Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Unfortunately, it recently became known that popular torrent release group YIFY and its official YTS site have gone offline forever. It was just a couple weeks ago that the popular movie torrent website YTS became inaccessible. This outage raised concern among many users, partly due to the fact that the website belongs to movie release group YIFY, extremely popular among public BitTorrent service for many years.
Apparently, this reign has come to an end, as YIFY and YTS have shutdown permanently, according to a lot of information that has been made available over the past few days. It was confirmed that the entire operation has stopped, which means that no new official YIFY movie releases will ever appear online. At the same time, the operator of YTS/YIFY remains silent for the last two weeks, making no official announcement and providing no explanation.
The news is an important point for BitTorrent community, as YIFY first arrived on the scene 5 years ago and has shared over 6,000 releases since. Its website (YTS.to) also became very popular, accounting for about one million unique visitors per day, who generated 6 million pageviews according to TF.
Although this shutdown doesn’t mean that online piracy will end anytime soon, it marks one of the most significant changes to the BitTorrent scene in recent history, not least because YIFY releases were among the most-pirated movies all the time.
Two years ago, YIFY attributed this popularity to the presentation and consistency of its releases, saying that its secret was in everything from the consistent movie cover art to the information layout, and even to the file-size of the encodes. All these things were really important because people like stability and assurance with the content they get. By combining consistency with a reasonable file-size, the group has filled a spot in the community showing high demand.
The important moment is that YIFY also played a crucial role as the primary movie supplier for many Popcorn Time forks, so the industry experts are going to estimate the size of the shutdown fallout soon.
At the same time, many people are now being misled by fake YIFY websites, Facebook accounts and impostors who are trying to profit from the confusion.
Here at ET our own Release Group has always been available and delivering all what fans want from small size HDreleases to big size Bluray encodes in different popular formats thus our fans won't feel the loss as alternatives are always available for them..
Thanks to TorrentFreak for providing the source of the article.
Apparently, this reign has come to an end, as YIFY and YTS have shutdown permanently, according to a lot of information that has been made available over the past few days. It was confirmed that the entire operation has stopped, which means that no new official YIFY movie releases will ever appear online. At the same time, the operator of YTS/YIFY remains silent for the last two weeks, making no official announcement and providing no explanation.
The news is an important point for BitTorrent community, as YIFY first arrived on the scene 5 years ago and has shared over 6,000 releases since. Its website (YTS.to) also became very popular, accounting for about one million unique visitors per day, who generated 6 million pageviews according to TF.
Although this shutdown doesn’t mean that online piracy will end anytime soon, it marks one of the most significant changes to the BitTorrent scene in recent history, not least because YIFY releases were among the most-pirated movies all the time.
Two years ago, YIFY attributed this popularity to the presentation and consistency of its releases, saying that its secret was in everything from the consistent movie cover art to the information layout, and even to the file-size of the encodes. All these things were really important because people like stability and assurance with the content they get. By combining consistency with a reasonable file-size, the group has filled a spot in the community showing high demand.
The important moment is that YIFY also played a crucial role as the primary movie supplier for many Popcorn Time forks, so the industry experts are going to estimate the size of the shutdown fallout soon.
At the same time, many people are now being misled by fake YIFY websites, Facebook accounts and impostors who are trying to profit from the confusion.
Here at ET our own Release Group has always been available and delivering all what fans want from small size HDreleases to big size Bluray encodes in different popular formats thus our fans won't feel the loss as alternatives are always available for them..
Thanks to TorrentFreak for providing the source of the article.
