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Viewing Torrent sites now Crime in India with 3-years Jail

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Torrent sites

Another bitter news for torrent lovers. Viewing and downloading pirated content from Torrent sites is now a big crime in India which leads to 3-years jail sentence and a fine of Rs. 4 Lakh.

Govt. of India banned many Torrent websites in recent years under the directives from the court. Until now, people who tried to browse blocked torrent sites encountered with “the URL has been blocked at the direction of DoT” message.

Now onwards the following message will appear on your screen.

“This URL has been blocked under the instructions of the Competent Government Authority or in compliance with the orders of a Court of competent jurisdiction. Viewing, downloading, exhibiting or duplicating an illicit copy of the contents under this URL is punishable as an offence under the laws of India, including but not limited to under Sections 63, 63-A, 65 and 65-A of the Copyright Act, 1957 which prescribe imprisonment for 3 years and also fine of upto Rs. 3,00,000/-. Any person aggrieved by any such blocking of this URL may contact at urlblock@tatacommunications.com who will, within 48 hours, provide you the details of relevant proceedings under which you can approach the relevant High Court or Authority for redressal of your grievance”

Most of the times Internet Service Providers (ISP) implement a DNS-filtering technique to block illegal websites. But people have plenty of other options to bypass those DNS-filters such as using proxy servers etc., ISPs and Govt. taking more robust measures to stop those alternatives to combat piracy.

This KickassTorrents clone seems to be scam

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KickassTorrents clone

KickassTorrents got few clones after it suspended, a month back. Because there is no trusted source available for pirates,  iIt seems this is a hard time for those people who search for torrents regularly. 

Almost 15 days back, the famous Kickass clone KAT.am taken down after the Motion Picture Association (MPA) complaints against the clone on piracy content. It looks like the domain is registered again with another spammer right now.  The present KAT.am site is not serving any torrents; instead, it is asking financial information to download torrents.

When you tries to download torrents from the KAT.am, the site pop ups a message saying, “Free Account Required.”. Once you click the button, it requests your credit card information. Original Kickass Torrents site never asked this information from the visitors. So be careful before entering your card details.

The statistics it is displaying on the torrent download page is completely fake. For example, see the above screenshot, it is highly impossible to have 13,500 seeders for a regional language movie, that is not that much popular movie.

Torrent sites across the globe facing serious copyright issues with the music, movie, and game industries. So we can’t predict which site available for a long period of time. It is better to purchase original content instead of depending on the pirated one.

 

Torrentz clone came back with all the torrents

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Torrentz clone

A few days back popular torrent search engine Torrentz.eu shuts down, today a perfect clone of it came into the limelight with the name Torrentz2.eu.

Torrentz crawls the all the torrents available on various torrent platforms and provides results to the users at a central location. The firm established in 2003 and taken the decision to shut down recently, after the KickassTorrents seizure.

We already reported that KickassTorrents clone also arrived. For any website database and the crawl script is crucial for smooth operation. The latest clone seems to get the complete database from the original Torrent search engine i.e. Torrentz.eu.

Right now the clone is fully functional and providing torrent search functionality in a perfect manner. But downloading from torrent sites is illegal and has to face a lot of security risks with malware. So it is better idea to stay away from the torrents.

KickAss torrent clone is ready

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KickAss

The popular torrentz site KickAss torrents (KAT) was taken down two days back. Apple and Facebook played a crucial role in this entire episode. United States Department of Justice seized the KAT.cr website and the website owner who’s online name is “tirm” arrested in Poland.

But another popular torrent website ISOHunt already came up with mirror for the KAT. As per the reports KickAss Torrents mirror already providing data since more than a year. The backed up links are still working but the forum facility where people exchange thoughts is missing in this clone.

ISO Hunt is active in supporting other torrent sites from a long time. Earlier when the Pirate Bay is suspended the same ISO Hunt created a mirror to the Pirate Bay site immediately. The newly created mirror site is almost identical to the original site.

The ISO Hunt site is also encouraging people who frequently look for pirated content to file a KickAss torrent support petition on Change.org website. The petition may not help the owner Artem Valulin (tirm) to survive from the cases filed against him, but it clearly indicates that there some strong voices supporting him.

If you are you pirated content supporter you can also join in the campaign by adding your views here, but you have to justify yourself before supporting illegal activities.