yts YIFY / YTS MAY BE GONE FOR GOOD

[A.lemane]

YIFY / YTS MAY BE GONE FOR GOOD

• BY ERNESTO
• ON OCTOBER 26, 2015

After nearly a week of silence YTS is still offline, and associated movie release group YIFY hasn't put out any new films either. While many torrent sites regularly suffer downtime, the complete lack of communication suggests that YTS may not come back anytime soon.

In 2010 a fresh movie piracy brand started to conquer the Internet. Bypassing the so-called ‘Scene’, YIFY joined a new breed of release groups who publish their work directly to torrent sites.

In fact, YIFY, which later rebranded to YTS, started its own torrent website featuring high quality releases of the latest movies.

The group amassed a huge following and earlier this year its website generatedmillions of pageviews per day. A true success story without any significant setbacks, until last week, when the website started serving a blank page out of nowhere.

The sudden disappearance is very unusual because the website had never suffered more than a few hours of downtime before.

Over the past several days we have tried to gather more information on what happened. However, the emails we sent to the group’s operator remained unanswered. This is atypical as YTS was known to be very responsive.

The lack of communication wasn’t limited to our emails either. We spoke to several insiders and other torrent site admins who regularly chatted or mailed with YTS, but they haven’t heard anything since last week either.

So what happened?

At this point we can rule out that the site is facing a DDoS attack or mere technical difficulties. Several impostors started rumors on Reddit and elsewhere to this effect but the claims are clearly false.

The same is true for any site that claims to be YTS’s official reincarnation. The YTS servers haven’t been raided and the domain name is working fine as well, so something else is up.

Interestingly, YTS’s disappearance coincides with the trouble at the main Popcorn Time fork, which shut down last Friday after a troubling week. YTS worked with Popcorn Time in the past so perhaps there’s a link?

This theory can’t be substantiated either. All Popcorn Time developers we spoke with say they haven’t heard from the YTS operator either.

Despite the trouble “YIFY” remains one of the most searched-for terms on many torrent sites. Unsurprisingly, however, no new YIFY releases have come out since early last week, which is another hint that something’s not right. The entire YTS/YIFY operation has simply come to a halt.

For now we can only speculate as to what has happened, but based on our experience and the information we’ve gathered from various sources, it appears that YTS has deliberately gone dark.

It’s too early to draw any strong conclusions but it’s not looking good, and the chances are that YTS and YIFY may be gone for good. That would end a remarkable run for one of the greatest file-sharing icons of this decade.

Update: There are various fake Facebook pages claiming that the site is suffering from a DDoS attack. Again, these are just trying to monetize the downtime and should be ignored.

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[jtmulc]

They'd been releasing a lot of crappy movies lately. Some of it was your classic B-Movies, the "so bad it's good" flicks, while others were so mind bogglingly awful you wonder why they bothered to take the time to encode it.

No, YIFY's rips weren't the highest quality out there, but they were decent quality in a very small file size and always downloaded quickly. YIFY's library was immense, yet each movie had its own page containing synopses, ratings, links to subtitles, and more. It was an amazing piece of work and I hope it returns soon.

[Bausch]

I am saddened by this news, I hope they return back soon.

[hawk007]

One site is still available with updates:

http://yify-movie.com/recent/page/1/

[rudrax]

Please don't go. :(

[Dodel]

91.220.163.51 - Be back soon.

[steven36]

They'd been releasing a lot of crappy movies lately. Some of it was your classic B-Movies, the "so bad it's good" flicks, while others were so mind bogglingly awful you wonder why they bothered to take the time to encode it.

The reason they were releasing loads of crappy movies is because that’s what Hollywood mostly release . There are other encode groups who release movies small size like they did but YIFY was the only one who released most all movies . Crappy ones , Block Busters and Old ones what ever was new on bluray and the scene released they will be missed. Back before YIFY everyone downloaded aXXo . Groups come and go. ;)

[A.lemane]

for now use one of these

http://yify.tv/http://dayt.se/https://psarips.com/  x265 coded movies\serieshttp://encodex265.com/ same herehttp://www.mkvtube.com/ and hererapidmoviez.com

[Sylence]

Hope torrent sites like Rarbg.to - Kickass.to - Piratebay never disappear. they better move their servers to countries where some shitty laws don't apply.

[steven36]

Hope torrent sites like Rarbg.to - Kickass.to - Piratebay never disappear. they better move their servers to countries where some shitty laws don't apply.

These sites are not the backbone of p2p no way all are public sites that just re-upload , re-encode , retag stuff from private sites . theres many more sites out there than ever makes the news. And laws don’t stop no one from torrenting if they really want that’s why they keep closing down public sites and some private ones its a game of whack a mole. People that are smart don’t even need to use p2p they can just use J Downloader and IDM and get all the latest releases .

[Akaneharuka]

Anyone still remember aXXo ? ^_^

[Dodel]

Anyone still remember aXXo ? ^_^

Centropy if your talking history. ;)

[Sylence]

Hope torrent sites like Rarbg.to - Kickass.to - Piratebay never disappear. they better move their servers to countries where some shitty laws don't apply.

These sites are not the backbone of p2p no way all are public sites that just re-upload , re-encode , retag stuff from private sites . theres many more sites out there than ever makes the news. And laws don’t stop no one from torrenting if they really want that’s why they keep closing down public sites and some private ones its a game of whack a mole. People that are smart don’t even need to use p2p they can just use J Downloader and IDM and get all the latest releases .

