Kickass Torrents owner arrested in Poland on U.S. charges. (Photo : YouTube/ BNO News)
While Pirate Bay and other torrent sites were blocked on Thursday in Australia on order of the Sydney Federal Court, the most famous torrent website in the world got back online the next day.
KAT.cr, the new website of the original KickAssTorrents, is back online on a new domain. Behind its creation are the original staffers of KickAssTorrent who built the community website. The new torrent site looks a lot like the old Kat.cr, Fossbytes reported.
Besides having a clean user database, the new website has some of the renowned uploaders from KickAssTorrents trusted by the pirate community who are expected to fill the website with fresh content. To ensure the member is safe, the staff of KAT.cr rebuilt the site and kept only the safe elements.
But the original administrators and crew of the old site are not part of the group of former staffers who build the new site even if they did not have access to the original code and data, according to Torrentfreak. However, they hope the original staffers would soon be cleared of the charges and freed.
When news of the new website spread on the internet, it resulted in very slow loading at KATcr.co because of the high server load. But they assure tech is working on the issue and the problem would soon be sorted out.
A criminal investigation of KickAss Torrent – the largest torrent site at that time – by the U.S. government caused the closure a few months ago of the site. The new staff are confident they would not face legal problems because they followed the proper DMCA takedown procedure similar to what YouTube did. They assured the materials on their site servers do not contain copyrighted material.
They insisted, “KAT is a community-based forum and a torrent search engine. It’s the heart of who we are and that will never change. Despite opinions to the contrary, torrents are not illegal and we do not host any content.”
