steven36 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Popular torrent release group YIFY and its official YTS website have shut down permanently, trusted sources have confirmed to TorrentFreak. The unexpected shutdown marks the end of an era that started at the turn of the decade. More information about the precise circumstances will become public in the near future. Ten days ago the popular movie torrent site YTSThe downtime raised concern among many BitTorrent users, not least because the site belongs to movie release group YIFY, which has dominated public BitTorrent sites for several years.Today we can report that this reign has come to an end. YIFY and YTS have shutdown permanently, as predicted earlier this week.A lot of information has been made available over the past several days and multiple sources have now confirmed that YTS and YIFY will not return. The entire operation has stopped which means that no new official YIFY movie releases will appear on any torrent site, anywhere.TF has received additional explanatory details from trusted sources, but we have been asked not to reveal all of the information just yet. However, our sources confirm without doubt that the shutdown is permanent.The operator of YTS/YIFY, meanwhile, remains silent.The news marks the end of a remarkable era. YIFY first arrived on the scene in 2010 and the group has shared over 6,000 releases since.The group’s website (YTS.to) also gained popularity in recent years. Earlier this year the operator informed TF that they had close to a million unique visitors per day, generating six million pageviews.The YTS/YIFY shutdown doesn’t mean that piracy will end anytime soon, but it’s one of the most significant changes to the landscape in recent history. YIFY releases were consistently among the most-pirated movies, week after week.In an interview in 2013, YIFY attributed this popularity to the presentation and consistency of its releases.“I personally think that many people are following and downloading YIFY encodes due to the consistency we offer in our releasing. Everything from the consistent film cover art, to the information layout, and ultimately to the file-size of our encodes,” YIFY said.“I believe this is important because people like stability and assurance with what they are downloading. By adding consistency to a reasonable file-size, we have filled a spot in the community, which seemingly has a lot of demand,” he added.YIFY also played a crucial part as the primary movie supplier for many Popcorn Time forks. The size of the shutdown fallout will become apparent during the weeks to come.Over the past several days many people have been misled by fake YIFY websites, Facebook accounts and impostors. These should not be trusted and are trying to profit from the confusion.To be continued.Source: TF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bausch Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Sad day indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npo33770 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 This site, continues active:http://www.anonymz.com/?http://yify-movie.com/home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x3r0 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Actually, almost everyone can reencode easily (despite the need to download the source though). I use MediaCoder, and its setting is very easy to redistribute to others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batu69 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Time to move on to Seven Torrents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikig1itch Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 YIFI's picture quality was too low for my taste (prefer 4.36 gig blu-ray rips or larger & dts audio), but this is still a sad day for any torrent user out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exodius Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Noooooooooooooooooo... :nono: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy W Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 How sad!Anybody know of similar sites where one can download without registering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyon275 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flash48 Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Hopefully another group will fill this void soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonar Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 2 that i know of that's going (but i guess wont get updates from yify releases no more) :(http://yify.tv/http://yify-movie.comI guess all these stream sites will keep going but without updated yify releases Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schematic Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Good! Its should be a happy day.Stealing the rips from scene, and reencode to a crap quality. Thats what I call the sh*ty side of the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabotaSe Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Noooooooooooooooooo... :nono: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 lol, never download any single files from them :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 http://yifytorrents.net/http://yify.info/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahmad_Al_Hajaya Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 How sad!Anybody know of similar sites where one can download without registering?http://ganool.ag/https://psarips.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byntf Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 YIFI's picture quality was too low for my taste (prefer 4.36 gig blu-ray rips or larger & dts audio), but this is still a sad day for any torrent user out there.Any suggestions where to get fairly recent, main-stream movie releases in a good quality with decent speeds? I used to download an occassional movie (last year and earlier) from a couple of the "ganool" sites, but the few times I have checked them this year, the selection and video quality/resolutions have gone down a great deal. I prefer 1080p, but sometimes 720p is alright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zavana Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Any suggestions where to get fairly recent, main-stream releases in a good quality with decent speeds? I used to download an occassional movie (last year and earlier) from a couple of the "ganool" sites, but the few times I have checked them this year, the selection and video quality/resolutions have gone down a great deal. I prefer 1080p, but sometimes 720p is alright.https://rarbg.com/torrents.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byntf Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Any suggestions where to get fairly recent, main-stream releases in a good quality with decent speeds? I used to download an occassional movie (last year and earlier) from a couple of the "ganool" sites, but the few times I have checked them this year, the selection and video quality/resolutions have gone down a great deal. I prefer 1080p, but sometimes 720p is alright.https://rarbg.com/torrents.phpThanks for the suggestion, but for good reasons, I don't use torrents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsanelyi Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 How sad!Anybody know of similar sites where one can download without registering?ExtraTorrentKickass TorrentsTorrent Reactor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbleck Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 http://www.yify-torrent.org/ - up and running alternatives: http://www.shaanig.com/f30/ - brrip.x264.aac.mkv http://www.shaanig.com/f93/ - brrip.x265.aac.mkv http://x265mkv.com/ - brrip.x265.aac.mkv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Yall are all busted.. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrioNeXus Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 oh no plz no why why :mellow: :( :sadbye: (T~T) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wikig1itch Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 YIFI's picture quality was too low for my taste (prefer 4.36 gig blu-ray rips or larger & dts audio), but this is still a sad day for any torrent user out there.Any suggestions where to get fairly recent, main-stream movie releases in a good quality with decent speeds? I used to download an occassional movie (last year and earlier) from a couple of the "ganool" sites, but the few times I have checked them this year, the selection and video quality/resolutions have gone down a great deal. I prefer 1080p, but sometimes 720p is alright.I was going to recommended https://rarbgmirror.com, but I see I was beaten to it. Since you avoid using torrents I'm afraid I can't help you there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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