What are some private non popular websites that are as good as those i mentioned above?

J downloader and IDM? they are for direct link downloads, not torrents. they don't even use torrent protocol.

[steven36]

Hope torrent sites like Rarbg.to - Kickass.to - Piratebay never disappear. they better move their servers to countries where some shitty laws don't apply.

These sites are not the backbone of p2p no way all are public sites that just re-upload , re-encode , retag stuff from private sites . theres many more sites out there than ever makes the news. And laws don’t stop no one from torrenting if they really want that’s why they keep closing down public sites and some private ones its a game of whack a mole. People that are smart don’t even need to use p2p they can just use J Downloader and IDM and get all the latest releases .

What are some private non popular websites that are as good as those i mentioned above?

J downloader and IDM? they are for direct link downloads, not torrents. they don't even use torrent protocol.

Most private sites are invite only so it don’t do me any good to name them you cant join them .. because I only use one of them that I join long ago out of all the public sites left only one left that post untouched Bluray is RARBG if you like to re-encode or make disc . They get all there stuff off private sites and retag it but stuff they re encode and private p2p and many encoders don’t like them.. most all private sites has untouched bluray , DVDR and scene rls they have all kinds of goodies. The way p2p works they use bots and grab stuff from one site and upload it to another. Private p2p have there own trackers and really what happens on public p2p don’t matter . AS far as the Web scene there are many encoders who use filehost and torrent and some that don’t use torrent at all and many uploaders who use filehost who have usenet and private p2p access as well as public .

[Jordan]

i'm a fan of hd movies & i downloaded hundereds of them from plenty of sites.

but i never liked YIFY's releases. poor quality & blockiness. Encoding parameters are not well set for max quality & less size.

a 720p movie of well known encoders with 700/800 mb size is better than the ones produced by YIFY with 1 gb or more size!

diffrence may be not visible on a computer monitor, but on big screens you will understand what i mean.

[HX1]

Hopefully this is not going to turn into a TPB Flame Comment Ware.. if it does I hope they close the thread...

I will say one thing here. as in all instances this applies..

Videos which are playable and downloadable online, as far as encoding is concerned.. are the way they are for several reasons..

Some videos which used to be 650 - 700 MB in size and 1.5 GB in size are usually encoded in a certain manner, and fit an individuals needs relative to several factors. One of which I will paint a picture.. Lets s ay you have a low end laptop ( as they used to be called ), and that laptop has a single core processor, with low end video chip processing.. say 64 MB.. no integration and low end RAM 512 MB - 2 GB.. along with that you have the cheapest DSL account possible allowing you maybe 1500 kbps on a good day...

A video of this size, encoded in this method ( while not theatre quality ) allows you to download the file within an hour or two.. AND is going to be able to be processed and played properly on a system of this kind. Therefore for those of in this world who cannot afford to buy DVD Movies.. or rent them online or those who do not have credit cards.. and cannot afford to upgrade ANYTHING.. nor even take the chance to try to get something better... It allows those people who are less fortunate to have something to watch and an avenue to do so.

This is a consideration of people in lesser developed countries and regions as well as those who simply cannot do this any other way. They have not been forgotten like many do become in so many ways due to advances... and changes in technology and delivery systems... They are also playable on many portable devices.

Take into consideration the learning curve as well, like may of us encoders also change what they are doin accordingly.. much effected by the same things as mentioned above and the work to do the encoding is still just as hard if not harder on their equipment.. and themselves as well.. to offer this option to so many people. This too is to be mentioned here.. that until about a year ago better written codecs ( which were available already in many of the players in which we used ) where still very CPU intensive.. this has changed.. So again we have a wall that we come too.

While many people own systems which are better capable of rendering movies which and can be up to 7 - 20 GB in size.. and playing them om their systems.. These people could probably afford to go and buy these movies in that quality anywhere. They can afford the huge processor and RAM as well as the graphics, rather it is on a laptop or desktop or whatever. These individuals can also buy services which have higher bandwidth usage caps ( which cost you even more when you go over ) and speeds to be able to commit to the downloads.

As time progresses we see changes in the codec code and in the quality of releases.. and we see applicable changes.. we also see changes in hardware and in the methods which are used to deliver them and their implicit cost, and collateral effect.

There are many people who are very thankful to these individuals for their work and for the service they provide which is not elsewhere on this planet.... and there will be many contributors along the way.. many who try and many change to improve their work. If we went backward to redo everything we have every done.. there would never be any forward progress.

Larger file size never really indicate better quality and there are a handful of entities out there who have it down and offer quality per size ratio at 9 or 10.. some of this can be a contributing factor from source files and even settings and issues with the used systems..( as well image size, aspect ratio, compression relative to processing.. raw data inclusion...etc.. ) The world is not a perfect place.

For what it is worth, the work of these people is something to be spoken for. To be ungrateful for what they have done for those who would not have it otherwise, really should not be relative to ones self.. To be demanding of more... and to lay these efforts to waste without considerations given to others means that you may simply need to pursue other means of obtaining your own ( through your available financial means or contribute yourself. )

There may be others who offer superior quality, larger files sizes or even the desired encoding or output.. but they have the means and the ones who use their files probably can.. through what they have themselves in which they should be grateful. Lets just not forget the rest of the world though and the fact the world relative to ourselves is not yet expansive enough to include considerations which we may have not calculated with factors we know nothing of...

There have been many people out there who bring entertainment and smiles to thousands who are less fortunate.