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Looks like the Swedish police have taken down the PirateBay.  (Most likely temp)

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/09/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-and-knock-the-site-offline/


So what else is everyone using?

Edit
Looks like its mirror is still up.
https://thepiratebay.cr

Edit2
List of mirrors & proxies
https://proxybay.info/

Edit3
Piratebay breaks silence
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=888018.msg9851224#msg9851224

The Pirate Bay’s forum Suprbay.org is also offline. The same goes for Bayimg.com and Pastebay.net.
I hope they can get site up and running ASAP.

I always start my day checking TPB for the latest downloads.

Not happy with this. Really hope this is just temporarily.

TY. I was what happened. My friend told me to use http://kickass.so/

Yup and if you need HD movies use https://yts.re/

Peter Sunde's thoughts about this: http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/

Don't know about other torrent clients, but VUZE lets you search from within the client.

EZTV also down, don't know if related.

Google is also removing piratebay apps.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2473253,00.asp

is this temporary or what?

Hopefully it will be fine, otherwise it's a sad step towards furthering Googles control... "Ok I need a torrent, I'll google it now that TPB is gone". Why aren't google's CEO's getting prison time?  ::)

Is that a serious question?

Nope, sarcasm, pure pure sarcasm.

:)

Anyway, google is the best site to find file sharing websites, this is how they piss in the people who censors their website:

https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/domains/?r=all-time

Probably just temporary, there was already talk about that before, and they saved their as*** once :D

It is not the first time that PB is taken down.

Usually they are back after some days at most

This is the case and sometimes mirrors in the meantime

Wonder if there are any other annoucements

Piratebay and all the mirrors are still offline. Here is a link to the status of all the mirrors which shows them as all down. https://proxybay.info/

hmmm.. i hope a decentralized alternative appears

Me and you both.  :-[

Pirate bay was decadent with all the porn and viagra ads around.

Even if it is permanent, it won't by no means be worse than when megaupload died, and we survived it.

I agree, all the ads were gross and the pop-ups were annoying. Just I live outside the US and it was my main source for current tv. I can find others, but just takes a little more effort.  :P

Why not use an ad/pop-up blocker?  ::) I do and have never been happier!  :)

piratebay is old news, I don't think most people uses it. Try popcorn thing where you could watch movies/tv shows streaming online.

Edit

It is called popcorn time, google it

I do but some still seemed to get through it.  ???

I have but it is too slow for me to use outside the USA. Thanks for the suggestion though.  ;D

it shouldn't be any slower than a regular bittorrent client

pah! Torrent on blockchain. Easy as. Go support datacoin developement (i knew there would be a big usecase and i'll be filthy rich).

Datacoin is already here.

:(
I hope it comes back soon.

That depends on which peers and seeds you are connecting with.

I mostly get at least 10MB/s downloads from trusted uploaders.

They have several 1GB/s seedboxes that they use for sharing.

Here is an update for anyone who is interested. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

It included server other sites such as EZTV.it , Torrage and others..Looks like they won't be returning as all the servers were sized by police.  :o >:(

Terrible news. I hope for some kind of resurrection in the future. They can move to some distant country without those horrendous laws. Like China - they do not care about piracy at all.

I hope so as well. In the past they have been able to maintain the servers and keep the mirror sites running. I guess they nabbed the master servers so the mirrors cannot keep updated. At least it looks like that. It really sucks! The other torrent sites are not as nearly user friendly as PB. I hope it can return in some form in the future.  :'(

I hope they'll find a way to come back or  else a good alternative comes up.

They should be able to update a mirror into a master.  I've seen them raided before, and they always come back up.

You are right - they have the best user interface, even with all the annoying ads.   :)

There are more than 4-5 mirrors for TPB (seen some of them on torrentz and other torrent search engines). Sad it was taken down for everyone not spending tons of dollars on programs/tv shows etc... lets see if it comes back...

Ive used yify a lot, but I dont understand how he manages to stay online, and I fear its some kind of honeytrap. Its almost too good to be true.

http://rt.com/news/212911-pirate-bay-police-raid/

Thepiratebay.cr, seems to be too much traffic though.

Pirate Bay vs. Governments battle is another reminder to move beyond centralized servers.
If what we're attempting to do is share files in an annonymous, private and free fashion, why are we still relying on centralized servers to do the job for us?

http://www.de-centralize.com/decentralize-media-story-40813

All proxies are down from the looks of it. Why is everyone making such a big deal about this? They won't and can't die.
I'd host it myself if they gave me the software..

http://kickass.to/ is your best option after Piratebay.

