KickassTorrents: Best Mirrors and Alternatives
K ickassTorrents, often called simply KAT or Kickass or kick-ass, is one of the world’s most popular torrent meta search engines, dating to 2008 when it was launched at the domain name kickasstorrents.com. Today, the original domain name is no longer accessible, but KickassTorrents continues to live on at kickasstorrents.to and a number of alternative domains, the most important of which are introduced in this article. History of Kickass Torrents Like most torrent directories and search engines, KickassTorrents has always attracted unwanted attention from anti-piracy groups and law enforcement agencies. Despite complying with the DMCA, a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the original domain name of KickassTorrents was seized by the United States Department of Justice only three years after the site launched. What followed was a series of domain changes as KickassTorrent ...