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The torrent site Kickass Torrent had been officially put down last July 20, 2016 after so many years of tracing the man behind it, Artem Vaulin. And for their 7 years, they have provided people with free torrents from software to books to movies. Fans Still Have Other Options Those Kickass Torrent users are said to not be fully upset about the closing of the site as they still have other options in the internet. The 13 year-old torrent site, Pirate Bay is still currently active and is now the first option of the people after Kickass Torrent and the new site Extratorrent is the next. According to an article, fans have been using other torrent sites like IsoHunt, TorrentHound and Torrentdownloads which have reportedly increased their traffic rates after what happened to Kickass Torrent. Kickass.cr Is Up For Sale Speculations are going online that Kickass Torrent will have a comeback secretly even after the arrest of Vaulin under new domain. According to an article by Torrent Freak, one of the main domains of "Kickass Torrents" site has been up for sale. Kickasa.cr is said to be available in the SEDO market from $230 bid. Hopes Up For Kickass Torrent Fans According to University Herald, the founder of "Kickass Torrents" Artem Vaulin, who is now charged with copyright infringement along with other violations that are piracy-elated, said in an interview that they are not worried about the site. According to him, if its not them, someone will still keep their game running which made the hopes of their fans up again.

THE GOVERNMENT HAS BLOCKED SEVERAL TORRENTING AND FILE SHARING SITES AND IMPRISONMENT HAS BEEN THREATENED FOR ANYONE VIEWING OR DOWNLOADING CONTENT FROM SUCH SITES... It looks like the whole world is going after Torrent websites. Beginning with the shutdown of Kickass Torrents which led to the arrest of its owner Artem Vaulting to the farewell of Torrentz.eu. it’s war on Torrents. Viewers in India were shocked to witness a warning message on several Torrenting and file sharing sites earlier today, informing them that the domain they are trying to visit has been blocked by the “Competent Government Authority” and that viewing or downloading an illegal content can send them to prison for 3 years and also a fine of 3,00,000 Indian Rupees (around 4,464) US Dollar. According to the message: “This URL has been blocked under the instructions of the Competent Government Authority or in compliance with the orders of a Court of competent jurisdiction. Viewing, downloading, exhibiting or duplicating an illicit copy of the contents of this URL is punishable as an offense under the laws of India, including but not limited to under Sections 63, 63-A, 65 and 65-A of the Copyright Act, 1957 which prescribe imprisonment for 3 years and also fine of up to Rs. 3,00,000/-. Any person aggrieved by any such blocking of this URL may contact at urlblock@tatacommunications.com who will, within 48 hours, provide you the details of relevant proceedings under which you can approach the relevant High Court or Authority for redressal of your grievance.” Another site Extratorrent.cc that provides users with an option to download torrents for the latest movies, TV shows, music, anime, adult, mobile, images, software, books and games was also showing a similar message: “Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from the department of telecommunications, government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.” India Today reported that Bombay High Court recently asked internet service providers in India to not just block URLs but also explain to users why the URLs are blocked and possibly warn them of consequences of illegally accessing copyright work. Although wordings used in the aforementioned notices doesn’t clarify if “viewing” the site is also crime however one thing as clear as crystal that for now if you download videos from torrent sites you will face trouble such as jail time and or a fine of 300,000 Indian Rupee. This is not the first time that the Indian government has blocked such sites. On May 3, 2012, Torrentz and The Pirate Bay were blocked by Reliance Communications after receiving orders from the Department of Telecom. In return, Anonymous hacktivists hacked Reliance servers and warned the telecom giant to restore the sites’ access.