I've lost count of how many times its been taken down but it'll just pop back up. Plenty of alternatives anyway. I agree that we need to have a decent decentralised option as centralised torrent sites will likely get taken down at some point.

Well, TPB was the biggest of the free tracker torrent known, and they were being chased for years, thats the problem.

Piratebay is like a hydra, cut off one head and she will grow two more  8)

Looks like it's back.

http://thepiratebay.ee

-edit-
Site may not be legit...just a clone copy.  Use with caution.

Like I've said, someone is going to host it somewhere again.

The Pirate Bay isn't even on a true server anyway. They're typically loaded onto virtual servers and only the front end-load balancer is exposed. The back-end is stored in RAM. The police won't be able to access all the information that contains cloud hosting location, etc. There's only a couple of things I can think of off the bat that would reveal that information, but if it hasn't been done yet then I'm confident TPB isn't in any huge threat of being permanently disabled. The people behind it really know their stuff.

Yup its working for me. Pirates cant be defeated  ;D

thanks :-)

I'm not getting anything on the proxies yet and that link is blocked by my stupid ISP.

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-has-not-been-resurrected-yet-141210/

It looks like that link is dodgy, I wouldn't use it.

I have heard that as well.  Definitely do not send them any donations/money and hide your ip behind a VPN or annonimizer.  I suspect the magnet hashes are legit and ok, but you never know.  As always, use caution.

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-slaps-pathetic-proxies-and-scammy-copies-120507/

thepiratebay.ee looks to be legitimate though I can't be sure. It's blocked in the UK, use Tor to access it.

They had a Tor hidden service too, anyone have the URL for it? maybe thats still up too. (EDIT: its down too, http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/)

Piratebay was down so many times ...

For me it is like a part of a history of the Internet :)

I believe it will be up again but what I know for sure is that pirates are impossible to be stopped.

I don't recommend to use that .ee at the moment even if it is legit, there is no official info about it yet anywhere so far as I know.

Wait 2 days. Things will go back to normal :)


Kind regards.

It is a working mirror site but it looks to be using a very old set of data back from 2012. It will work for future postings directly on the site but doesn't have anything current, unfortunately.

Yea, anybody can download the old PirateBay site from 2012.  It's only a 90MB file.

https://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-its-only-90-mb-120209/

List of PB alternatives.......

Public trackers

https://kickass.so/

https://isohunt.to/

http://www.limetorrents.cc/

http://extratorrent.cc/

https://yts.re/browse-movie.com

http://www.yify-torrent.org/

http://www.torrentfunk.com/

http://www.torrentdownloads.me/

http://1337x.to/

https://eztv.it/

http://rarbg.com/index6.php

http://www.torrenthound.com/

Search-engines

http://torrentz.eu/

http://bitsnoop.com/

Thanks, I will add this sites to my favourites. Also if you are looking for magazines, comics, e-books, music, videos etc. This site has it all. It is direct download too. No torrents.

http://avaxhm.com/ (http://avaxhm.com/)

Go to archive.org put thepiratebay.se in the wayback machine

and select 9 Dec. That way you can at least use the latest

archived copy.

Too bad, I really liked it, my gf liked it even more, why did they took it down?

im not really sure they should bring it back. recently theres been so many ads its stupid. its turned more into a statement of rebellion showing the cops you cant take it down rather than being about sharing files.

maybe they will bring it back but with the new crew running it i cant see me using it much there are much better alternative these days and the only reason tpb is still around is the name and the media,if theyd have left it alone im pretty sure tpb would have died or evolved by now. much like the laws its now stuck in the past

Your girlfriend likes pirated files more than you? :D I guess you need to spend more time with her. Maybe it is sign to do that.

Why they took it down? I think it has something to do with piracy being illegal...

This is a fairly good torrent site for tv and movies as well. My current replacement for PB. http://extratorrent.cc  ::)

They will multiply their servers.
http://rt.com/news/213387-pirate-bay-party-chairman/

There we go.

really sad for anyone who isn't an owner of something they provided for free :D . There are plenty of other torrent sites and tons of copies for TPB so till it comes back there won't be a "torrent" shortage.

