Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed.
I’m SUPER curious of the story behind what happened. Did the uploader take it down? 1337? Why?
EDIT: The movie was Lady Ballers 2023 (wasn’t sure if I was allowed to say)
I did a little more research, and I think the copy the uploader put out was YTS but I don’t think they were affiliated with them. Maybe YTS told them to take it down? The movie is on their (YTS/YIFY’s) website.
1337x doesn’t allow YTS uploads after YTS disclosed user data when requested to do so by law enforcement. Torrentfreak has a more indepth articles on the subject.
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1337x doesn’t allow YTS uploads after YTS disclosed user data when requested to do so by law enforcement. Torrentfreak has a more indepth articles on the subject.
I see! Thank you for the info.
So the thousands of movies labelled YTS and YIFY aren’t actually YTS and YIFY?
If you sort by time, the last uploads are from 2020. Maybe they only remove new ones?