According to the United States Government, KickassTorrents was operated through Cryptoneat, an alleged "front company" located in Ukraine. Now, however, Cryptoneat's web's presence is no more. In addition to the disappearance of its website, the company's main domain has just expired. After becoming the world’s largest torrent site months before, July 20 saw KickassTorrents’ reign collapse when the organization was dismantled by US law enforcement. In addition to the site going offline, KAT’s alleged founder, Artem Vaulin, was arrested in Poland, from where the United States Government is now demanding his extradition. In a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, Vaulin is charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement. All of these offences are naturally connected with KAT but according to US authorities, at least one other entity was closely involved. If its website was to be believed, Cryptoneat was a sizeable web company with perhaps dozens of employees. It first appeared online in 2014 and months later was updated with a very basic logo. https://torrentfreak.com/images/crypto-1.png For non-Russian speakers the message underneath the graphic reads “With no zombies”. Over the months that followed the site had periodic updates and by August 2015 was sporting a new logo and some early indications of what its business might be. “We develop our own products. From concept to the user’s screen,” a statement read. https://torrentfreak.com/images/crypto-2.png “Cryptoneat is a software development company crafting our own products since 2008. Our latest project is Wine scanner iOS application Wineeapp.com,” the site read in January 2016. “We support personal responsibility and involvement with no over-management standing in the way of imagination and creative thinking. Flexible schedules and smart workspace. We hold to the ergonomics cult: Herman Miller chairs, standing desks, Apple hardware and multi-monitor configurations.” Cryptoneat’s logo was developed by former architect and Ukrainian graphic artist Andrey Koval. There’s no suggestion that Koval was directly involved in Cryptoneat or KAT, but he does share the same location, Kharkiv, the second-largest city in Ukraine. Koval did not immediately respond to TorrentFreak’s requests for comment but we did manage to find a video which showcases the Cryptoneat logo he created for the company. https://vimeo.com/150651134 Cryptogram from CRYPTONEAT on Vimeo. Cryptoneat operated from two URLs, .COM and .UA. In the early days following Vaulin’s arrest the sites were operational, but both have now disappeared. Perhaps not surprising given the statements made by the US Department of Justice. “During a significant part of the conspiracy, Vaulin has operated KAT under the auspices of a Ukrainian-based front company called Cryptoneat,” wrote Jared Der-Yeghiayan, a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations. “As of on or about June 20, 2016, Vaulin’s LinkedIn profile identifies him as the founder of Cryptoneat and lists the company’s creation date as November 2009. On Cryptoneat’s Instagram and Facebook page I have viewed pictures of Vaulin purportedly at Cryptoneat’s office.” Cryptoneat’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have since been disabled. Various LinkedIn profiles relating to Vaulin and other employees have been edited. Having previously indicated the Cryptoneat’s employees could potentially number as many as 50, the company’s main LinkedIn page now list the company’s size as “myself only.” Slowly but surely the company is disappearing from the web, with just a couple of pages now available via Google’s cache. One offers coding jobs with a competitive salary, paid vacation and holidays, health insurance, a stocked kitchen and gym fees. But now, a month following KAT’s shutdown, Cryptoneat’s online presence has taken another hit. Two days ago the site’s .COM domain ceased to function after its two-year registration period expired. https://torrentfreak.com/images/crypto-3.png Unlike several other KickassTorrents-related domains, the US Government doesn’t appear interested in seizing Cryptoneat’s domains at this stage, even though it clearly states that the Ukraine-based company was used as a KAT front. Indeed, the Homeland Security investigation found that at least several Cryptoneat employees worked on KickassTorrents. “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,” Special Agent Jared Der-Yeghiayan reported. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the three main individuals mentioned by Der-Yeghiayan (although not by name in the criminal complaint) have removed Cryptoneat from their resumes. Lower ranking employees have left their history in place but moved on to new jobs. Given the apparent size of the Cryptoneat operation, it’s not yet clear why the US Government has only reported one arrest thus far. It’s certainly likely that it has more cards up its sleeve but it could be a considerable length of time before those are revealed in public. https://torrentfreak.com

