Despite the closure of Kickass Torrents online, file sharers continue to keep their hope up that there are remaining working torrent sites that are still functional online.

Kickass Torrents, considered to be the most popular BitTorrent site worldwide, shut down on July 20 after its reported owner, Artem Vaulin, was arrested in Poland for four counts of piracy charges.

Aside from its kickasstorrents.com domain, the company's other domain names such as kat.ph, thekat.tv, kat.cr, kickass.to, and kastatic.com have been closed as well.

However, iTech Post reported that mirror site Katcr.to remains functional. According to the report, several users can attest that they have successfully used the site for downloading and sharing files. But there is no proof yet if Katcr.to realy belongs to Kickass Torrents, since it does not require users to input their credit card information unlike the other mirror sites that are known to be associated with the defunct website.

Meanwhile, TorrentFreak reported that the top torrent sites after Kickass Torrents benefitted from the closure of the world's biggest online file sharing venue.

According to the report, The Pirate Bay once again became the top torrent site worldwide, based on the number of users who visited the website after Kickass Torrents closed. The report said that TPB had an increase of 67% in terms of the numbers of its daily visitors.

Other torrent sites like ExtraTorrent managed to double their daily visitor numbers, since the site recorded a 101% increase. "We always think and dream of growing and we indeed plan to keep growing," an ExtraTorrent staffer named SaM told TorrentFreak. SaM also attributed the success of the site to all the members of the company.

Aside from The Pirate Bay and ExtraTorrent, file sharers can also use other alternative sites like dxtorrent.com, torrentdownloads.me, 1337x.to, kickasstorrentsas.com, kickass.cd, kickaddtorrentsan.com, katproxy.site, kickass.mx, isoHunt.to, Yify, EZTV, and kat.al to download files.