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On 9 December 2014, The Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish police, who seized servers, computers, and other equipment and resulted in EZTV going down. [7]By the 11th of December, EZTV was releasing torrents again although the main site was not yet accessible with the regular domain, however the site could be reached through eztv proxy sites.
Demonoid – Torrent [3] Internet Archive – A web archiving site; KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index [4] Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles [5] The Pirate Bay – A BitTorrent index [6] [7] Z-Library – Many instances exist [8]
Features. BitTorrent sites may operate a BitTorrent tracker and are often referred to as such. Operating a tracker should not be confused with hosting content. A directory allows users to browse the content available on a website based on various categories. A directory is also a site where users can find other websites.
As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others: [ 40][ 41]
YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent. YIFY releases were characterised through their small file size, which attracted many downloaders. The original YIFY/YTS website was shut down by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in 2015; however ...
Audio codecs. FLAC – Lossless codec developed by Xiph.Org Foundation. LAME – Lossy compression (MP3 format). TooLAME / TwoLAME – Lossy compression (MP2 format). Musepack – Lossy compression; based on MP2 format, with many improvements. Speex – Low bitrate compression, primarily voice; developed by Xiph.Org Foundation.
rutracker.org (torrents.ru until 2010) is the biggest Russian BitTorrent tracker. [1] As of November 2023, it has 14.4 million registered active users, 2.362 million torrents (2.336 million of them being active), and the total volume of all torrents is 5.3 Petabytes .
Torrentz was a Finland-based metasearch engine for BitTorrent, run by an individual known as Flippy [2] and founded on 24 July 2003. [3] It indexed torrents from various major torrent websites and offered compilations of various trackers per torrent that were not necessarily present in the default .torrent file, so that when a tracker was down, other trackers could do the work.