KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#1

Post by noxin » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 12:29 PM UTC

KickassTorrents resurfaces online
theverge.com

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#2

Post by reubenmorais » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:21 PM UTC

Previous discussion on the arrest/takedown:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12132849

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12142532

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#3

Post by drops » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:22 PM UTC

Is there a possibility of someone actually making a stable, long-term KAT mirror / follow-up without getting busted like the original one?

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#4

Post by orionblastar » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:26 PM UTC

Beware when this happened to The Pirate Bay some clone sites were fake and served malware.

But some are legit as well and scraped the database and torrents in case it went down.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#5

Post by ktta » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:37 PM UTC

drops wrote: post #3

Is there a possibility of someone actually making a stable, long-term KAT mirror / follow-up without getting busted like the original one?

torproject.org

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#6

Post by speeder » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:37 PM UTC

The 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

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#7

Post by supergreg » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:40 PM UTC

> "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.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#8

Post by StavrosK » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:46 PM UTC

speeder wrote: post #6

The 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

> If they keep doing that, they will end with random dictators pulling a Turkey and demanding arrest of political opponents that live in USA

And they just won't comply, because the USA does whatever they want without much regard for laws.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#9

Post by whoopdedo » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:46 PM UTC

orionblastar wrote: post #4

Beware when this happened to The Pirate Bay some clone sites were fake and served malware. But some are legit as well and scraped the database and torrents in case it went down.

And an FBI honeypot mixed in there as well.

Re: KickassTorrents resurfaces online

#10

Post by nxzero » Fri, Jul 22, 2016, 1:48 PM UTC

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