So far, the torrent users didn’t forget the incident of The Pirate Bay seizer, that some other nigh pop Torrent website, KickAss Torrents, has been kicked off past times the Somalian registry.
KickAss Torrent download website has lost access to its Kickass.so - the Somalian domain amongst millions of unique visitors per 24-hour interval as well as the nigh visited torrent website on the Internet. The domain is currently offline and, according to TorrentFreak, the Somalia based KickAss Torrent download domain was of late listed every bit "banned" past times the .so registry, forcing the site's operators to switch to some other domain.
Just similar The Pirate Bay, KickAss Torrents is likewise a well-known torrent download service that has oftentimes been criticized for providing slow access to pirated content, then it’s no surprise that the ban came next a electrical charge received past times Somalian authorities.
KickAss Torrents website stopped working simply about four am ET as well as is all the same offline as well as volition non survive returning. However, an option domain of KickAss Torrents, i.e. kickass.to, is already available on the Internet for users to access the contents hosted on Kickass Torrents.
This is for the 2nd fourth dimension a torrent website has been targeted past times the government. Late in conclusion year, The Pirate Bay — a widely pop file-sharing website predominantly used to part copyrighted cloth gratis of accuse — went nighttime from the Internet next a raid inwards Sweden.
The raid was inwards answer to a electrical charge from Swedish anti-piracy grouping Rights Alliance. The police pull raided The Pirate Bay's server room inwards Stockholm as well as seized several servers as well as other equipment. However, the infamous torrent download website The Pirate Bay (TPB) made a defiant furnish as well as finally came dorsum online in conclusion weekend.
And this time, it's KickAssTorrents website that is experiencing the same outage. It seems similar the globe of online piracy is on target past times the government, at to the lowest degree i out at the moment. Few hours ago, the Kickass.so domain condition listing was updated to a "banned" message every bit follows:
It probable appears that the Somalia .so domain registry acted next a electrical charge from copyright holders against the KickAss Torrents website, although at that spot is no such official confirmation yet.
However, few hours after the KickassTorrents aws down, the torrent download website moved its functioning to a novel domain, Kickass.to, elevate later on today.
