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Movie Studios 'Take Down' Popular KAT Mirror
Following the shut down of KickassTorrents website -- after its alleged owner was arrested, Hollywood studios are playing the game of cat and mouse with pirates to put an absolute end to KickassTorrents. An anonymous reader writes: One of the most popular KAT mirrors has had its domain name taken down following pressure from the major Hollywood studios. The Armenian .AM registry was quick to disable the KAT.am domain, after it received a stark warning from the Motion Picture Association, representing Hollywood's major studios. This notice requires you to immediately (within 24 hours) take effective measures to end and prevent further copyright infringement. All opportunities provided by the website to download, stream or otherwise obtain access to the entertainment content should be disabled permanently," MPA's email reads.As TorrentFreak reports, the takedown of kat.am domain isn't the end of the website. The publication spoke to the operator of the website, and learned that they were "making continuous" attempts to bring the website back -- utilizing the channels available. Kat.am is down already, but kickass.cd and kickass.mx mirros have since cropped up. Slashdot understands that Kickass torrent community is now back in action again, on a whole new domain.
Is it futile? Because they play wak-a-mole, anyone with flexget or other automated scripts are down until they adjust to an appropriate mirror or alt service. The casual pirates (the billions downloading Game of Thrones) now also have to hunt through the hordes of scam/virus-bot mirrors until the field stabilizes again and a site with a good rep surfaces.... Of course then the mole gets whacked again. It's about breaking the stability and ease. If piracy isn't worth the headache of researching sites and clearing infections, then you just may pay for legal services. It's like prostitution. You will never stop it. But, by arresting all the clean ones less people will do it. No one want the crack whore. I'm not saying KAT was clean... But she was a prettier option then many others.
The problem is that they do not offer a more convenient alternative. You might remember how it is.
Even having to spend 2 days to find a new torrent source beats this.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If they put their money into making really good movies, instead of spending it playing whack-a-mole with torrent sites, maybe people would go to the movies again. The current method of remaking everything with ethnically diverse cast members is boring, as was the previous method of using 3 minutes of poorly written dialog masquerading as plot between CGI content segments.