The news agency also approached Bharti Airtel to know whether they have blocked any of the three websites, the telecom provider said in a statement it “supports an open internet” and does not block content unless directed by authorities. “A lot of these blocks are also happening in such a way that no notices are displayed,” Gupta said. “It’s not making any sense, what’s happening,” said Apar Gupta, executive director at the non-profit Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF). When The Indian Wire tried to access on Thursday a message read: “Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India.” However, Telegram and Reddit websites were available.
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Restrictions on “torrent sites” that offers free movie and music downloads are routine in India to prevent copyright infringement.īut in recent months, websites such as the discussion board Reddit, messaging service Telegram and comedy site College Humor have been blocked for intermittent periods, often for days and only in some regions, surprising internet users. This blockade raises some serious questions on the enforcement of net neutrality rules. Internet Groups advocating net neutrality say that websites such as discussion board Reddit, messaging service Telegram and comedy site College Humor were blocked for intermittent periods in some parts of India. In any case, former KAT users should be aware that not everything they see on the Internet is what they believe it is, but I guess that’s no surprise by now.Internet Service Providers(ISPs) are now blocking websites like Reddit and Telegram in India. With millions of estranged users it can be quite lucrative to “hijack” a popular brand such as KAT. The same happened when YIFY disappeared last year. These type of misleading claims are not new of course. It could be that they started out this way, but at the moment it’s little more than a dressed-up TPB mirror. With the above in mind it’s clear that the operators of the Kickass.mx and Kickass.cd mirrors are not being entirely truthful, as they are no longer relying on a database of KAT torrents as previously claimed. The screenshot below is taken from a Kickasstorrents mirror, which is a true mirror (but linked to scammers) and doesn’t have any recent torrents.
However, as far as we can see, all torrents on the site are being pulled from TPB, not KAT.įor comparison, a search for “TPB AFK” on a real KAT mirror shows a widget with movie details, which KAT had in place, as well as entirely different torrents uploaded by different users. Of course, there is no recent KAT content to mirror, so the site has to use an external source for these. Even the upload timestamps are exactly the same as on the KAT “mirror”.Īs if that’s not enough, the recent torrents listings also show the same torrents, uploaded by the same usernames. The same search on The Pirate Bay returns identical results, without exception. These are all torrents that were originally added years ago. Without exception, these return the exact same results in the same order, with the same numbers of seeds and peers.įor example, a search for “TPB AFK” returns 64 results on the Kickass.mx “mirror,” with the uploads from “SimonKlose” and MVGroup listed on top. This is best illustrated by comparing searches on both sites.
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Instead, the site is merely serving content from another well-known torrent site, The Pirate Bay. However, upon closer inspection is doesn’t even appear to be a mirror. Those who visit the site will notice that it does indeed look a lot like the original KAT site. However, at the time of writing, the site continues to operate from the kickass.cd and kickass.mx domain names. While the site has nothing to do with the original site, Hollywood was not happy, which resulted in a swift domain suspension. The site was featured in several news reports with some suggesting that it’s an official reincarnation of KAT. One of the most popular mirrors started as KAT.am.
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Soon after the official site went offline various mirrors and copies launched to take its place, attracting hundreds of thousands of users. Government, following the arrest of the site’s alleged owner. Last month KickassTorrents (KAT) was shut down by the U.S.
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