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.
KickassTorrents resurfaces online
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#22kat.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/popup spam = why would anyone run this out of goodness of his heart other than as a honeypot? no profit motive
It sounds someone's just serving up a scrape that was done before the original went down.
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#23> "hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare." Isn't Cloudflare an American company? I wouldn't trust them to hide that information from the American government.
Cloudflare also runs a MITM operation on TLS connections.
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#24Why 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.
Yeah, I think it's much more plausible that people wanna serve you a bunch of ads and/or steal your account info.
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#25> "hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare." Isn't Cloudflare an American company? I wouldn't trust them to hide that information from the American government.
Cloudflare also runs a MITM operation on TLS connections.
Not relevant for the this site because the didn't even turned on HTTPS.
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#26AWESOME!
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#27The old kat, that had nothing to do with USA, complied with dcma requests. Now that this obviously doesn't work, what prevents new kat to ignore them? Also, why USA can force random people from random countries that doesn'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
They almost certainly did business with with US based banks, which, given that at least one of the charges is money laundering, is likely to be enough.
Story: https://torrentfreak.com/can-kickasstorrents-make-a-comeback...
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#28Same story at TorrentFreak: https://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-mirrors-and-imposte...
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#29Kat.host
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#30> "hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent blockade, and the hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare." Isn't Cloudflare an American company? I wouldn't trust them to hide that information from the American government.
And for some strange reason ThePirateBay uses it.