{"id":192048,"date":"2016-12-17T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T06:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=192048"},"modified":"2016-12-17T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T06:27:14","slug":"kickasstorrents-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/192048-kickasstorrents-is-back.html","title":{"rendered":"KickassTorrents is back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff members of KickassTorrents have relaunched the torrent section of the site at Katcr.co, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/kickasstorrents-brought-back-to-life-by-original-staffers-161216\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The relaunch comes after the alleged founder of KickassTorrents, Artem Vaulin, was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/172816-this-is-how-the-founder-of-kickasstorrents-got-nailed.html\">arrested in Poland<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/191430-alleged-kickasstorrents-owner-transferred-to-hospital.html\">Vaulin\u00a0is fighting extradition<\/a><\/strong> to the US to face charges of copyright infringement and conspiracy to commit money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Following his arrest, the site was shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Staff members then launched a forum at Katcr.co\u00a0to provide a new home for KickassTorrents and said they were working on restoring the torrent functionality of the site.<\/p>\n<p>Since the torrent search engine of KickassTorrents was relaunched, the site has come under attack.<\/p>\n<p>Staff told TorrentFreak the &#8220;enthusiasm of returning users&#8221; had caused an influx of traffic, but a notice posted on the site states it has been attacked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Servers load have been affected, there are other few sources of this issue, it&#8217;s not just one.<\/p>\n<p>We are working on fix this as soon as possible .. one thing is for sure, we are not going anywhere, even as much these behind this acts want us to.<\/p>\n<p>Cowards always choose the shadows to commit their acts, and I do personally hope they know how to pray, they will need it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/175695-kickasstorrents-asking-for-donations-to-rebuild-the-site.html\">KickassTorrents asking for donations to rebuild the site<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff members of the original KickassTorrents have relaunched the site, but are already under attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[24440],"class_list":["post-192048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-kickass-torrents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192060,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192048\/revisions\/192060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}