Torrents alternatives after fall of Kickass Torrents, Torrenthound and Torrentz: Kickass.mx shut down (Photo : Getty Images/ David Paul Morris)
The Pirate Bay has returned to their .org domain but the problems have also followed them back as more entities try to take them down while KickAssTorrents had some of their files taken down.
It is no secret that several copyright holders want to take all of the torrent sites down. The Pirate Bay has recently avoided one request from the RIAA as EasyDNS believes they do not really have any DMCA violations to date.
Pirates enjoy downloading their content for free but it has caused many headaches for the creators and publishers in the multimedia industry. HBO is even having problems maintaining a percentage of their viewership as there are a whole lot of Game of Thrones leaked episodes that are sometimes uploaded even before they are aired on the network.
The Pirate Bay is now back to their original .org domain where they started but co-founder Fredrik Neij is still considering to make an appeal to take back their .se domain, University Herald has learned. They are hoping to move back as the .org domain causes more problems than it resolves from their previous addresses.
Fighting off legal threats is not something new for torrent sites. If they get taken down, they usually resurface again after a few weeks or months at the latest.
One KickAssTorrents uploader even had more than 2400 torrents removed by the free game engine Unity company, TorrentFreak reported. The game engine has been used by many indie developers who made popular games such as the horror franchise Outlast, which consequentially got pirated due to its popularity and quality.
KAT even moved its site to the Dark Web in fears of being taken down entirely. TOR sites are not exactly safe considering that the FBI has seized several onion sites in the past year in extensive operations against drug sales and other illegal transactions happening on the Dark Web.
For the meantime, The Pirate Bay is safe as EasyDNS does not want to suspend their site on the grounds that they do not have DMCA violations in their .org domain. KickAssTorrents, however, may start to move their site entirely to the Dark Web after Unity managed to take down some of their files.
