Kickass Torrets taken offline; owner arrested

[Hydra009]

http://gizmodo.com/your-favorite-torrent-site-kickasstorrents-goes-offline-1784003881

Artem Vaulin, 30, of Poland, was arrested in the Ukraine on a number of charges, including conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement.

This is a big hit for the torrent community, since KAT was one of, if not the, most popular torrent site, even bigger than the Pirate Bay. According to the criminal complaint, KAT is the 69th most frequently visited website online, and receives over 50 million unique hits a month.

What is dead may never die.

[Shiranu]

That's a shame. I have noticed lately that there does seem to be a crackdown on alot of sites that use to stream alot of series... it's lately become a real pain in the ass to find a good source for the series I watch.

[Hydra009]

Yeah, there's been a spree of that lately.  My...uhhh...friend says so at least.  However, for every one that goes offline, two more come online.  Can't stop the signal.

[PickelledEggs]

However, for every one that goes offline, two more come online.

A fucking hydra. By mutha-fuckin' definition.

[wolf39us]

Fuck Steve... lol I was about to post this shit

[SGOS]

I'm just hearing about this now?  Hell, I never had a chance to enjoy the service, and it's gone before I even had a chance to bookmark it.  Somewhere there needs to be a compromise between outright piracy, and being charged 22 dollars to buy a DVD that is worth a fourth of that.  They sell old DVDs in those bargain bins for a fourth of that, so you know it's profitable, but if corporations don't make an egregious profit, they claim a quarterly loss.  But at $6 dollars a DVD, I'd be buying 4 DVDs a week, and I'd consider that a fair price, and we could all be happy.  But at $22, corporations get to be happier than me, and that's a bummer.  LOL

Piracy exists because consumers are cheap, while producers are greedy.  Can't we find common ground?

[wolf39us]

For those who are savy enough... you should use NZB

http://frugalusenet.com/  - Service is $50 a year for unlimited downloads
http://nzbget.net/ - The client you use to download stuff


https://01100111011001010110010101101011.info/
https://nzbgeek.info/   -- The "search" site that you would use to find things to download.  I think it's $30 lifetime.




These are just what I use.  There are plenty of alternatives though!

[PickelledEggs]

Yeah. NZB is so much safer than torrents

Sent from your mom.

[PickelledEggs]

I wasn't being sarcastic, btw. I meant that

Sent from your mom.

[Atheon]

Grrr... I've decided to run for benevolent dictator. I will put an end to the persecution of torrent sites, and ban the RIAA.

[PickelledEggs]

They took down the a friend of mine's favorite usenet search engine, usenetcrawler, but he found a new one called http://nzb.is/ that looks pretty promising.

[wolf39us]

Crawler was free to my knowledge.


Go premium and you shouldn't have a problem!

[widdershins]

http://gizmodo.com/your-favorite-torrent-site-kickasstorrents-goes-offline-1784003881
What is dead may never die.

What is dead may never die.

Man, I can't believe I'm the ONLY one here to repeat it.

[PickelledEggs]

You can't kill me. I'm already dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUjTtjBtTM8

[Draconic Aiur]

Why is pirate bay still up?