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Breaking PopcornTime.sh, considered by many to be the ‘official’ successor to the original Popcorn Time application, has serious domain issues. According to public records, its domain registrar has issued an order to its registry to deactivate its DNS access. Separately, an as-yet unconfirmed report suggests that an arrest in Tunisia may be connected to the […]
News The new Demonoid website, launched by staffers of the original community earlier this year, has moved to a new domain name. The site moved away from the .to domain name to avoid confusion with an obvious scam site. In addition, the operators believe that the Tonic registry isn’t as private as some think. For […]
Popular torrent site YTS has recently moved to a new domain name, using a Lithuanian top-level domain. The operators haven’t commented on their motivation, but it seems likely that a recent lawsuit several movie companies filed in the US played a role. With millions of visitors, YTS is the most-visited torrent site on the Internet, […]
Openload, one of the largest file-hosting sites on the Internet, has lost control over its main domain name. The Openload.co domain is been suspended, presumably by the registrar Tucows, and is currently marked with a serverHold status code. On top of that, Openload’s official status page is unreachable as well. With millions of regular visitors, […]
Namecheap has suspended the domain of file-hosting service Nofile.io. The suspension follows a few weeks after the RIAA targeted the site and it wouldn’t be a surprise if the music group’s inquiry directly or indirectly spurred the domain registrar into action. Nofile.io is a popular no-nonsense file-hosting service that’s been around for roughly two years. […]
A torrent site losing its domain over a single copyright complaint from Amazon seems an unlikely scenario. However, when one views the complaint as a trigger, one that’s able to set off a chain reaction at the domain’s registry, everything begins to fall into place. There are thousands of torrent and streaming sites on the […]
An IPTV provider offering thousands of movies and around 600 live TV channels has been shut down following action by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment. As One Step TV’s subscribers complain on the service’s Facebook page, its domain now redirects to ACE after being taken over by the MPAA. In 2015, the Alliance for […]
Millions of people use dedicated proxy sites to bypass pirate site blockades. “Unblocked” has grown to become a leader in this field, which has made the site a target in its own right. This has resulted in an ongoing game of cat-and-mouse that has led to dozens of forced domain name changes. The entertainment industries […]
Hollywood’s Motion Picture Association has a voluntary agreement with the Indian domain registry NIXI to suspend pirate sites that use false Whois data. This is seen as an effective anti-piracy tool on top of site blocking. In addition, rightsholders also praise India’s Cyber Digital Crime Unit, which helped to suspend more than 200 pirate domains. […]