They can't stop it. Demonoid goes away, something new pops up. Megaupload goes away, something new pops up. Btjunkie goes away, something new pops up. TPB goes away, something new pops up. Why will the government not stop already. They are never ever going to end file sharing.

Because it's not the gov that really cares. It's hollyweird, mpaa, and the global movie investors who are getting their panties in a bunch.

I stopped using tpb years ago.  Kickass.to all the way baby

I tend to use kickass as my backup site to go download stuff from, but yeah, they can't stop it, especially when they have funding sources like Bitcoin which can't be shut down.

I'm curious if this take down is related to the U.S. gov's claim to have broken tor? Is there a link between the two?

We can only theorise really can't we? But if I were to it would certainly be part of a larger PR exercise and a show of force not only to people resisting the U.S but also to convince their masters who's in charge.

I highly doubt that it is. TPB was run on virtual servers where only 1 part of it was exposed.
It had to be found one day.

Never know really, but either way, we'll win :P

I am wondering why gov is doing this.

They should already understand that they cannot stop pirates.

They can bail whoever they want, they can close as many servers as they want.
This will only change the form of piracy. For stronger.

I was born almost 30 years ago. In my country in 80's and 1st half of 90's people were selling 'illegal' copies of music, movies and later on 8-bit games with no restrictions. It was 'legal'.

Every weekend there was  (it is going on till now! :) ) a huge flee market placed in my city were people were mostly selling VHS, Floppy disks, tapes with games/music/movies.

I was buying copied games for C-64 and later on for Amiga with no problem in most of the computer shops from those times.
It wasn't illegal. Well.. maybe it was but no one was giving a fu** about it.

Later on the new law came and they start chasing pirates with the police.
It was let say 20 years ago ... did they won with pirates? No.

Now on you cannot buy copied games in the computer shop, but every weekend people are doing this on the mentioned before flee market.
It is illegal but for some reason they are doing this for years and well ... only a little percent of them get any fine or smthing like that.
Well ... I don't understand why people are buying anything from them when they have/had a Pirate's bay and their own Internet but perhaps for many people using a torrent is just too hard to learn. Better pay other pirate for downloading and burning :)

What was my point ... Ah, yes. Pirates cannot be stopped.
Pirates will always come with new ideas. Just stop chasing them ... that will save money (money from our taxes) and their time...

Same thing with Tor... I must say that I highly respect Tor idea. But I am not using it. I don't really feel that I need to do it. And with all security issues inside of Tor I choose to not use it. But it is really amazing how does it work and I respect it a lot.
Gov cannot stop Tor. They can brake it but ... someone will came with another idea which will be even better.
So why they not just leave it ... ? :) ...

Eh.
BTW. I hate the way in which gov's system is trying to have control over everything.
And I hate democracy. Most of the world is using democracy but well ... it seems to be not working well.
It is "we" who are choosing those people who are trying to take control over us.
It is "we" who are paying them with taxes.
it is "we" who SHOULD HAVE CONTROL OVER EVERYTHING... Sorry for the caps... Just my heart beat 2 times faster when I think about that.



Kind regards.

When I visited China years ago I was blown away by how easy it was to find and buy knockoffs and pirated wares. Somewhere like China (I think) would be ideal as a home base of operations for sites like ThePirateBay.

Democracy is a sham. Ideally it was a means for the general population to vote in one of their peers to represent them in government, yet it has obviously been subverted by the oligarchs to serve their needs, while merely maintaining the guise of acting in the best interest of their constituents. Most politicians are not representative of a country's general population, since most politicians are millionaires, while much of the general population struggles to remain above the poverty line. It is safe to say that the peers of these politicians are the oligarchical class who would very much like to remain in (or gain even greater) positions of power and live in the lap of luxury.

I too get anxious just thinking about it or when trying to convince people "The World is a Stage" and things are often not as they seem.

They already have a backup server, domain and what not. Nothing can bring them down. They're invincible. Their power level is probably OVER 9000. :D

This sucks, but there are more sites out there.

What do you guys think of private trackers? Worth the money?

It is going to take some time for it to come back up

I got an invite to speed.cd, a private tracker.. altough i wont risk getting banned if u just leech :P

China? Really? You realize to share files they would need an internet connection to the rest of the world, right? lol

WTF was I thinking?! I forgot how censored the internet is there.  :-[
http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt344/JHnGA09/Misc/1192664_facepalm.gif

IT's impossible to take down pirate bay
They will rise up again

Even they able to take down pirate bay
There are plenty torrent/P2P sites

Law can't take down ilegal content  :(

ROFL   I have days like that. It's when I say things like, "does anyone know what color blue is"?