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HBO, Paramount Pictures and other copyright holders are sending takedown notices for torrent links that have never existed. The notices accuse sites of distributing recent movies and TV-shows. However, the services in question have been down for a year, showing that anti-piracy groups automatically generate links based on hashes without any verification. Over the past years a lot has been said about the effectiveness and accuracy of DMCA takedown practices. Rightsholders often complain that it’s impossible to keep content offline, while critics warn about mistakes caused by automated takedown bots. The latter has been illustrated anecdotally, but we recently stumbled upon a rather worrying development that illustrates just how far anti-piracy groups are prepared to go when it comes to fabricating “evidence”. One of the companies involved is IP-Echelon, which sends takedown notices on behalf of HBO and Paramount Pictures, among others. Looking through their recent submissions we see notices targeting sites that allegedly distribute popular content such as recent episodes of Game of Thrones, Ballers, and Silicon Valley. Among the sites reported are The Pirate Bay, ExtraTorrent and various lesser known sites. However, our eye was drawn to Zoink.it and Torrage.com. The latter two have been operating as so-called torrent caches for a long time. These don’t have a searchable index of torrents, but serve as a hosting platform for torrent sites, identifying torrents by their unique hash. For example, a torrent for an episode of Ballers that aired a few weeks ago has the hash C87000EF73557A488D5C21BF8F9FA4CC24EC0513. This file would then be available at Zoink under the following url: zoink.it/torrent/C87000EF73557A488D5C21BF8F9FA4CC24EC0513.torrent. We say would be, because Zoink.it was shut down at the end of 2014. The same is true for the other torrent cache, Torrage, which has been offline for quite a while as well. However, the takedown notices IP-Echelon sends on behalf of HBO and Paramount pictures still list these sites with hashes of new torrents, which never existed when the sites were still online. https://torrentfreak.com/images/ballers.png How can this be? Well, it seems obvious that IP-Echelon is fabricating URLs based on torrent hashes without checking if they even exist. This isn’t an isolated mistake either, as the company is sending dozens of these fabricated notices per month. In this case, no harm has been done. The sites in question are offline and can’t be punished by Google’s downranking algorithm. However, the fact that they keep fabricating links more than a year after sites have disappeared, shows that there is little oversight. TorrentFreak spoke to the former hosting provider of Zoink and Torrage who confirms that both sites remain targeted, and not just by IP-Echelon. Indian anti-piracy outfit MarkScan is also sending takedown notices to Zoink and Torrage’s former hosting provider on a regular basis, we were informed. In addition, the company is also sending takedown requests to Google for new torrents, as does Rico Management. It’s safe to say that these anti-piracy outfits are quite sloppy, to say the least. Of course, copyright holders have the right to protect their content, but they have to play by the rules. Making up evidence certainly doesn’t look good in this regard.

In the early days of P2P, saving money on media was a key motivator for people to pirate online. But now, with the market beginning to mature, it is the timely availability of content in convenient formats that has the ability to tackle the piracy issue. For one iconic torrent site, availability of legitimate content was to prove fatal. When peer-to-peer file-sharing networks started to gain traction more than a decade and a half ago, it soon became clear that if entertainment industries were to compete, they’d need to step up their game. In the early 2000s, for example, users of Sharman Networks’ Kazaa software already had wide and free access to music and video titles. The introduction of BitTorrent shortly after only turned up the pressure. Fifteen years down the line it’s now clearer than ever. The true enemy of illicit file-sharing is broad and convenient access to all content at a fair price. In the meantime, however, platforms such as torrent sites continue to pick up the slack. More than a decade ago, they were leading the charge. Founded in 2003/4, torrent site UKNova took a somewhat unusual approach to its offering. Rather than the free-for-all witnessed on most platforms, UKNova aimed to responsibly service UK-based consumers and those overseas with select content that couldn’t easily be obtained by other means. Initially, the site catered to a few ex-pats who were desperate for their fix of long-running TV soap, Eastenders. It had been made available in the States by BBC America, but in 2003 the iconic show was dropped. “After initially sending VHS tapes across the Atlantic, a daring foray into the unknown world of trackers and