Kickass Torrents Honors Its Name, Site Back Online

Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of the world’s largest torrent-sharing site, Kickass Torrents, was arrested Wednesday in Poland. In addition to charging him with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering, officials seized the site's domains.

However, as has been learned from the Pirate Bay experience, these bans don’t last long. On Friday, Kickass Torrents resurfaced on the world wide web via clone sites.

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So far, only a few clone sites (like http://kat.am) have appeared, but experience tells us many other will show up over the next few days. The creators of KAT.am told The Verge that their site is "hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare,” adding that they had also improved the original site by creating a mobile version of it.

Another major torrent-sharing website, IsoHunt, has also uploaded a mirror of the original Kickass Torrents site, although a few features are missing. Readers might remember IsoHunt from the Pirate Bay saga, as the site was also responsible for bringing the shut down site back to life.

Interestingly, the mirror http://kickasstorrents.website has published a manifesto asking for Vaulin’s freedom, classifying his arrest as “attack on freedom of rights of internet users globally.”

“In the world of regular terrorist attacks where global corporations are flooded with money while millions are dying of diseases and hunger, do you really think that torrents deserve so much attention? Do you really think this fight worth the money and resources spent on it? Do you really think it's the real issue to care of right now? We don’t! [emphasis omitted]” the manifesto concluded.

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