I was expecting TPB to be back online again.

Not sure why it takes them this long.

Haven't downloaded anything in days  :D

Piratebay Breaks Silence:

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-crew-responds-to-the-raid-copies-and-the-future-141215/

There are many other torrent sites to choose from. Taking down TPB to stop the piracy is like blowing up Facebook's data center in hope of killing the social media.

I wonder why websites like this is still being hosted in a centralized server. It is supposed to be hosted on a decentralized network using bit torrent like architecture.

My favourite torrent

Hope they will up again soon

So my interpretation of the TPB response is, they are taking this opportunity to re-evaluate their life priorities and probably call it quits.

I don't think they are coming back. One of the founders said he hopes it stays head. I think this time is for real.

 :'(

IsoHunt which has had it's own issues with being taken down, is offering TPB some support.  Af first it looked to be just another mirror site, but they appear to be serving new contest. You can read the story here: http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/12/isohunt-unofficially-resurrects-the-pirate-bay/ (http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/12/isohunt-unofficially-resurrects-the-pirate-bay/)

Isohunt was running out of Canada for a long time but was shut down after various court appeals from what I know.  They were brought back to life by some anonymous group of people, no clue where it is ran out of now.  Former staff of the Canadian version claim they know nothing about the new site, even though it looks to be exactly the same.

http://isohunt.to/ (http://isohunt.to/)

How far is the decentralizing thing currently as far as hosting a huge website?

Can it handle the enormous traffic that it generates at a daily basis and still work smooth?

I had a look at kickass.so and it's not that bad to be honest. Huge loads of seeds.

Why would they do that?
If they do decide, how about they share their software with me. I'd be glad to host it.

Starting to show some signs of life

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-domain-back-online-waving-a-pirate-flag-141221/

I think I read somewhere that they didn't want to share it because it was too badly programed xD
But for now you have the open bay if you want.

So the Swedish Police did it?... Can't wait for the real TPB to come back since the other (even the clones) don't feel quite like it... There are hundreds of torrent sites/clones/sources so this isn't so effective IMO as TPB will possibly come back after a while...

Well I need more than that. I need the software that helped them keep hidden so long. It's not like a 'host' wouldn't notice me hosting a pirate ship using their services.  :D

Worst case scenario they give the domain to someone else, and someone clones the site as it was before.

TPB won't die, any way or another

deep web under attack

details?

pirate bay is not deep web, if it you meant

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-disable-tor-network

Hmm... I wonder if it's possible to implement torrent links in a decentralized blockchain-style manner? The Bitcoin blockchain is just a list of transactions. It shouldn't be too difficult to create a blockchain composed of torrent entries. Some type of rating system could be implemented on top to filter out non-genuine entries and there could be a built-in mechanism for pruning of old or inactive links.

Datacoin seems to work pretty well for data so I'd be surprised if the concept isn't viable for torrents - which are a type of data.

http://www.tribler.org/

And there are also forks of popcorn time that do not need central servers.

is really possible take down tor? these directory authorities, if seized, cannot be simply replaced?

Tribler:
Inspired by - it doesn't use TOR itself. Also they've stated that it won't keep you safe from the government rather lawyers and such.

Piratebay is dead and gone. Let's bury it and move on!  :'(

How about code a v2 of it, and make it so awesome that the government will regret taking down the first one?  ;)

Sure go for it. Let me know when you are done. You can use blockchain technology. :-*

What makes you so confident that the piratebay won't come back?

For the owners of the site it was a money machine with their hot girl ads.

Not sure if they are willing to stop when they can make a good bit of cash.

Piratebay return to live !

^ what do you mean? I only see a timer, the pirate flag on the background and some other image. : /

A single mad coding it -> mistake. I'd need a good team. Anyhow I'm not related to the original team, so that's not currently possible.

Anyone know what is up with Piratebay now? Showing a countdown and strange images?  ???

same here... is there a secret entrance ???

https://thepiratebay.cr/
http://thepiratebay.com.ua/

Just use other proxies. TPB is a set of proxy nodes, only some of them were taken down.