torrents was made by brave visionaries and uknova.com was born,” a site operator told TorrentFreak. “UKNova rapidly became known as the ‘go-to’ place for UK television and for a while was probably the leading private tracker catering to ex-pats and Anglophiles around the world.” Most private torrent sites have strict rules, but UKNova went a step further than most by only allowing UK-produced TV content that was not available on DVD or premium channels. But despite the restrictions, UKNova was a success. “Membership rapidly grew and was voluntarily limited to between 30,000 and 40,000 members. Forum activity could become so heavy that server problems arose, leading to an iconic ‘Mind The Gap‘ message.” But UKNova was much more than just a torrent site. Like many niche trackers, UKNova had a thriving close-knit community centered around the theme and culture of UK TV. With assistance from the site’s radio station, those friendships thrived beyond the digital space. “Events and activities grew from the forums: picnics and meet-ups, annual awards ceremonies with live radio, mugs and t-shirts, fantasy football leagues, and above all solidarity for members who were in need, ill or deceased,” the operator explains. “There were at least four marriages resulting from friendships struck up on UKNova’s forums and IRC chat.” Due to the nature of UK TV (free to view, for those who pay the standard license fee), UKNova offered a lot of BBC content. Back in the early days BBC iPlayer simply did not exist so once shows disappeared off air, that was that until the corporation decided to bring them back. UKNova not only filled that gap, but even received a request to help the BBC complete its archives. “During this time relations with the BBC were cordial. In one case UKNova was even asked if they could find a missing recording of documentary series Horizon,” a site representative explains. But by 2012, the atmosphere had begun to shift. “UKNova is being forced to change,” an operator told TF at the time. “We have been issued with a ‘cease and desist’ order by FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft.” FACT was clear in its demands. All copyrighted content needed to come down, no matter where that content had come from and despite the fact that UKNova had never had a complaint from any TV station since its inception. The site didn’t believe it could be successfully prosecuted but had no way of defending itself. “UKNova has never had any source of revenue other than donations to help pay for the servers and bandwidth. In latter years the site survived uniquely on private donations from Staff,” TF was told. Within weeks UKNova shut down, but the dream wasn’t quite over yet. “In 2013 a group of independent users decided to re-ignite the flame with a new site which was kept as low profile as possible. This site kept the ethos of the original UKNova, with the same rules concerning commercially available material,” a site veteran explains. This, it appears, was to be the site’s ultimate undoing. The environment in 2013 was massively different to that of 2003. Legitimate services were appearing left and right, meaning that the content pool available to UKNova users under the site’s own stringent rules was diminishing every day. UKNova’s decision to maintain its position as “the ethical torrent site” was cutting off its own oxygen supply and over the next three years the site began to die. “In 2016 it became clear that the advent of the BBC Store and Amazon Video, linked to the quasi-immediate availability of shows from other channels on DVD, meant that allowable content was shrinking daily,” a site operator explains. With the main reason for people visiting the site diminishing all the time, members had less and less to talk about. The continued rise of external and mainstream social media only exacerbated the situation. “The discussion forums were grinding to a halt and membership was gradually shrinking. Rather than flogging a dead horse it seemed appropriate to turn out the lights, lock the door and gracefully retire.” On Saturday August 7, UKNova’s trackers were taken offline. A week later the site was shuttered completely. UKNova was dead, this time for real. “It’s been a good long run, so much good has been done, and so much fun has been had, by so many people – a unique experience. But all good things..,” the site said in a closing statement. While FACT’s intervention was certainly an unwelcome one, it seems fairly clear that its own strict rules and the availability of legitimate content was what ultimately led to UKNova’s demise. Sadly, however, UKNova’s initial goals of serving the ex-pat community are still proving a problem today. Only last week, FACT and the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Unit shut down an IPTV service directly aimed at British citizens living abroad. PIPCU said that the platform had many thousands of customers, showing that a potentially lucrative market still exists if only someone, somewhere, would service it. Someone will, but it won’t be UKNova.

