Torrents alternatives after fall of Kickass Torrents, Torrenthound and Torrentz: Kickass.mx shut down (Photo : Getty Images/ David Paul Morris)
The Pirate Bay has finally come full circle when it comes to their rotation of the domain names over the years it has been hunted and shut down by authorities.
There were a few months or weeks that the Pirate Bay has been indefinitely shut down. However, the site still lived on through proxies and other methods.
In 2003, The Pirate Bay started hosting torrents for mostly illegal content on the Internet. The very first address was thepiratebay.org and it quickly became famous with pirates.
Internet users could just download a video game, movie, TV show or music album of their choice without having to pay for it. That is what made the torrent site notorious in the eyes of the authorities.
In all the months and years of the site's existence, it has moved from one domain to the other. It was done so that they would be able to avoid as much as legal threats and seizures.
The Pirate Bay has been using the .SE domain in the past few months but a Swedish court ruled against the owners, Torrent Freak reported. This led to the site going back to their original .org domain that many people have known.
Currently, the case regarding the SE domain is still ongoing. The owners of the torrent site just moved to .org just in case that they would get shut down again.
There are other torrent sites available on the Internet but most of them are often unreliable. Kickass Torrents is one of the trusted torrent sites as it boomed in popularity lately.
The Pirate Bay still has pending cases in Australia regarding intellectual property disputes and such, Ecumenical News has learned. Foxtel, a TV network, has also filed a case against the torrent site.
If history does indeed repeat itself, the torrent sites would just rotate again with their domains in order to avoid seizure and shut downs. Pirates believe that there will never be a time where torrents will be taken down for good.
Users can now access The Pirate Bay again through its .org domain where it originally started. It could still rotate in the next few months as it battles the legal cases against them.
