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Torrent site Kickass.so has domain banned
- martinko 12y agoSo what is current the most viable alternative?
- __xtrimsky 12y agoTPB is actually back
- walru 12y agoI think many people (rightly) believe TPB is a honeypot.
- tunula 12y agoAs a leecher, whether TPB is a honeypot is irrelevant to you. Any adversary can get the same magnets somewhere else and monitor the swarm for all of your IPs anyway. If TPB being a honeypot scares you about using it to find content, you shouldn't be using public torrents period.
- lowmagnet 12y agoOr private ones for that matter, since they collect some information from you to allow access.
- IgorPartola 12y agoWhat private torrents are a viable alternative?
- tomjen3 12y agoSign up for a VPN, should fix that easily enough.
- Flott 12y agoKA is back to the .to suffix. It's still online.
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- malux85 12y agoBig deal, as soon as their domain was seized (kickass.so), they switched back to their old domain, kickass.to
- ikeboy 12y agoAccording to http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-seizure-150209/ http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-se... the switch took some time, and kickass.to didn't resolve right away. They usually redirect all their old domain names to the current one, so they would need to change that, it didn't happen by itself.
- wut42 12y agoI've been using kickass.to since ages without any issues.
- pyre 12y agoSo, kickass.to didn't forward you to kickass.so prior to this incident?
- wut42 12y agoYes. I remember back when they switched from kat.ph — they said both domains would be available for use
- ikeboy 12y agokat.ph redirects to kickass.to now, and before both kat.ph and kickass.to redirected to kickass.so. They are both owned, but they all redirect to whatever is the main one at the time.
- radq 12y agoIt did not forward me at least.
- Karunamon 12y agoMaybe, eventually, someday, the copyright police will get it through their heads that these actions are ultimately fruitless, if not entirely self-defeating.
- wlesieutre 12y ago> the copyright police The people whose salaries are generated by not admitting their jobs are pointless?
- undersuit 12y agoNo, the copyright police are paid for by our taxes. The RIAA/MPAA doesn't do much more than lawyer work, for the real shit they make the FBI do it.
- lbotos 12y agoAs someone who 1) works in the web/software industry and 2) actually paid for Photoshop, how do you (the collective you) see this playing out? Will we have this cat and mouse game ad infinium?
- Phlarp 12y agoThis game is hardly cat and mouse. Pirate Bay went down and all the traffic went to Kickass, now Pirate Bay is back up and chugging before "they" can get Kickass down. I bet Kickass is back up before the next one goes down, seems a bit more like Road Runner and Wile E Coyote.
- rhino369 12y agoYes. The common sentiment from pirates is that they'll always been one step ahead and then you break up one site two take its place. Well that is sort of true. But that makes it harder to keep up with if you aren't tech savy / into the pirate scene. The media companies just don't another Napster situation where everyone and their mom knew how to get all the songs they wanted.
- agumonkey 12y agoHistorically, it seemed easier to set up a torrent website than seizing one. But if the authorities allow for faster take-downs I don't think mice will be able to reproduce.
- dshacker 12y agoI pay for photoshop now, but back when I was starting I couldn't afford it. I wouldn't be able to have a job now, if I hadn't had used photoshop in its trial edition. Not even their education pricing was affordable for a student.
- lettergram 12y agoWhen getting new software is as easy as finding a friend to hit "copy" > "paste", it will always be like this. Further, even when they make it difficult with keys and what not, there is almost always a way to break it. If that fails, there is always an alternative. If we look at morals... I always enjoyed the story in the bible where Jesus broke several loaves bread and a few fish and shared it with a massive crowd. No one cared about the poor fishermen or farmers. Why then is it morally objectionable to share software in the same manner? In other words, unless people fine it morally reprehensible we will always have something like this going on.
- 300bps 12y agoThe U.S. Government has to walk a tightrope of taking down enough sites via DNS seizures to appease their RIAA and MPAA masters while not taking down so many sites that people wise up and switch to an alternate DNS scheme like OpenNIC. http://www.opennicproject.org/ http://www.opennicproject.org/ EDIT Anyone that thinks the U.S. Government didn't pressure the various governments involved to do the actual takedowns is naive.
