Batu69 Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 For the fifth year in a row KickassTorrents is celebrating Happy Torrents Day by encouraging users to download and share as much as possible. The initiative is dedicated to "freedom of sharing" and the latest edition features various challenges and competitions. With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay. The site also has a very active community of torrent aficionados from all over the world. On March 30, staff and members come together to celebrate their beloved pastime on ‘Happy Torrents Day‘. “Five years ago we realized that what our users do on KickAssTorrents, what they believe in and enjoy, needed celebrating. A day to give back to them what they give to us,” KAT administrator Mr. Black tells TorrentFreak. “Every torrent community is different and individual in its own way but we all believe in freedom of sharing and of course share one of the most important things in common. Torrents.” Happy Torrents Day The event was initially started by KAT administrator Mr. Pink in 2011. It began as a small celebration, but over the years it has turned into a recurring tradition with many thousands of people participating. Last year more than 115,000 registered users checked in. The number of uploads also increased significantly on Happy Torrents Day, well above the 4,000 torrents that were added on an average day that year. This year, the KAT team hopes to break this record. “Torrents Day in 2015 took us to just short of 6,000 torrents uploaded… 5,775 to be exact. But due to the users we have gained and the services provided we are expecting to well exceed these numbers,” Mr. Black says. The KAT staff have put together an overview of the various challenges and events. For example, users can add their favorite song to the official soundtrack, or participate in the upload challenge. If everything goes according to plan Torrents Day 2016 is expected to drive a lot of traffic to the site and perhaps set several new records. Judging from the discussion already going on, there’s definitely plenty of interest for this young tradition. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted March 30, 2016 Administrator Share Posted March 30, 2016 Seems like a publicity method. ANW, I do not torrent much these days but recently, when I was trying to find things both on TPB and Kat, I was surprised to see that not only Kat's torrents had far more number of seeders, but it also had lots of variety of torrents and so did those torrents have lots of comments unlike almost none on TPB. There is a reason Kat has more users now than TPB and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted March 30, 2016 Share Posted March 30, 2016 If it's a publicity method, it's a rather positive one. I'm not a frequent torrent user but when I look for a torrent link, KickassTorrents is my first option. They caught my attention long time ago because, apart of having a good number of seeders, it's not as a tricky site as some others to get the proper torrent link. Some torent sites are absolutly disgusting in the way they try to trick users to get "downloaders", "direct downlads", advertising or redirect to links to any other page than those needed to get the .torrent file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0veR Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Kickass torrents are become shit after they started deleting torrents when they get reported for pirating. Anyone who still upload to this shit site should stop and dont waste your bandwith on this shit site! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 21 hours ago, DKT27 said: Seems like a publicity method. ANW, I do not torrent much these days but recently, when I was trying to find things both on TPB and Kat, I was surprised to see that not only Kat's torrents had far more number of seeders, but it also had lots of variety of torrents and so did those torrents have lots of comments unlike almost none on TPB. There is a reason Kat has more users now than TPB and others. What about Rarbg.to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 3, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 3, 2016 On 31/3/2016 at 9:23 PM, saeed_dc said: What about Rarbg.to? Quote “Your requested URL has been blocked as per the directions received from Department of Telecommunications, Government of India. Please contact administrator for more information.” Well, it's banned here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calguyhunk Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 Ah torrenting! I remember those good old days LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 4 hours ago, DKT27 said: Well, it's banned here. In India? oh I thought you mean the forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 3, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 3, 2016 21 minutes ago, saeed_dc said: In India? oh I thought you mean the forum Yes. Both. Nah, only in my country. Do not know the reason though. Probably banned some time ago but someone forgot to remove it. Some image sharing sites are banned too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sylence Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 2 hours ago, DKT27 said: Yes. Both. Nah, only in my country. Do not know the reason though. Probably banned some time ago but someone forgot to remove it. Some image sharing sites are banned too. Both? its banned in the forum too? maybe because they're posting lots of porn on rarbg.to. btw it's banned in Iran too as well as the main domain of kickass, just for the sexual contents shared there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 3, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 3, 2016 9 minutes ago, saeed_dc said: Both? its banned in the forum too? maybe because they're posting lots of porn on rarbg.to. btw it's banned in Iran too as well as the main domain of kickass, just for the sexual contents shared there No. Just joking. To say the truth, no site except hacking sites and NSFW sites are banned on nsane. Torrent and such sites are excluded from NSFW list as they contain other things too. Directly posting porn is banned though. Not really banned for porn, some movie maker may have gone to court and ban it. The problem is, all these site bans are banned in a big amount, together and have gag order in them, meaning, they never come out in open to why it happened. Right now surprisingly it's working for me, so I think it's a DNS block than anything else. Eitherway, come to think of it, some time ago, about a year or more, they banned good sites because of the direction of the court or something for child porn, but many good sites were mistakenly blacklisted, since then, that block might have been removed I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sylence Posted April 3, 2016 Share Posted April 3, 2016 1 hour ago, DKT27 said: No. Just joking. To say the truth, no site except hacking sites and NSFW sites are banned on nsane. Torrent and such sites are excluded from NSFW list as they contain other things too. Directly posting porn is banned though. Not really banned for porn, some movie maker may have gone to court and ban it. The problem is, all these site bans are banned in a big amount, together and have gag order in them, meaning, they never come out in open to why it happened. Right now surprisingly it's working for me, so I think it's a DNS block than anything else. Eitherway, come to think of it, some time ago, about a year or more, they banned good sites because of the direction of the court or something for child porn, but many good sites were mistakenly blacklisted, since then, that block might have been removed I think. I understand, that must be due to the place your servers are located. blocking them using only DNS is very basic and fortunately easy to bypass, unlike deep packet injection procedures. there can be 2 reasons why they blocked them in bulk, either someone or a group of people made a looong list of bad sites or it's dynamic, maybe based on the used keywords in the web pages? btw, when a webpage/domain you try to access is filtered on HTTP, can you bypass it when you change the address to HTTPS (providing that the web server supports HTTPS)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 5, 2016 Administrator Share Posted April 5, 2016 On 3/4/2016 at 2:45 PM, saeed_dc said: I understand, that must be due to the place your servers are located. blocking them using only DNS is very basic and fortunately easy to bypass, unlike deep packet injection procedures. there can be 2 reasons why they blocked them in bulk, either someone or a group of people made a looong list of bad sites or it's dynamic, maybe based on the used keywords in the web pages? btw, when a webpage/domain you try to access is filtered on HTTP, can you bypass it when you change the address to HTTPS (providing that the web server supports HTTPS)? I think a non-profit organization is taking care of the list. Submitting the list to the government to block child porn and such stuff. However, it seems they had added good sites in them too, which may contribute to it, though unintentionally or unknowingly, like, lets say file hosts. Even the top court wants government to do something about it. Reading that article, looks like they did lift the earlier ban. But somehow some are still not working, maybe ISP forgot about it. I actually cannot answer that question. Depends on the type of ban. DNS ban probably means you cannot get through it, some other might mean you can. Thing is, lot of good sites might not necessarily mean that they have HTTPs in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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