KickassTorrents resurfaces online • Hacker News Board

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by Meegul » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

ericjang wrote: post #37

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #35

I'm not a fan of US copyright law to say the least, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for these sites or their creators. Mostly they have derived multi-million dollar incomes from selling very shaddy adware or otherwise space for virus infested adds which they show to the users, 95% of who are there to download pirated content. This is probably an unpopular opinion here.

I downvoted you for saying "This is probably an unpopular opinion here". Your opinion is valid enough, no need to qualify it or generalize the moral values of the HN community.

Agreed. That's one of the things I love about HN in comparison with places like Reddit. The 'hivemind' is not nearly as strong here. There's certainly a general bias to what gets upvoted and what doesn't, but it's luckily not uncommon to see opposing opinions here. The empty echo-chamber that is Reddit gets tiring for someone who wants to actually think.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by uremog » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:08 PM UTC

throwaway160722 wrote: post #33

AnbeSivam wrote: post #13

> hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare's captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too. Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.

As a legally blind person it is impossible to prove me not being a robot by demonstrating the use of human-like visual capabilities. Other CAPTCHAs offer audio alternatives, but not reCAPTCHA. When I contacted Cloudflare's support about this, they first required me to associate a business account with my private request and then deflected from the accessibility of reCAPTCHA: > The issue you are experiencing is relate…

Does ADA mean that they can be sued over this? Or is that not how it works?

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by mountaineer22 » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:10 PM UTC

throwaway160722 wrote: post #33

AnbeSivam wrote: post #13

> hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare's captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too. Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.

As a legally blind person it is impossible to prove me not being a robot by demonstrating the use of human-like visual capabilities. Other CAPTCHAs offer audio alternatives, but not reCAPTCHA. When I contacted Cloudflare's support about this, they first required me to associate a business account with my private request and then deflected from the accessibility of reCAPTCHA: > The issue you are experiencing is relate…

Section 508 violation?

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by cinquemb » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:26 PM UTC

As corporate copyright laws converge to more global uniformity, we're only going to see more resilient and ephemeral networks and data stores, esp as the technical means to do such expands to more and more people.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by Zarel » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:29 PM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #30

supergreg wrote: post #7

> "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.

I'd guess they use it as a DDoS protection layer, and have more proxies behind them.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by anacrolix » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:33 PM UTC

zzzcpan wrote: post #18

michalskop wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to have that for a very long time. (CloudFlare became the company I hate most on the net.)

It's sad, such a nice company, but they somehow cannot stop pissing people off.

I'm still pissed about a terrible interviewing experience I had with them.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by daurnimator » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:34 PM UTC

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #35

I'm not a fan of US copyright law to say the least, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for these sites or their creators. Mostly they have derived multi-million dollar incomes from selling very shaddy adware or otherwise space for virus infested adds which they show to the users, 95% of who are there to download pirated content. This is probably an unpopular opinion here.

I recall seeing figures for other sites and they weren't making millions. Infact they were barely scraping by.

These sites seem to be run by idealistic individuals, rather than as a profit making enterprise.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by Fej » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:36 PM UTC

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #32

AnbeSivam wrote: post #13

> hosting information is well hidden behind Cloudflare Anyone facing issues with Cloudflare's captcha. Not just for this site, I have faced this issue with other sites too. Only around 50% of the time I am able to get past their captcha, most other times I just get frustrated and close the page.

Where are you from? I keep hearing that people get captchas but I wonder what triggers it. I have only seen it from a Russian hotel IP so far.

Tor especially.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by colejohnson66 » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

nxzero wrote: post #10

Any reason to believe this isn't a passive attack; aka: honeypot, watering-hole, etc.

Why would they need to do this for a honeypot? Visiting a torrent website is not illegal. You /can/ download Linux ISOs from them.

The government could just upload a torrent and watch the connected IP list. Actually, they don't even need to upload a torrent. Just get a torrent and see who you connect to. Anyone you connect to is uploading that content.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

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Post by rhino369 » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 6:43 PM UTC

daurnimator wrote: post #47

forgotpwtomain wrote: post #35

I'm not a fan of US copyright law to say the least, but it's hard to feel any sympathy for these sites or their creators. Mostly they have derived multi-million dollar incomes from selling very shaddy adware or otherwise space for virus infested adds which they show to the users, 95% of who are there to download pirated content. This is probably an unpopular opinion here.

I recall seeing figures for other sites and they weren't making millions. Infact they were barely scraping by. These sites seem to be run by idealistic individuals, rather than as a profit making enterprise.

I think that's true of smalltime private trackers, but kickass is huge. It has to be making a lot of money.