{"id":3369,"date":"2016-02-22T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2016-02-22T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:02:10","slug":"the-walking-dead-disappears-from-torrent-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead \u201cDisappears\u201d From Torrent Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"walkd\"Last week the The Walking Dead’s sixth season resumed. As the second most pirated TV-show<\/a> of last year, only trailing behind Game of Thrones, there has been plenty of interest in the new episodes on torrent sites. <\/p>\n

However, there’s also been quite a bit of confusion and annoyance as many popular torrents have quickly disappeared. <\/p>\n

Before the weekend pretty much all torrents for the ninth episode of The Walking Dead were gone from KickassTorrents (KAT<\/a>), which is currently the most used torrent site. <\/p>\n

The screenshot below shows that there’s currently just one torrent online for episode six through nine of the latest season. As far as DMCA takedown efforts go, that’s pretty effective. <\/p>\n

Gone?<\/strong>
<\/br>\"katwalk\"<\/p>\n

The same is true for the most used meta search engine Torrentz<\/a>, where several recent episodes are no longer listed. A search for s0608 comes up empty, with a note that 80 results have been removed due to takedown notices.<\/p>\n

Walking Dead?<\/strong>
<\/br>\"tzwalk\"<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead’s tenth episode of the season was just released a few hours ago and plenty of copies are still around, However, these torrents will soon follow their predecessors and disappear as well.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are also plenty of places that are less DMCA-friendly. Many torrent sites including The Pirate Bay are removing torrents sporadically, or not at all, so persistent pirates can find a copy eventually.<\/p>\n

That said, on KAT the aggressive takedown efforts are a cause of frustration. To counter this, users have come up with their own tricks to make the torrents available through backdoors, which are widely shared<\/a> in the forums. <\/p>\n

TorrentFreak spoke with an operator of a smaller torrent site who processes many takedown requests automatically, and he was surprised to see how effective they can be. So effective, that he had trouble locating a recent Walking Dead episode. <\/p>\n

“It was quite surprising not to find the episode I was looking for. For the first time in my life I had to actually use a file locker, not by choice but by the effectiveness of DMCA,” the operator says. <\/p>\n

“It literally made my life more annoying for about two minutes,” he adds.<\/p>\n

While many links are indeed disappearing, and not just for The Walking Dead, the torrent site owner doesn’t believe that it will do much to stop piracy on a broader scale.<\/p>\n

“The only thing the DMCA does well is annoy people. Well done DMCA,” the torrent site operator notes.<\/p>\n

Perhaps copyright holders are banking on this annoyance to drive people to legal alternatives. Or, ironically enough, to other sites that simply ignore all DMCA and other takedown notices.<\/p>\n

Source: TF<\/a>, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites<\/a> and ANONYMOUS VPN services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nSource: TorrentFreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week the The Walking Dead’s sixth season resumed. As the second most pirated TV-show of last year, only trailing behind Game of Thrones, there has been plenty of interest in the new episodes on torrent sites. However, there’s also been quite a bit of confusion and annoyance as many popular torrents have quickly disappeared. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}