Just checked the website. Why has it got a counter and a pirate flag?

here it redirects to http://thepiratebay.ee/

thanks working !!!

Update!

http://thepiratebay.se/ now has a timer counting DOWN to some event!

24 days away...

February 1st.

Additional notes besides the timers it looks like Ukraine war zone that it is became the new pirate base Hoo RAH.

http://www.koamtv.com/story/27783382/pirate-bay-sets-sail-again-after-servers-raided-in-sweden-are-migrated-to-new-base-in-ukraine

Pirate Bay Sets Sail Again After Servers Raided In Sweden Are Migrated To New Base In Ukraine

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Infamous torrent search engine Pirate Bay was sunk again after a server raid in Sweden, but has emerged more determined than ever with servers located in Ukraine.

San Francisco, CA, United States of America – January 7, 2015 /MarketersMedia/ —

The Pirate Bay was for many people their first experience of peer to peer file sharing on a large scale and became the first place to search for the latest movies and TV shows to download and view for free. For millions of people the ease of access to immediately available, high quality copies of media that was as yet unavailable to most around the world was a sensational resource. The website has been shut down many times, often forcibly, but has now risen again with a new home in Ukraine.

Pirate Bay now has its own section on the site entitled ‘legal threats’, suggesting their belligerence toward the authorities has not been dampened by the recent attack in Sweden which saw their servers raided. The database was recovered however and has now been uploaded to servers in the Ukraine which will keep it safe and secure for the foreseeable future.

The site is, besides its URL, is the same as it has always been, with simple and effective search options as well as the ability to add files for sharing. Far from just movies and TV, the site also allows people to peer-share video games, books, comics, music and almost all other media.

A spokesperson for Pirate Bay explained, “The Pirate Bay can be chased to the ends of the earth, but the authorities will never stop it. It has become an online institution and its existence is mandated by its community of millions of active users, who will always guarantee its continuation in the face of legal aggression. Our new servers in the Ukraine will now enable us to safely serve that community with the service they want, without having to charge them for the privilege.”

http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/07/5-signs-the-pirate-bay-could-become-the-flagship-for-an-open-file-sharing-network/

Hail Hydra

I wonder if this will help the price of btc to increase.

Think its a good time to buy some btc again :)

Why would piratebay going down help btc price go up?

It wouldn't.  :o

It breathes again! The Phoenix has risen from the dead.  ;D

http://s16.postimg.org/z3bpwshjl/Screenshot_2015_02_01_09_40_03.jpg (http://postimg.org/image/z3bpwshjl/)

IT'S ALIVE!!1

This is the original piratebay site not honeypot collecting users information?

The original at https://thepiratebay.se/, although there seems to be disagreements between the people involved in the website management https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-wont-make-a-full-comeback-staff-revolt-150127/ .

That's like saying the government stopped illegal drug activity completely by "shutting down SR", now look creator is about to get off clean...and there is 3 new ones popping up each time one is shut down...same with torrent sites. lol

What makes you think "creator is about to get off clean"?

They should play that song when you enter the page ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaolVEJEjV4

I still cannot access the site.

Where do you live? Pirate Bay may be blocked there.

Here, try these:

http://piratebrowser.com/

https://www.torproject.org/

Try http://proxyduck.com/

He seems to know everything.

pirate bay is now hosted in moldova. the moldavian law accept this.

https://www.facebook.com/trabia.network/posts/920765214614677

I can not open the site. It is down?

Works fine here.

Check: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Well is sure hope hes right. Poor guy. :(

It's up for me, though it took a while to load. Give it time i'll get back on it's feet.

TOR
For those of you that wants to connect to TPB using TOR the old .onion address is back up and running.
http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion

It was never, and never will be down. There are countless mirrors.

Now http://www.kickass.so/ is down.  :'(

Proxied: http://kickass.filesoup.com/

Why it was taken down? It was my primary source of good stuff. Any news about it? Is it permanent? Greedy bastards from big corporations are making moves lately...

kickass.to

Yep, it has reverted back to kickass.to


http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/

Piratebay went down again. Were they seized again?  ???

https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-down-again-150213/

I forgot to thank you guys for the update, so I'll just do it now. Thanks!  :)

http://kickass.to/ is working just fine. I just dl'd and watched the latest episode of Archer today.

