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Another Torrent site taken down

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Source: TorrentFreak

Popular torrent site ExtraTorrent has permanently shut down. The abrupt decision was announced a few minutes ago in a brief message posted on the site's homepage. This means that after the demise of KickassTorrents and Torrentz.eu, the torrent community must say farewell to another major player.

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In a surprise move, ExtraTorrent decided to shut down today, for good.
Users who access the site’s are welcomed by a short but clear message, indicating that the popular torrent index will not return (the message appears intermittently).
“ExtraTorrent has shut down permanently.”
“ExtraTorrent with all mirrors goes offline.. We permanently erase all data. Stay away from fake ExtraTorrent websites and clones. Thx to all ET supporters and torrent community. ET was a place to be….”
TorrentFreak reached out to ExtraTorrent operator SaM who confirmed that this is indeed the end of the road for the site.
“It’s time we say goodbye,” he said, without providing more details.

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With ExtraTorrent’s demise the BitTorrent community has lost yet another prominent player. Whether this also means the end of associated release groups, such as EtHDand ettv, remains to be seen.

ExtraTorrent was founded in November 2006, at a time when sites such as TorrentSpy and Mininova were dominating the landscape. Nonetheless, ExtraTorrent was determined to develop an audience of its own.

The site went on to outgrow many of its predecessors and with millions of daily visitors, ExtraTorrent ended up as the second largest torrent site, trailing only behind The Pirate Bay.

The site’s popularity placed it in the crosshairs of various entertainment industry groups in recent months. These outfits regularly pressured hosting companies and domain name services to take action.

It’s unclear whether legal pressure had anything to do with the decision to shut down, but that wouldn’t come as a surprise.

ExtraTorrent is the latest in a series of BitTorrent giants to fall in recent months. Previously, sites including , Torrentz.eu, and went offline.

Update: We were informed by SaM that ExtraTorrent’s release group ETRG is gone now.

“Ettv and Ethd could remain operational if they get enough donations to sustain the expenses and if they people handling it ready to keep going,” we were told.

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I really had no reason to use any other Torrent sites, I thought Piratebay was like the only Torrent site that always has the most updated uploads and etc.

Can I ask, what Torrent site do you use at the moment, if you don't mind of course.
 
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I used this one actually because PirateBay was not as updated and I got alot of DMCA notices from my internet provider because of it.
 
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I'm back to using KAT, I used this one due to their reliability and trust system..
 
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Oh snap! good to know lol even though I am not affected by the FBI (Canadian yay!)
 
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So what do we have now? Pirate bay is still out there, not sure how up to date it is though. Couldnt find richtorrents NoBrain do you mind sending a link through pm?
 
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Iv'e never used them personally. However i am not surprised as it kinda comes with the territory so to say lol.
 
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So what do we have now? Pirate bay is still out there, not sure how up to date it is though. Couldnt find richtorrents @NoBrain do you mind sending a link through pm?

PB is VERY outdated... Alot of the content makers have gone off to other websites or have given up..
 
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I used this one actually because PirateBay was not as updated and I got alot of DMCA notices from my internet provider because of it.

Just a quick FYI. I use to download all my torrents. Never got a DMCA once.
 
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