It looks like torrent site Kickass Torrents is yet to rise from its shutdown while The Pirate Bay is once again being targeted, but the file sharers are the ones on the receiving end.

KAT has been out for weeks now following the arrest of its alleged owner Artem Vaulin. There have been various attempts made to replicate the torrent hub, but they do not seem to last.

At the moment, the emergence of mirror sites continues, although they do not capture the same functionality as the original Kickass Torrents. Most of the copies would not even deliver efficient search response.

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay, which just celebrated its 13th year on the web in the midst of the downfall of its fellow torrent giants, remains afloat. However, there is a new threat to its users in Sweden – copyright trolling.

This is the same method that dealt with users of torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents in United States, Canada, and Europe. Sweden has always been impervious to it until now.

Although many of the piracy sites have fallen, file-sharing is the one thing that still lives. According to Torrent Freak, an organization by the name Spridningskollen (Distribution Check) has found a new way to deal with violators.

The group recently revealed German anti-piracy group Excipio has kept an eye on the file-sharing activities of The Pirate Bay and other torrent users in Sweden, all of whom can be tracked through their internet service providers.

"One can compare it to a speed camera. In the same way that a speed camera only records those who drive too fast, only those Internet users who share copyrighted material without permission are logged," Distribution Check spokesman Gordon Odenbark said.

Those who are caught file sharing will be fined for $233 per film. However, getting caught in the fall might cost more. Odenbark said that this amount will surely be increased in the months to come.

Distribution Check says that there's no use refusing to pay and take it to court, as the amount asked of them is lower than what file sharers have to shell out in Swedish courts.

"So you can consider it as a kind of settlement. If you pay the sum, rights holders will stop their demands and both parties can avoid a costly and time-consuming trial," the company stated.

The group also points out that they are also looking to educate individuals on file-sharing and how it manages the television, film and music industry.