Wow. Looking at the stories on torrentfreak it appears freedom of speech us under some sort of massive coordinated attack from powers the world over. Some headlines:

• Pirate Bay Goes Down Again
• EURid Suspends TorrentShack Domain Name After Complaint
• Torrent Sites Shut Down After Swedish Police Arrest Five
• BTDigg and BIllionUploads Disappear Without Trace
• VPN and TOR Ban Looming on the Horizon for Russia
• YouTube Flags Cat Purring as Copyright Infringing Music
• File-Sharing Icon RapidShare Shuts Down
• The Pirate Bay Domains Targeted in Legal Action
• Megaupload Programmer Arrested in The U.S.
• KickassTorrents Taken Down By Domain Name Seizure

Just a few from the first 2 pages. torrentfreak has never had so much news that is so uniformly abysmal and depressing. never has it ever been this bad. i guess the only silver lining is that it will finally put a fire under programmers to figure out how decentralize the internet once and for all. it would be terrifying if i didnt already know how it will end (i.e the same thing that happened when they shut down napster)

The copyright industry will go after the programmers, they've already start doing so.

How the hell they can do it? They can even take down Somalian sites now? I thought Somalia is the lawless country and they don't care about online piracy...

Corruption and US influence...

Good luck. People have become accustomed to freedom of information. The moment anyone tries to stop that the resistance will be overwhelming. The moment some skilled programmer finds himself in the situation where he is trying to send some information to someone but he is unable, he is going to start working immediately to resolve that problem.

Sure, eventuality we will find a away, but they won't go down without a lot of fighting.

POPCORN TIME DEVS DROP LIKE FLIES, BUT NO ONE WILL TALK (http://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-devs-drop-like-flies-but-no-one-will-talk-140420/)

MPAA PULLS “POPCORN TIME” REPOSITORIES OFF GITHUB (http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-pulls-popcorn-time-off-github-140711/)

LEAK EXPOSES HOLLYWOOD’S GLOBAL ANTI-PIRACY STRATEGY (http://torrentfreak.com/leak-exposes-hollywoods-global-anti-piracy-strategy-141212/)

We need a decentralized source system

How did the hollywood gangsters find out who the developer was? Didn't he use tor and vpn's when communicating with the outside world? Very strange.

Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/go-prison-sharing-files-thats-what-hollywood-wants-secret-tpp-deal)

try piratebay.sl...maybe works ;)

I was getting used to kickass.so after TPB was taken down, and now kickass is taken down. >:(

I switched back to TPB for downloading stuff. Let's hope it stays online now.

Isn't there a way to have a domain that can't get seized by any party?

Kickass is up at kickass.to.

I don't know about domain but we could upload things to the blockchain xD or maybe just send the magnet links there.
I think there is an alt coin that does something like that lol.

it is called datacoin.

but might be hard for some people understand the concept

I know they looked into buying islands in the past,they must have given up the idea
https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-to-buy-sealand/

@chubiruba that wasn't the coin I was thinking but looks like it does the same lol.
But I don't think it is being updated anymore. : /

KickAss has a new domain which is working fine for me for last several months:
http://kickass.to/

Also, IsoHunt has made a clone of old piratebay site and has released the code to GitHub so that anyone can now run his own copy of the piratebay.
https://oldpiratebay.org/
https://github.com/isohuntto/openbay

And the real piratebay is also UP again! :D
https://thepiratebay.se/

thank you :)
already exist one TOR link to access KickAss?

Not sure what you're asking. You're asking for an .onion link to KickAss which can be accessed using TOR?

I don't think it exists.

you have got another torentts like torentts4free.com and its safe...but probably they will shutdown again ... :(

Good idea to lock this thread since Piratebay is back up and running.

Well it keeps going up and down so having someplace for people to post alternatives is a good idea.

Alternatively tribler doesn't rely on torrent aggregation sights like pirate bay and kickass. It just asks all of the peers that you are connected to if they have the torrent you are looking for and they will forward your request to all the peers they know ect... ect... It's pretty amazing. I wish more people used it. As it is now enough people use it that i can find SOME of the things im looking for some times that way. Certainly no where near all. If more people used it though it would have more of a network effect and everyone could find w/e file they were looking for without any need for services like piratebay.

For those who do not know yet; Game of Throne Season 5 Episodes 2, 3, 4 were leaked and are available on the torrents of course. Good luck, g

Thanks. It helps a lot.