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In an attempt to uncover various BitTorrent pirates, Dallas Buyers Club attorney James Davis asked an Oregon District Court for permission to interrogate Internet subscribers whose connections were used to pirate the film. In his request the lawyer warns against an aggressive "BitTorrent defense bar," which apparently uses the Pirate Party and TorrentFreak to push a dangerous copyleft agenda. The makers of Dallas Buyers Club have sued thousands of BitTorrent users over the past few years. Many of these cases end up being settled for an undisclosed amount. This usually happens after the filmmakers obtain the identity of the Internet account holder believed to have pirated the movie. The tactics used by Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) are often described as “copyright trolling,” and equated to the abusive practices of Prenda Law. However, according to Dallas Buyers Club attorney James S. Davis this is certainly not the case. In a recent filing requesting the deposition of an alleged pirate, he distances his enforcement actions from Prenda’s previous practices. “In these cases, Plaintiffs would offer settlements for a sum calculated to be just below the cost of defense, creating a situation in which a Defendant would reluctantly pay rather than have their names associated with illegally downloaded porn,” DBC’s lawyer writes. “This was a pattern of clear abuse and is well recognized,” he adds. It’s quite unusual for a lawyer to open his filing by scolding his former ‘colleagues,’ but in this case it serves a higher purpose. The problem, according to Davis, is that Prenda’s actions gave rise to an “aggressive BitTorrent Defense Bar.” This group of individuals and organizations is actively protests all related copyright enforcement actions, including DBC’s cases. This group of torrent defenders apparently uses TorrentFreak and other sites to spread their message to the public. “[An] aggressive BitTorrent Defense Bar, whom is against any copyright enforcement, has attempted to have all copyright enforcement actions categorized as part of the ‘porn-trolling collective’ through the use of the internet with sites like, dietrolldie.com, torrentfreak.com, fightcopyrighttrolls.com, and related arguments presented to the courts,” Davis writes. As if that wasn’t enough, the “defense bar,” which is apparently against all copyright enforcement, also organizes itself on a political level through the “copyleft” Pirate Party. “In some countries this opposition is organized as a political party called the Pirate Party, but domestically often referred to as the Copyleft. This BitTorrent Defense Bar is critical of any copyright enforcement actions without regards to any specifics,” Davis writes. https://torrentfreak.com/images/copyleft.png Davis tells the court that copyright holders can’t do anything right in the eyes of these torrent defenders. If settlement amounts are too high it’s seen as extortion, and if they’re too low they exploit the costs of litigation and their nuisance value. Dallas Buyers Club’s lawyer hopes that the court will see through these arguments and judge the cases on their merit. “On scrutiny, the courts are finding that current enforcement practices used by counsel, are not to ‘plunder the citizenry,’ ‘exploit individuals,’ monetizing, or profiting from illegal downloading, but truly motivated by Plaintiff’s desire to protect its copyrights interests and fight piracy,” he writes. At TorrentFreak we were surprised to see ourselves mentioned in relation to a mysterious copyleft BitTorrent defense bar that rallies against all copyright enforcement. While we have our opinions, we do not recognize ourselves in the description given by DBC’s lawyer. In fact, without copyright enforcement we would have very little to write about. We contacted Davis for a comment on the allegations but unfortunately he hasn’t replied to our request, perhaps worried that we would unleash our inner copyleftists. Luckily for him, however, his arguments did convince the court. Judge Jacqueline Scott granted his request to interrogate various alleged BitTorrent pirates, which he can use to find out more about the actual copyright infringers. Some would say that such depositions can be abused as another instrument to pressure defendants into settling, but those concerns are unwarranted according to Davis, of course.

SP Overview Minor Improvements A good while ago in the past there was a "Seed Limit" which prevented seed points from being earned at all if more than a certain number of eligible torrents were being seeded at the same time, this was however considered unnecessary and for years this limit has been made redundant by setting it to a value of 999 torrents which would never be reached. The SP Overview page has still been showing this limit however and each and every torrent entry has been showing "Seed Limit - Passed!", something that would never ever change. To help simplify the SP Overview page slightly all references to the now redundant Seed Limit have now been removed which means that "Seed Limit - Passed!" is no longer displayed on each and every entry and can now be completely disregarded. The documentation on the SP FAQ page has also been updated to reflect this change. This does NOT affect the number torrents that you can gain seed points on at once which is still up to 4 for non donors and up to 12 for donors and the actual seed point system itself has not been changed. I have also tweaked the SP Overview table layout on the default stylesheet, there are now column borders and the first column, "Torrent Name" will no longer expand beyond a certain limit that was sometimes crushing up the rest of the columns, instead very long torrent names are split across more than 1 line. If you would like to discuss this further or would like to see an example of the slightly improved layout please click here.

