Batu69 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 As one of the most pirated TV-shows, The Walking Dead is downloaded by millions of people. However, finding a copy of the latest episode has become somewhat of an annoyance, as copyright holders are increasing their takedown efforts on popular torrent sites. Last week the The Walking Dead’s sixth season resumed. As the second most pirated TV-show of last year, only trailing behind Game of Thrones, there has been plenty of interest in the new episodes on torrent sites. However, there’s also been quite a bit of confusion and annoyance as many popular torrents have quickly disappeared. Before the weekend pretty much all torrents for the ninth episode of The Walking Dead were gone from KickassTorrents (KAT), which is currently the most used torrent site. The screenshot below shows that there’s currently just one torrent online for episode six through nine of the latest season. As far as DMCA takedown efforts go, that’s pretty effective. Gone? The same is true for the most used meta search engine Torrentz, where several recent episodes are no longer listed. A search for s0608 comes up empty, with a note that 80 results have been removed due to takedown notices. Walking Dead? The Walking Dead’s tenth episode of the season was just released a few hours ago and plenty of copies are still around, However, these torrents will soon follow their predecessors and disappear as well. Of course, there are also plenty of places that are less DMCA-friendly. Many torrent sites including The Pirate Bay are removing torrents sporadically, or not at all, so persistent pirates can find a copy eventually. That said, on KAT the aggressive takedown efforts are a cause of frustration. To counter this, users have come up with their own tricks to make the torrents available through backdoors, which are widely shared in the forums. TorrentFreak spoke with an operator of a smaller torrent site who processes many takedown requests automatically, and he was surprised to see how effective they can be. So effective, that he had trouble locating a recent Walking Dead episode. “It was quite surprising not to find the episode I was looking for. For the first time in my life I had to actually use a file locker, not by choice but by the effectiveness of DMCA,” the operator says. “It literally made my life more annoying for about two minutes,” he adds. While many links are indeed disappearing, and not just for The Walking Dead, the torrent site owner doesn’t believe that it will do much to stop piracy on a broader scale. “The only thing the DMCA does well is annoy people. Well done DMCA,” the torrent site operator notes. Perhaps copyright holders are banking on this annoyance to drive people to legal alternatives. Or, ironically enough, to other sites that simply ignore all DMCA and other takedown notices. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siddharta Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Very much alive in Extra Torrent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 I know I am in the minority but I hate that show. I wish it would disappear altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 12 minutes ago, Mantis said: I know I am in the minority but I hate that show. I wish it would disappear altogether. eaten by zombies walkers perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 If they follow DMCA its normal to be gone EP 8 came out 11/29/2015 the show just came back on for the 2nd half of the season last week . still plenty of sites have it though that dont do take downs . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyyahblah Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Don't be a peon and use newsgroups all the episodes are all there, just need to know how to look Zug-Zug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 2 minutes ago, heyyahblah said: Don't be a peon and use newsgroups all the episodes are all there, just need to know how to look Zug-Zug When theirs a will there's many ways, just people have become too depended on sites that work closely with Hollywood so they dont try too close them down and the next thing you know. Hollywood will be trying to close them down anyways .All there efforts will be in vain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VileTouch Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 it's ok dude, we've got you covered links died Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
948bennett Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 not that Ive ever watched it but its alive and kicking on the private tracker i use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardecl Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 Lucky you can get it in other places then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudboy Posted February 24, 2016 Share Posted February 24, 2016 Nearly 6,000 seeds at the place I looked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A.lemane Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 On 2/23/2016 at 5:17 PM, edwardecl said: Lucky you can get it in other places then. The Walking Dead 720-1080p x265 https://psarips.com/tv-show/the-walking-dead/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paft Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 Have the writers disappeared too. It's abysmal these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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