A search is performed on The Pirate Bay Web site on a computer monitor in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, November 7, 2005. (Photo : Getty Images/ Adam Berry)
Speculations are rife that Extra Torrent may also shut down like Kickass Torrent and Torrentz. This implies that The Pirate Bay is perhaps the best alternative for torrent lovers.
The owner of Extra Torrent has already lost three mirror domains of the site. The owner can not login into his domain's control panel to access the three mirror sites. As a result, the torrents can only be accessed on extratorrent.site and extra.to.
Hence, they are rumors that all the remaining mirrors of Extra Torrent may also be forced offline soon, according to Torrent Freak. In case it happens then Extra Torrent will be the third such website to close down after Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.
The number one torrent website in the world Kickass Torrents was forced to shut shop in July when its owner Artem Paulim was arrested in Poland on numerous charges of copyright infringement. Soon, another site Torrentz was also forced offline due to a number of legal issues.
In the wake of the closure of Kickass Torrents and Torrentz, torrent fans started searching for other alternatives. "The King of Torrents" The Pirate Bay rose to the challenge and it attracted most of the traffic of the closed websites. Extra Torrent emerged as the number two torrent website in the world when it started experiencing traffic in surplus of 30 million users per day, according to the same publication.
Meanwhile, another torrent website that gained a lot of traffic was 1337x.to. Earlier, it was banned in numerous countries but a recent overhaul of design led to a steady increase in traffic for the website. The new design of the website 1337x.to resembles the design of "The King of Torrents" The Pirate Bay and hence the users of the latter torrent site are also starting to use the former site.
"The King of Torrents" The Pirate Bay is no stranger to legal issues. Numerous mirror sites of the brand have also closed down in the recent past but it keeps on resurfacing in a new format all the time.
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