The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrent news: Pirate Bay heads back to original domain

 Wikimedia Commons/The Pirate Bay

Although authorities continue to wage war against piracy, torrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Kick Ass Torrents continue to have presence online. This has been going on for some time, but the download sites continue to get lucky.

According to Yibada, The Pirate Bay reverted to its original domain and website address. The website went down recently, and observers have noted that is is largely due to sheer volume of users (this occurred during the same period as the leak for "Game of Thrones" season 6 episode 5). It seems that there was an error in the hosting side of The Pirate Bay, and the website was down for at least five hours.

When The Pirate Bay went back up, it came back with its original website address and domain, thepiratebay.org.

Meanwhile, another popular download site, Kick Ass Torrents, got a reprieve from an Australian court against a piracy charge. The courts suspended hearing the recent case against Kick Ass Torrents, ostensibly while waiting for result from at least two other similar cases lodged against the torrent site.

This is a bit of good luck to both torrent sites, which already have had a string of setbacks. Being popular torrent download sites, both The Pirate Bay and Kick Ass Torrents are hounded by anti-piracy groups and industry labels bent on stopping their efforts. In Australia, both TPB and KAT were ordered to have halted their services because of lobbying from different music groups. The anti-piracy bloc include Warner Music Australia, Albert Music, and Sony Music Entertainment. Music royalty body APRA AMCOS also joined the petition to have the two websites blocked.

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