- icebraining 12y agoDNS is not exactly hard to censor; mandating the ISPs to drop requests for those "banned" domains doesn't seem particularly far-fetched.
- radisb 12y agoWhat does this have to do with ISPs? You mean mess with my dns query packets to my own DNS server that is NOT hosted by them?
- icebraining 12y agoYes, that's what I mean.
- radisb 12y agoWell in that case i ll tunnel my requests.
- icebraining 12y agoSure, you can even put the IPs on your hosts file. But 300bps was talking about the "people" in general switching to OpenNIC - and I think that it's unlikely enough that they'll do that, much less that they'll start tunneling their requests.
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- dshacker 12y agoHey everyone, apparently they only seized kickass.so, not kickass.to so you can browse torrents there anyway.
- aestetix 12y agoI put this entirely at the fault of the movie industry. I'm happy to pay a subscription fee for a reliable service that lets me stream movies/shows. The issue is, none exist. For example, Netflix used to have an amazing selection before (I imagine) various licensing issues effectively crippled them. With torrents, I'm able to find a vast selection of movies and shows that really aren't available anywhere else. Obscure cult classics, pre-Code movies, and so on. This really seems to be a power play by Hollywood executives that is more based in making profit for them than supporting creative artists. Edit: it's interesting to see this get downvoted. I'm curious what peoples reasonings for downvoting it is.
- longlivegnu 12y agoI'd also pay to be able to watch these offline and using FOSS software only. I really enjoyed netflix when I had it but I had to do some wonky work around to get it to work on Linux. Then eventually I got another Linux machine and didn't want to do the work around thus I stopped using it and eventually cancelled my subscription (thanks microsoft for helping me be more productive!).
- StavrosK 12y agoIt works fine on Chrome on Linux now.
- darylfritz 12y agoWhat does Microsoft have to do with Netflix?
- ryanlol 12y agoWhat a terribly worded and inaccurate title. The size was not seized, only the domain "kickass.so". The site has multiple (tens) of domains (that are still accessible) such as kat.ph.
- easytiger 12y agoYup. Can we have the title edited, it is completely wrong.
- StavrosK 12y agoThey all redirect to kickass.so for me, sadly.
- ctrl_freak 12y agoYour DNS is probably cached and hasn't updated yet.
- StavrosK 12y agoI don't think I ever looked up kat.ph, though, this is the first time I've heard of it. Not to mention that I rarely use torrent sites anyway... EDIT: Never mind, looks like there was a cached 301 redirect on kickass.to, which kat.ph points to. Clearing the cache worked.
- sctb 12y agoThanks, we updated the title.
- mike-cardwell 12y agoWould be nice if they got a .bit domain which couldn't be siezed. Or just set up a Tor hidden service.
- ccvannorman 12y agoI used kickass torrents to download Microsoft Windows 8 ISO (after legally buying it from Microsoft, MS did not have the ISO anywhere for me to download, and I needed it for a VM) Then yesterday I used kickass torrents to download Mac OS Mavericks, because Yosemite is a piece of shit but Apple doesn't make Mavericks available any more, and torrenting was the only way to downgrade my OS.
- mikeash 12y agoJust in case it comes up again, or the info helps anybody else: you can download old Mac OS X releases if you previously purchased from the App Store. They'll appear in the Purchased tab of the App Store, and you can download the installer from there. You can then dig into the installer and get at the .dmg. It's excessively dumb that Apple makes it this hard, but it can be done.
- ufo 12y agoIf you want the ISO just to make a VM, you might be able to get a fully legal one from the modern.ie website: https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools https://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools The VMs you get from there "self destruct" after a month or so but thats good enough for most testing purposes.
- larard 12y agoJust create the VM and clone it before you login for the first time, and use the clone. Never expires that way.
- cooper12 12y agoWhy don't we just pass around the IP address for cases like these? All it would take is a pastebin link with simple instructions to copy and paste the IP in. While yeah, most people will be scared by a big string of numbers at first, it shouldn't be too hard to explain that domain names are just shortcuts. Alternatively, the pastebin could include instructions for adding a rule in your hosts file for whatever domain you want to resolve to kickass.