In 2014, the founders of the popular Pirate Bay torrent site were also rounded up and the site struggled to stay online as it was raided several times.Īs for, the site managed to stay in the game a little longer because it didn't host torrent links directly - only made it easier to find them elsewhere. Vaulin is accused of illegally reproducing and distributing more than $1 billion worth of pirated media. The proprietor of KickAssTorrents, 30-year-old Ukrainian Artem Vaulin was arrested in Poland and charged with criminal copyright infringement and money laundering. The end of Torrentz comes after the world's biggest torrent site KickAssTorrents was shut down by the feds in July. Farewell." A click on the search box currently re-directs to a pop-up ad from Alibaba.
According to a message on the site, which refers to itself in the past tense: "Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines. Popular Poland-based torrent meta-search site has removed its key functionality, effectively shutting down a major portal for finding pirated material on the web.
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