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A directory is also a site where users can find other websites. Some sites focus on certain content – such as etree that focuses on live concerts – and some have no particular focus, like The Pirate Bay. Some sites specialize as search engines of other BitTorrent sites.
It was founded in 2008 and by November 2014, KAT became the most visited BitTorrent directory in the world, overtaking The Pirate Bay, according to the site's Alexa ranking. [1] KAT went offline on 20 July 2016 when the domain was seized by the U.S. government. The site's proxy servers were shut down by its staff at the same time. [2]
July 2016 – The world's largest torrent site KickassTorrents shuts down. [146] August 2016 – Torrent meta-search engine Torrentz.eu takes its torrents down, but is soon replaced by torrentz2.eu. [147] November 2016 – Private music tracker what.cd shut down. [148]
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According to the TorrentFreak news blog, 1337x is the second-most popular torrent website as of 2024. [2] The U.S. Trade Representative flagged it as one of the most notorious pirate sites earlier in 2024. [3] The site and its variants have been blocked in a variety of nations including Australia, and Portugal. [4]
A Pirate Bay spokesperson said that this measure would only have the opposite effect, as there are many ways to circumvent it, commenting: "This will just give us more traffic, as always. Thanks for the free advertising." [9] The court order listed domain names to block, which all included "www." The equivalent URLs without "www."
YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent. YIFY releases were characterised through their small file size, which attracted many downloaders.
It was available as an alternative and successor for the closed Torrentz.eu and KickassTorrents sites, [2] and its index included over 8 million torrent files, and had a clean, simple interface. [3] Beyond allowing torrent files of popular films, it also carried self-produced content. [4]