This week The Pirate Bay quietly celebrated its 13th anniversary. Where other giants have fallen in the past, the notorious Pirate ship has stayed afloat. Today we chat with the TPB-team to discuss their remarkable achievement. Hollywood hoped that it would never happen, but this week The Pirate Bay quietly turned thirteen years old. The site was founded in 2003 by Swedish pro-culture organization Piratbyrån (Piracy Bureau). The idea was to create the first public file-sharing network in Sweden, but the site soon turned into the global file-sharing icon it is today. Over the years there have been numerous attempts to shut the site down. Following pressure from the United States, Swedish authorities raided the site in 2006, only to see it come back stronger. The criminal convictions of the site’s founders didn’t kill the site either, nor did any of the subsequent attempts to take it offline. The Pirate Bay is still very much ‘alive’ today. That’s quite an achievement by itself, looking at all the other sites that have fallen over the years. Just last month KickassTorrents shut down, followed by Torrentz a few days ago. Many KickassTorrents and Torrentz users are now turning to TPB to get their daily dose of torrents. As a result, The Pirate Bay is now the most visited torrent site, once again. TorrentFreak spoke to several members of the TPB-crew. While they are not happy with the circumstances, they do say that the site has an important role to fulfil in the torrent community. “TPB is as important today as it was yesterday, and its role in being the galaxy’s most resilient torrent site will continue for the foreseeable future,” Spud17 says. “Sure, TPB has its flaws and glitches but it’s still the go-to site for all our media needs, and I can see TPB still being around in 20 or 30 years time, even if the technology changes,” she adds. Veteran TPB-crew member Xe agrees that TPB isn’t perfect but points to the site’s resilience as a crucial factor that’s particularly important today. “TPB ain’t perfect. There are plenty of things wrong with it, but it is simple, steadfast and true,” Xe tells TorrentFreak. “So it’s no real surprise that it is once more the destination of choice or that it has survived for so long in spite of the inevitable turnover of crew.” And resilient it is. Thirteen years after the site came online, The Pirate Bay is the “King of Torrents” once again. Finally, we close with a yearly overview of the top five torrent sites of the last decade. Notably, the Pirate Bay is the only site that appears in the list every year, which is perhaps the best illustration of the impact it had, and still has today. 2007 1. TorrentSpy 2. Mininova 3. The Pirate Bay 4. isoHunt 5. Demonoid 2008 1. Mininova 2. isoHunt 3. The Pirate Bay 4. Torrentz 5. BTJunkie 2009 1. The Pirate Bay 2. Mininova 3. isoHunt 4. Torrentz 5. Torrentreactor 2010 1. The Pirate Bay 2. Torrentz 3. isoHunt 4. Mininova 5. BTJunkie 2011 1. The Pirate Bay 2. Torrentz 3. isoHunt 4. KickassTorrents 5. BTJunkie 2012 1. The Pirate Bay 2. Torrentz.com 3. KickassTorrents 4. isoHunt 5. BTJunkie 2013 1. The Pirate Bay 2. KickassTorrents 3. Torrentz 4. ExtraTorrent 5. 1337X 2014 1. The Pirate Bay 2. KickassTorrents 3. Torrentz 4. ExtraTorrent 5. YIFY-Torrents 2015 1. KickassTorrents 2. Torrentz.com 3. ExtraTorrent 4. The Pirate Bay 5. YTS 2016 1. KickassTorrents 2. The Pirate Bay 3. ExtraTorrent 4. Torrentz 4. RARBG Today 1. The Pirate Bay 2. ExtraTorrent 3. RARBG 4. YTS.AG 5. 1337X Source: Torrentfreak.com

World War II thriller Anthropoid was released in the United States last week and as usual, an anti-piracy outfit has been busy taking down 'pirate' links from Google. However, that's proven somewhat problematic, since the movie hasn't even been leaked yet. Sadly, this initial screw-up is just the tip of the iceberg. Anthropoid is a new historical thriller which tells the story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II, and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. The movie has been getting mixed reviews so for those worried that their investment may leave them underwhelmed, a pirate copy is often the solution. In the early days following a release, file-sharers often have to put up with so-called ‘cam’ or camcorder copies. Nearly always of low quality, these are often avoided by those who don’t mind waiting for a better release. Nevertheless, studios feel that any copy is a threat and they often hire anti-piracy companies to purge them from the web. That’s exactly what New York City-based film distribution company Bleecker Street did to protect the release of Anthropoid with their hiring of India-based anti-piracy outfit MarkScan. On August 12, on the day of the movie’s release in the US, MarkScan began sending takedowns to Google. However, there was a ‘small’ problem. Anthropoid hadn’t even been leaked online yet. In a notice to Google targeting 66 unique domains, MarkScan demanded the removal of dozens of allegedly infringing links. Of course, not a single one related to a leak of the full movie. As can be seen in the sample below, many links reference sites that appear to have the movie but in fact only carry the official trailer. https://torrentfreak.com/images/anthropoid-dmca.png But while taking down the official trailer is enough