Piratebay taken down

[Snorek]

Now http://www.kickass.so/ is down. 

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...

[rokkyroad]

kickass.to

[galdur]

kickass.to

Yep, it has reverted back to kickass.to

Kickass.so was seized by the .SO registry who also blacklisted the scam site kickasstorrents.so, which is not affiliated with the KAT team. It is likely that the registry acted following a complaint from copyright holders although this hasn’t been officially confirmed yet.

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

[siampumpkin]

Piratebay went down again. Were they seized again? 

[Anon136]

Piratebay went down again. Were they seized again?  

The Pirate Bay is down at the moment, causing a mild panic among many BitTorrent users. With the raid of last December fresh in mind some fear the worst, but as of yet there is no indication that the site has been hit again.

It’s currently not clear what’s causing the problems. There might be a hardware issue, routing problem or a software glitch, issues that have occurred many times in the site’s history.

However, after the prolonged downtime earlier this year many people are now fearing the worst.

The site’s domain name is working properly and the nameservers appear to be setup correctly too, so those variables can be ruled out.

The Pirate Bay currently displays a CloudFlare error message suggesting that TPB’s servers are unresponsive.

TorrentFreak reached out to The Pirate Bay’s admin and we will update this article if we hear back.

While the main site is down, many of the Pirate Bay’s clones and copies that became popular during TPB’s recent seven week outage are still accessible.

Update: Pirate Bay’s .onion address still works (http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/). This means that the site is accessible over the Tor network, including the Pirate Browser.

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

[(oYo)]

kickass.to

Yep, it has reverted back to kickass.to

Kickass.so was seized by the .SO registry who also blacklisted the scam site kickasstorrents.so, which is not affiliated with the KAT team. It is likely that the registry acted following a complaint from copyright holders although this hasn’t been officially confirmed yet.

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

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.

[Anon136]

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)

[pedrog]

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.

[maku]

Now http://www.kickass.so/ is down. 

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...

[pedrog]

Now http://www.kickass.so/ is down. 

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...

[Anon136]

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.

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.

[pedrog]

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.

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

MPAA PULLS “POPCORN TIME” REPOSITORIES OFF GITHUB

LEAK EXPOSES HOLLYWOOD’S GLOBAL ANTI-PIRACY STRATEGY

[sidhujag]

We need a decentralized source system

[Anon136]

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.

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

MPAA PULLS “POPCORN TIME” REPOSITORIES OFF GITHUB

LEAK EXPOSES HOLLYWOOD’S GLOBAL ANTI-PIRACY STRATEGY

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.

[(oYo)]

Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the Secret TPP Deal

[juraj1301]

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

try piratebay.sl...maybe works

[1Referee]

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?

[pedrog]

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.

[patt0]

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?

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.

[chubiruba]

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?

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