KickassTorrents resurfaces online

The old kat, that had nothing to do with USA, complied with dcma requests.<p>Now that this obviously doesn&#x27;t work, what prevents new kat to ignore them?<p>Also, why USA can force random people from random countries that doesn&#x27;t do business in USA to follow their laws? If they keep doing that, they will end with random dictators pulling a Turkey and demanding arrest of political opponents that live in USA

&gt; &quot;hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare.&quot;<p>Isn&#x27;t Cloudflare an American company? I wouldn&#x27;t trust them to hide that information from the American government.

This feels very similar to the war on drugs. Take down one site, two more appear the next day. Take down a domain name, it moves to another hours later. This will never stop.<p>Eventually, I predict there will be a decentralized torrent site. Using magnet links and just file names. Nothing hosted anywhere. More and more questionable VPNs will appear for people to use and hide with.<p>I&#x27;m not advocating for piracy, I&#x27;m just saying there will be no stopping it.

Previous discussion on the arrest&#x2F;takedown:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12132849" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12132849</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12142532" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12142532</a>

&gt; hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare<p>Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare&#x27;s captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too. Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.

Beware when this happened to The Pirate Bay some clone sites were fake and served malware.<p>But some are legit as well and scraped the database and torrents in case it went down.

Is there a possibility of someone actually making a stable, long-term KAT mirror &#x2F; follow-up without getting busted like the original one?

Same story at TorrentFreak: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;kickasstorrents-mirrors-and-imposters-spring-into-action-160722&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;torrentfreak.com&#x2F;kickasstorrents-mirrors-and-imposte...</a>

In a similar vein, I&#x27;ve seen a lot of push in some communities to move to a zeronet-based torrent site.

kat.am looks very dodgy, it goes out of its way to appear to be a full working site while in reality search is broken, and browsing past ~3rd page usually puts you back on the main. Then there is a distinct lack of advertising&#x2F;popup spam = why would anyone run this out of goodness of his heart other than as a honeypot?<p>no profit motive

I&#x27;m not a fan of US copyright law to say the least, but it&#x27;s hard to feel any sympathy for these sites or their creators. Mostly they have derived multi-million dollar incomes from selling very shaddy adware or otherwise space for virus infested adds which they show to the users, 95% of who are there to download pirated content. This is probably an unpopular opinion here.

Why do people assume these sites are honeypots? Would there be a point to the FBI operating a torrent site? I thought copyright violations were handled at the ISP level.

Any reason to believe this isn&#x27;t a passive attack; aka: honeypot, watering-hole, etc.

As corporate copyright laws converge to more global uniformity, we&#x27;re only going to see more resilient and ephemeral networks and data stores, esp as the technical means to do such expands to more and more people.

Does anyone know where to find a copy of the torrent DB? I think kat had copies on their app page, but the new mirrors omit this.

So, if you go on kat.am and search for something that isn&#x27;t there, you get a bunch of porn links.<p>Is that the intended behaviour?

Kat.host

AWESOME!

All of these are honeypots.