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Bad Year For Piracy: 2016 Was The Year Torrent Giants Fell (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the struggle-continues dept.

From a report on TorrentFreak: 2016 has been a memorable year for torrent users but not in a good way. Over a period of just a few months, several of the largest torrent sites vanished from the scene. From KickassTorrents, through Torrentz to What.cd, several torrent giants have left the scene.Another notable website which vanished is TorrentHound. ThePirateBay is back, but is often facing issues. Not long ago, ExtraTorrent noted that it was on the receiving end of several DDoS attacks.

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  1. And yet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .. i still have no problem downloading whatever im looking for.

  2. Big names are big targets by jandrese · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This shouldn't really be a surprise. Once you're big enough you have a giant target painted on your back both from the rightsholders and from people with an axe to grind. In the past there was always a steady churn of sites, and I fully expect that to keep happening as the well known sites are attacked and brought down and the vacuum appears again for startups to fill until they themselves get too big.

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  3. Bad year for piracy? by Wowsers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or the title should read "Good year for the copyright cartel after buying off more politicians and judges with brown envelopes".

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