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    YIFY/ YTS Shuts Down Forever – The End of a Piracy Icon

    Popular torrent release group YIFY and its official YTS website have shut down permanently, trusted sources have confirmed to TorrentFreak. The unexpected shutdown marks the end of an era that started at the turn of the decade. More information about the precise circumstances will become public in the near future.

    YTSTen days ago the popular movie torrent site YTS stopped working.

    The downtime raised concern among many BitTorrent users, not least because the site belongs to movie release group YIFY, which has dominated public BitTorrent sites for several years.

    Today we can report that this reign has come to an end. YIFY and YTS have shutdown permanently, as predicted earlier this week.

    A lot of information has been made available over the past several days and multiple sources have now confirmed that YTS and YIFY will not return. The entire operation has stopped which means that no new official YIFY movie releases will appear on any torrent site, anywhere.

    TF has received additional explanatory details from trusted sources, but we have been asked not to reveal all of the information just yet. However, our sources confirm without doubt that the shutdown is permanent.

    The operator of YTS/YIFY, meanwhile, remains silent.

    The news marks the end of a remarkable era. YIFY first arrived on the scene in 2010 and the group has shared over 6,000 movie releases since.

    The group’s website (YTS.to) also gained popularity in recent years. Earlier this year the operator informed TF that they had close to a million unique visitors per day, generating six million pageviews.

    The YTS/YIFY shutdown doesn’t mean that piracy will end anytime soon, but it’s one of the most significant changes to the landscape in recent history. YIFY releases were consistently among the most-pirated movies, week after week.

    In an interview in 2013, YIFY attributed this popularity to the presentation and consistency of its releases.

    “I personally think that many people are following and downloading YIFY encodes due to the consistency we offer in our releasing. Everything from the consistent film cover art, to the information layout, and ultimately to the file-size of our encodes,” YIFY said.

    “I believe this is important because people like stability and assurance with what they are downloading. By adding consistency to a reasonable file-size, we have filled a spot in the community, which seemingly has a lot of demand,” he added.

    YIFY also played a crucial part as the primary movie supplier for many Popcorn Time forks. The size of the shutdown fallout will become apparent during the weeks to come.

    Over the past several days many people have been misled by fake YIFY websites, Facebook accounts and impostors. These should not be trusted and are trying to profit from the confusion.

    To be continued.

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    This is all over reddit. Is YIFY an acronym? B/c honestly I've never even heard of it.

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    @chinski Its really surprising that you haven't heard of YIFY group. They are one of the finest encoders for movies, many users wait for days to get their release.

    Its really sad that they end up. Hope they return back though it doesn't seem so
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    Their encodes were below average and sometimes just crap with horrible audio so it is not really big deal to shut down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGM View Post
    @chinski Its really surprising that you haven't heard of YIFY group. They are one of the finest encoders for movies, many users wait for days to get their release.

    Its really sad that they end up. Hope they return back though it doesn't seem so
    Finest? Really?
    And people have to WAIT for DAYS?

    Actually, they use crap Handbrake and terrible audio as mentioned by @Blitz
    As soon as the scene releases are uploaded on trackers, YIFY get them and put them in handbrake and upload
    So YIFY was the first uploader to upload BRRip (720p & 1080p) of any new movie on BD!
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    i used alot of yify they dominated the public torrents scene, tbh alot of the files they posted were above average compared to their counterparts and releases were very fast, will be a shame to see them go but even more reason to hit the private trackers now
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    the fast release and availability of their torrent is what made them famous not the encode quality.
    I hated their quality but still in a sense this is a huge disaster for bittorrent community.
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    Indeed the point being it is bad news for our community.


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