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Imagine you are binge watching your favorite TV series that you downloaded from so called "illegal" torrent websites and suddenly you hear a knock on your door, and when you open it you find the cops pointing handcuffs on your face.

Well that may happen to you now, according to recent reports government of India is trying to ban illegal torrents in our country. Yes you read it right, complete torrent ban in India. Not only you won't be able to access the torrent websites but if somehow you tried and downloaded the pirated content then chances are you may face 3 years of jail and 3 Lakh rupees fine.   

According to recent report even visiting the torrent website can get you in trouble, although there is no confirmation on this news yet. Because torrent is just the file distribution system so visiting should not create any problems as long as you are using it for consuming goods that are in public domain.  

One of the main reason Indians download a lot of pirated materials from illegal torrent websites is the limitation of resources and of course our  censor board. I know we now have an option to use Netflix to stream our favorite tv shows, but, let's be honest the content on Netflix is so limited due to regional restrictions and watching Game Of Thrones on Star World  is just awful. Lets hope Netflix will come up with some solution soon. 

So beware next time when you use pirated torrent websites to download your favorite Movies, TV shows, Games or Books.

This article does not support the piracy or copyright infringement by any means.

Stay tuned for updates.  

Yesterday US Justice department arrested the founder of Kickass torrents and seized all domains related to the website. Artem Vaulin, also known as "trim" has been charged for running the world's biggest illegal file sharing website. According to reports the site has been distributed well over $1 billion copyrighted materials, including movies, TV shows, music, books, games and software.   

But like every other illegal torrent website, Kickass torrents is also back on. Someone has created a mirror website located at KAT.am. The creators also submitted an email to The Verge saying the site is hosted on multiple cloud servers to prevent the blockade and the hosting information is well hidden. The site will have complete torrent database of kickass torrent website and  the creators also improved the original Kickass torrents website by adding a mobile optimized version. 

Looks like no matter how hard the Justice Department tries it is impossible to completely remove the pirated websites from the internet, but the acts like this discourages the people who are running and maintaining those websites. 

Stay tuned for updates.

Source: The Verge  

This article does not support piracy /copyright infringement by any means.