info), the Ukranian also had an iTunes account. Purchases he made there were logged by Apple, down to the IP address. Then, thanks to information provided by US-based Facebook (notice the recurring Stateside theme?), HSI were able to match that same IP address against a login to KAT’s Facebook page. Anonymous Bitcoin – not quite If the irony of the legitimate iTunes purchases didn’t quite hit the spot, the notion that Bitcoin could land someone in trouble should tick all the boxes. According to the complaint, US-based Bitcoin exchange Coinbase handed over information on Vaulin’s business to HSI. “Records received from the bitcoin exchange company Coinbase revealed that the KAT Bitcoin Donation Address sent bitcoins it received to a user’s account maintained at Coinbase. This account was identified as belonging to Artem Vaulin located in Kharkov, Ukraine,” it reads. Final thoughts For a site that the US Government had always insisted was operating overseas, KickassTorrents clearly had a huge number of United States connections. This appears to have made the investigation much more simple than it would have been had the site and its owner had maintained a presence solely in Eastern Europe. Why the site chose to maintain these connections despite the risks might never be answered, but history has shown us time and again that US-based sites are not only vulnerable but also open to the wrath of the US Government. With decades of prison time at stake, that is clearly bad news. But for now at least, Vaulin is being detained in Poland, waiting to hear of his fate. Whether or not he’ll quickly be sent to the United States is unclear, but it seems unlikely that a massively prolonged Kim Dotcom-style extradition battle is on the agenda. A smaller one might be, however. While the shutdown of KAT and the arrest of its owner came out of the blue, the writing has always been on the wall. The shutdown is just one of several momentous ‘pirate’ events in the past 18 months including the closure (and resurrection) of The Pirate Bay, the dismantling of the main Popcorn Time fork, and the end of YTS/YIFY. Source: Torrentfreak.com

It seems another tracker has come to close its doors. Paradise-Inspired's members have been receiving the following message fromtracker's administrator, during the last couple days, while the site itself is unreachable in the last few days: hi all members today i recived a email from fact saying that i have to close the site i am so sad to do this but its got to happen ill be in touch soon im sure to you all im really pissed off

After a decade of lawsuits, the iconic torrent site IsoHunt has settled its last remaining legal dispute. Gary Fung, the Canadian founder of the defunct search engine, has agreed to pay a $66 million settlement to the local music industry group and is glad he can move on with his life. isohunt-fredomAfter years of legal battles, isoHunt and its founder Gary Fung are free at last. Today, Fung announced that he has settled the last remaining lawsuit with Music Canada, formerly known as the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). “After 10 long years, I’m happy to announce the end of isoHunt’s and my lawsuits,” Fung says, noting that he now owes the Canadian music group $66 million. The multi-million dollar agreement follows an earlier settlement with the MPAA, for $110 million, on paper. While most site owners would be devastated, Fung has long moved beyond that phase and responds rather sarcastically. “And I want to congratulate both Hollywood and CRIA on their victories, in letting me off with fines of $110m and $66m, respectively. Thank you!” he notes, adding that he’s “free at last”. The consent order (pdf) signed by the Supreme Court of British Columbia prohibits isoHunt’s founder from operating any file-sharing site in the future. It further requires Fung to pay damages of $55 million and another $10 million in aggravated punitive damages. The final million dollars is issued to cover the costs of the lawsuit. Although isoHunt shut down 2013, it took more than two years for the last case to be finalized. The dispute initially began in the last decennium, when the Canadian music industry went after several prominent torrent sites. In May 2008, isoHunt received a Cease and Desist letter from the CRIA in which they demanded that isoHunt founder Gary Fung should take the site offline. If Fung didn’t comply, the CRIA said it would pursue legal action, and demand $20,000 for each sound recording the site has infringed. A similar tactic worked against Demonoid, but the isoHunt founder didn’t back down so easily. Instead, he himself filed a lawsuit against the CRIA asking the court to declare the site legal. That didn’t work out as isoHunt’s founder had planned, and several years later the tables have been turned entirely, with the defeat now becoming final. While the outcome won’t change anything about isoHunt’s demise, Fung is proud that he was always able to shield its users from the various copyright groups attacking it. No identifiable user data was shared at any point. Fung is also happy for the support the site’s users have given him over the years. “I can proudly conclude that I’ve kept my word regarding users’ privacy above. To isoHunt’s avid users, it’s worth repeating since I shutdown isoHunt in 2013, that you have my sincerest thanks for your continued support,” Fung notes. “Me and my staff could not have done it for more than 10 years without you, and that’s an eternity in internet time. It was an interesting and challenging journey for me to say the least, and the most profound business learning experience I could not expect.” The Canadian entrepreneur can now close the isoHunt book for good and move on to new ventures. One of the projects he just announced is a mobile search tool called “App to Automate Googling” AAG for which he invites alpha testers. The original isoHunt site now redirects to MPAA’s “legal” search engine WhereToWatch. However, the name and design lives on via the clone site IsoHunt.to, which still draws millions of visitors per month – frustrating for the MPAA and Music Canada. https://torrentfreak.com

