KickassTorrents Domain Was Seized After Music Industry Complaint
The popular KickassTorrents disappeared from the Internet yesterday and rumor had it that the domain had been seized.
That seems to be the case as it has been confirmed that the domain name has been seized by the Philippine authorities, TorrentFreak reports.
The move seems to be a response to a complaint filed against the torrent site from local record labels who considered that KickassTorrents was causing “irreparable damages” to the music industry.
The Philippine Association of the Recording Industry and several individual labels have filed a complaint with local authorities and a court agreed to suspend the site’s domain, which caused the temporary absence from the Internet of one of the world’s largest torrent sites.
Some pressure from the United States could also be involved since the Office of the United States Trade Representative wrote in a recent report that it expects the Philippines to take important steps to address Internet piracy.
KickassTorrents has already moved to another domain where it continues business like any other day, namely Kickass.to, a domain that pertains to the Kingdom of Tonga, a state in the Pacific Ocean.
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