The alleged founder and operator of the most popular torrenting site in the world, KickassTorrents (KAT), has been and the site's domains seized. However, as we learned with the campaign to stop The Pirate Bay, you just can't keep a good pirate site down. We've already spotted at least two clones of KAT, including ( — a fairly limited mirror), and a second located at. 'hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade.'
Prison Break will appear in next week’s chart, probably on top. Last year, Prison Break was the fifth most popular TV-show on BitTorrent, after Heroes, Top Gear, Battlestar Galactica and Lost. Jan 26, 2018 - Prison Break Season 1 Episode 2 Torrent Kickass. An engineer gets himself incarcerated so he can spring his death-row brother (framed for a.
A statement emailed to The Verge from the creators of KAT.am claims the site is 'hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare.' The anonymous contact said they'd improved on the original KickassTorrents site by adding a mobile version, and noted (with the original, ambiguous, wording retained here) that the site 'will has the complete torrent database of KAT, including the comments, user information intact.'
We're not sure whether that means KAT.am has this complete log of comments, etc., or will have it at some point in the future. At the time of writing this article, access to KAT.am was spotty. All this shows what we already knew: that you can't completely remove piracy sites from the internet, but you can discourage those who want to run them. The Department of Justice's statement on KAT's alleged founder and operator, 30-year-old Artem Vaulin, charges him with 'unlawfully distributing well over $1 billion of copyrighted materials,' and claims that he collected roughly $16 million in advertising revenue a year.
KickassTorrents may be back (sort of), but Vaulin's future is about get a lot tougher. Update July 30th, 09:40AM ET: The cat-and-mouse game continues: KAT.am has been taken down, and the site has been moved over to kickass.cd. Expect that to change eventually too.
Increasingly people are using BitTorrent to download their favorite TV-shows. The rise of unauthorized downloading of TV-shows is a signal that customers want something that is not available through other channels. It’s more about availability than the fact that it’s free and should be viewed as an opportunity, not a threat. The millions of online viewers are catching up with the, and are now a significant part of the show’s overall fanbase. Jesse Alexander, the executive producer of the popular TV-shows “Heroes” and “Lost” told TorrentFreak in an interview that his shows actually, because fans don’t have to miss a show, and often inspire others to watch. “People watching shows such as Lost and Heroes on BitTorrent is the present world reality,” Alexander told us.
“TV networks have to recognize this, give their viewers more ways to interact with the shows, and find ways to generate revenue from every member of the global audience.” This week the new TV-season has started, but our weekly TV-Show download chart is the last one of the summer season. Prison Break will appear in next week’s chart, probably on top.
Last year, Prison Break was most popular TV-show on BitTorrent, after Heroes, Top Gear, Battlestar Galactica and Lost. Carlos do carmo youtube. The data for the weekly download chart is collected by from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only. Top Downloads August 24 – August 31 Ranking (last week) TV-show 1 (2) 2 (5) 3 (4) 4 (new) 5 (new) 6 (new) 7 (new) 8 (10) 9 (9) 10 (new).