A member from the torrent site isoHunt has unofficially resurrected KickassTorrents (also known as Kickass Torrents or just KAT) at kickasstorrents.website. It might look like the original KAT site, which went down yesterday after alleged founder Artem Vaulin was arrested, but upon closer inspection it’s simply a basic mirror. The isoHunt team tells me the KAT mirror is hosting files from the last year to year-and-a-half. So no, not everything is available. Furthermore, there is no forum, no community, and no support. And you shouldn’t get too attached, the administrators warn. “It’s not perfect but if users need to save and archive something it’s time,” the team told VentureBeat. “We don’t know how long it can last, but at least it’s something.” Unlike when the isoHunt team resurrected The Pirate Bay, this KAT mirror isn’t very robust. While the site is certainly functional, we’re not expecting new content. Update: The isoHunt team has clarified that only one of their members created the mirror, which would explain its limitations. The isoHunt team is part of a bigger group that supports Vaulin and has posted the following manifesto, which shows up when you first visit the KAT mirror: This morning the founder of kat.cr was arrested in Poland. It is another attack on freedom of rights of internet users globally. We think it’s our duty not to stand aside but to fight back supporting our rights. In the world of regular terrorist attacks where global corporations are flooded with money while millions are dying of diseases and hunger, do you really think that torrents deserve so much attention? Do you really think this fight worth the money and resources spent on it? Do you really think it’s the real issue to care of right now? We don’t! Kat.cr is a website we all know and love, and the world will never be the same without it. That’s why before it will come back we’ve made the mirror of Kat.cr with all the torrents we could find. It’s not perfect but if you want to save and archive something, now it’s the time! We don’t know how long it can last, but at least it’s something. We will continue to fight for our freedom and you’re welcome to join us! Sign this petition on Change.org and let everybody know that there are many of us who refuse to be silent. Our freedom is to share the human right which Artem Vaulin has been providing to millions of users from all over the world. By arresting him our rights are violated. To rally support around the cause of freeing Vaulin, the group has launched petitions on the Change.org and The White House websites. It’s highly unlikely the petitions will be able to achieve anything, but the U.S. government does have a rule that states petitions with over 100,000 signatures in 30 days must receive an official response. While that will be some sort of achievement, Vaulin isn’t going anywhere. The bigger achievement has already been made: launching a KAT mirror in less than 24 hours. It’s not the first such site, and it certainly won’t be the last.

KICKASS TORRENTS’ OWNER ARTEM VAULIN HAS BEEN ARRESTED BUT THE WAY APPLE, FACEBOOK AND COINBASE HELPED THE US AUTHORITIES TO TRACK VAULIN BACK TO EUROPE SOUNDS LIKE SOME SCRIPT FROM A JAMES BOND MOVIE! Kickass Torrents fans should already know that its 30-year-old alleged owner, Artem Vaulting, has been arrested in Poland by the US authorities on suspicions of reproducing and distributing copyrighted content worth $1 billion. Vaulin, who is a Ukranian national was supposedly running Kickass Torrents platform behind the scene for last 8years leaving no trace marks whatsoever. However, there are some more details about his arrest that are coming to the fore and they are shocking. They include both tech giant Apple Inc. and social media giant Facebook. It all started when an undercover agent from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) disguising as an advertiser contacted Kickass Torrents to put an advert on the site, after a while the agent was successful in placing an ad on the site allowing him to have access to a Latvia-based bank account linked with the Kickass website. Upon further investigations, the US authorities discovered an email address that was linked to the Kickass Torrents domain plus its social media accounts including Mark Zuckerberg’s very own Facebook. Later on, Apple provided complete records of Vaulin’s purchase activities on iTunes store from an email hosting on @me.com. Records provided by Apple showed that tirm me.com conducted an iTunes transaction using IP Address 109.86.226.203 on or about July 31, 2015. The same IP Address was used on the same day to login into the KAT Facebook Account. Then, on or about December 9, 2015,[email protected] used IP Address 78.108.181.81 to conduct another iTunes transaction. The same IP Address was logged as accessing the KAT Facebook Account on or about December 4, 2015. The records provided by Apple showed that someone made a legal purchase from iTunes using the same email address using the same IPaddress that was also being used to login on to Facebook in order to handle Kickass Torrents’ official Facebook page. But, that’s not all, the authorities also tracked Bitcoin donation process of KAT which was linked to Coinbase, a Bitcoin exchange company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The records provided by Coinbase revealed further information about Vaulin such as: Records received from the bitcoin exchange company Coinbase revealed that the KAT Bitcoin Donation Address sent bitcoins it received to a user’s account maintained at Coinbase. This account was identified as belonging to Artem Vaulin located in Kharkov, Ukraine, with a backup email address of tirm me.com. The records returned by Facebook also provided the IP logins to the KAT Facebook Account since on or about October 21, 2014. Notably, IPaddress 78.108.178.77 accessed the KAT Facebook Account about a dozen times in September and October 2015. This same IP Address was used to login to Vaulin’s Coinbase account 47 times between or on about January 28, 2014, through to on or about November 13, 2014. After receiving further information from different sources the US authorities were able to arrest the man behind the mask Artem Vaulin in Poland. For the time being several other Kickass Torrents domains are popping up online but it’s a matter of time before authorities shut them down as well.

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