Vaulin was charged with money laundering and violations of several copyright laws. Two weeks ago, Artem Vaulin, a 30-year-old Ukrainian owner of Kickass Torrents, was detained in Poland after being charged with a four-count US criminal indictment which was followed by shutdown of the search engine. Torrentz2 (formerly known as Torrentz) is a torrent search engine that uses your search query to index torrents from over 90 torrent download sites. Instead, they see the following message: "Torrentz will always love you. Actually, the website deserves more than that but the main domain name was blocked and they had to operate under a new one. It drives more than 100k visitors per month. The site's user are no longer able to login either. Another mention worth torrent provider -Limetorrent has an easy to navigate interface with plenty of categories. "Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines," a text read while searching for content.
While the homepage is still active, Torrentz has completely disabled its search functionality and has similarly removed all torrent links. announced "farewell" to its millions of users after The Pirate Bay decided to cease its operation.įounded in 2003, Torrentz had millions of visitors per day the site grew out to become one of the most visited torrent sites.Īfter more than 13 years of service, the popular site announced its farewell just a few hours ago, that too without any warning, Next Web reported. It’s not really a factor,” he added.įlippy, the operator of Torrentz, has declined to speak about the closure of the search engine – both TorrentFreak and Wired both reached out – though the move is not thought to be due to legal reasons.Weeks after search engine Kickass Torrents was shut down following the arrest of alleged founder Artem Vaulin in Poland, another major player shut its portals on Friday, a media report said. “There isn’t a big traffic swing when sites like that go down. “The technical sophistication of someone who uses BitTorrent in modern times usually surpasses the ability to find by other means.” “The next site will pop up pretty quickly,” Dan Deeth, a spokesperson for Sandvine, a network equipment company that tracks BitTorrent traffic, told Wired. Already, reddit users have begun collating potential replacements. The death of Torrentz, though, is unlikely to make a dent in torrent traffic. Attempts to log-in yield the following message: “Torrentz will always love you. “Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines,” the site’s front page now reads. The site was founded in 2003, and offered links to torrents indexed on sites such as The Pirate Bay, KickassTorrents, which was recently seized by the US Government, and a plethora of popular BitTorrent sites. , the world’s largest torrent meta-search engine, has suddenly closed down.
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