Kickass.MX — the clone site of Kickass Torrents in Mexico — has recently been shut down by Mexican Federal Police for copyright violations. However, it has been reported that Kickass still has another site running for file sharing.

According to Torrent Freak, Mexican authorities were tipped off about the copyright violations being committed by the site, which led to their shutdown of Kickass.MX.

On the other hand, Christian Times reports that it was the Center for Prevention of Electronic Crimes who conducted the cyber intelligence operation to track down the site and put it out of operation.

Aside from Kickass.Mx, it has been reported that authorities were able to take down another clone — kickass.com.mx —which surprised the operators as they reportedly used EasyDNS for domain registration. While the team tries to get back their domain and reach out to the Mexican authorities, Torrent Freak indicated that the team continues its file sharing activities with another clone site, Kickass.CD.

"We already have three more [top-level domains] and plan to set up mirror sites on them to increase resilience," a source told the site.

It can be recalled that Kickass Torrents — which has risen to fame as the top downloading site in the world — was shut down following the arrest of its owner Artem Vaulin.

Meanwhile, a clean version of The Pirate Bay has been created by a team of developers who refuse to work on sites with adult content. TPBClean is a version of the downloading site which has been scrubbed clean of adult entertainment content. The endeavor was spearheaded by developer MrClean who pooled the skills of developers who rejected working on sites that included adult material.

In related news, The Pirate Bay has become included in a list released by the site torrentsproxy.com, which releases updated information on working torrent proxies for some of the sites that have been taken down.