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I normally have Guy on ignore so I had to hit the 'show ignored content' button to really follow what was going on

I don't really care if Guy disagree's with my statement or not, it was just confusing, to me, as to why he felt the need to link a news article from AVN, as if he's a representative of the porn industry
I might have been more understanding of the rating if he said he was personally against torrents or people sharing things over the internet, but no, just a "I disagree with this because the porn industry says it's bad"

and for the record, yes, I like and use torrents, but kickass isn't the only torrent site out there, and it's millions of users would have moved onto the next
I normally wouldn't have posted anything, but as soon as I discovered that it was back, this thread popped into mind and felt compelled to perform some thread necromancy because if KAT going down was good enough to create a thread about... KAT coming back is certainly good enough to post about :p

Thank you for posting because some of us didn't know it was back and it's good to know for....science.
Also pretty sure every entertainment industry that can be torrented hates torrents, lol. Kind of tangential but I follow a lot of comics creators/publishers and they obviously hate illegal downloads but they talk about specific sites so much that I think it's becomes advertising, like how Amber doesn't let us post specific cam uploading sites specifically for that reason.
 
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I wonder how Kickass was able to get back online? I'm so confused about stuff like that. If they were able to be shut down before, wouldn't that make them more susceptible to being shut down again?
quickly before I leave for work...
generally it involves shifting countries/servers
kickass has changed addresses a few times before... the previous address was kickass.cr.... now it's kickass.cd
I don't know where .cd is based but it's likely somewhere where it makes it harder for the US gov to apply their laws.
 
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quickly before I leave for work...
generally it involves shifting countries/servers
kickass has changed addresses a few times before... the previous address was kickass.cr.... now it's kickass.cd
I don't know where .cd is based but it's likely somewhere where it makes it harder for the US gov to apply their laws.
It's actually a new torrent site that named it self after Kickass.
http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/31/k...-go-down-but-new-kat-sites-quickly-spring-up/
 
wonder how Kickass was able to get back online? I'm so confused about stuff like that. If they were able to be shut down before, wouldn't that make them more susceptible to being shut down again?


Yep, not the full exact site, but a mirror. Several other sites use to copy the content of the main site, so they had most of the content already. This one at the '.cd' url is now on a server located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Technically there's been a couple mirrors out there running since the main one got shut down. But they were glitchy and didn't work near as well. And without the main one to get new submissions they quickly fell out of date. This one seems to taking the lead as the successor, so it's been getting new torrents sent to it. Although it's really a shadow of what the main one was. If you visit the site, notice you can't sort by age, seed, leech, or size yet. Those use to be sort-able columns to help narrow down search results quickly. So this one is basically just a long list. Long way to go yet.
 
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Yep, not the full exact site, but a mirror. Several other sites use to copy the content of the main site, so they had most of the content already. This one at the '.cd' url is now on a server located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Technically there's been a couple mirrors out there running since the main one got shut down. But they were glitchy and didn't work near as well. And without the main one to get new submissions they quickly fell out of date. This one seems to taking the lead as the successor, so it's been getting new torrents sent to it. Although it's really a shadow of what the main one was. If you visit the site, notice you can't sort by age, seed, leech, or size yet. Those use to be sort-able columns to help narrow down search results quickly. So this one is basically just a long list. Long way to go yet.
Why is the original Pirate Bay always able to come back?
 
Why is the original Pirate Bay always able to come back?

Not exactly sure. Guessing they had a better plan in place. Replacement servers in other countries lined up ahead of time to move to if they were seized. Multiple people with access to move it after the creators were being arrested. Stuff like that. They had their domains shut down many times in the past and were always back up and running within a day or two at a new countries servers.

Where Kickass appears to be one owner who didn't have those things in place. When they took over his main server, that was it.

Totally just a theory here. But i'm guessing piratebay creators were more about the 'free transmission of stuff.' So they geared it to be resilient. The kickass owner was more about getting ad revenue for himself. So he didn't entrust it all to anyone else as a backup. Just my theory.
 
I'm thinking out loud--- How do I legally create a torrent site? Or should I just create a streaming site?

I'd guess the same as any other torrent site but you'd either have to have a small army of people instantly removing anything that was copywrited, or manage to negotiate and pay for the rights for things to be torrented and charge members a subscrition, which would basically be a streaming site but with less bandwidth requirements.
 


Yes, i reposted that same image from earlier in the thread. But it's appropriate.

Let us all bow our heads in silence as we mourn the passing of another great one.


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