to ensure that fewer people are aware of the movie’s existence, MarkScan weren’t finished yet, not by a long way. The very first link in the notice targets a completely unrelated and entirely legal short film which just happens to use the word ‘Anthropoid’ in its description. The third link – and this is a good one – attempts to stop anyone on Twitter finding the movie using the hashtag ‘Anthropoid’ by asking Google to remove ‘https://twitter.com/hashtag/anthropoid’ from its search indexes. What follows is a car crash of sizeable proportions, with MarkScan attempting to take down promotional material and video clips from the Wall Street Journal, People.com, The Hollywood Reporter, and many other sites discussing the title. As if that wasn’t enough, MarkScan then places the BBC in its sights, demanding that Google removes its world radio and TV homepage from the company’s search results, for no apparent reason. https://torrentfreak.com/images/anthropoid-dmca2.png Fortunately, Google spotted this disastrous notice before it did any real harm and refused to remove any links. That means that the many reviews the company tried to wipe out will stand, as will the BBC’s radio and TV page. However, it boggles the mind to think that an anti-piracy outfit would send such a notice (and presumably charge the distributor for it) before taking the time to check that the movie had actually been leaked online. But by now, that’s not really a surprise, especially given MarkScan’s earlier efforts. source TorrentFreak.com

Ever since Kickass Torrents has been shut down, people have been in dismay for they have been reliant on the site to download movies, television shows, games and etc. However, the reigning king of Torrent downloads; Piratebay has remained on the internet up to now. Just last month, the founder of Kickass Torrents was recently caught by the police and the site is now shut down. This brought the people to disappointment since they have relied on the site to illegally download movies online. Piratebay came to its rescue when Kickass Torrents was shut down, as they created an alternative for the site that was shut down, as reported by Mobipicker. The Piratebay community sends its support to other torrent sites. However, amidst many cases and times their site has been shut down, Piratebay has managed to keep their site on the internet, by reviving it over and over again. According to Christian Times, many lawsuits have found their way against the site since this time around, Piratebay is already celebrating its 13th anniversary. According to Peter Sunde, co-founder of the site who claims he still has no affiliation with the site, he believes that people need more sites to associate all the data rather than depending on some of the bigger sites on the internet. Once a big torrent site starts to go down, all the rest of the smaller sites tend to follow and be shut down as well. Many of the known torrent sites have been shut down already, such as Isohunt, Torrentz, YIFY and many more. However, they have still managed to have made an alternative despite their site being shut down. For now, Piratebay remains the reigning torrent site to date and seems to still continue to stand for years to come.

While previous reports suggested that The Pirate Bay (TPB) could possibly shut down after KickassTorrents (KAT) was taken down on the United States orders, latest reports show claim that TPB will turn out to be the last man standing. TPB is believed to take its former spot as the no. 1 torrent website. The Pirate Bay is once again the "King of Torrents," according to Torrent Freak. Apart from being the high traffic site, TPB recently celebrated its 13th anniversary and has proven that amid some setbacks experienced in the past, it remains up and running. KickassTorrents was brought down last month, forcing many users to flock to TPB for their needs. TPB held the first position since 2009 before it was overthrown by KAT in 2015 and 2016. With KickassTorrents shut down, there is no doubt that TPB has reclaimed its rightful spot. Fans were concerned that The Pirate Bay could also succumb to pressure from copyright corporations; especially after Torrentz.eu threw in the towel. However, TPB's history shows that it will not be easy to stop the site. TPB has come out to indicate its willingness to support KAT in terms of information dissemination. Spud 17 told the same publication that KAT supported TPB when they had problems in the past, and therefore, they are willing to do the same. "When both TPB and its forum went down, we had overwhelming support from KAT users on their forum, and our staff was able to keep the communities updated on important news and announcements thanks to the help and messages of support we received," Spud 17 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." Meanwhile, Extra Torrent is said to be the second most popular and reliable website following KAT and Torrentz.eu shutdown. Both TPB and Extra Torrent have been experiencing traffic surge. The torrent community is also advised to visit other safer sites like YTS.ag and IsoHunt.to. YTS.ag came into operation after the shutdown of YIFY, while IsoHunt.to has emerged to replace isoHunt that was taken down by MPAA.

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