To escape the blocking measures, YggTorrent changes its URL once again. A common practice for the one who presents himself as the first French-speaking BitTorrent tracker, as for other pirate torrent sites.
The period is hectic for lovers of pirated content! After the sudden disappearance of Zone-Telechargement and the surprise return of Tirexo, now PapaFlix (see our article), it is still a popular site that is being talked about on the Web, in this case YggTorrent. In fact, the one who presents himself as “the first French-speaking BitTorrent tracker” has once again changed his address, forcing his usual users to hunt for the URL to access it. A common practice for all these sites which are regularly the subject of legal proceedings and delisting measures in search engines and blocking by Internet service providers (ISPs). And for good reason: even if they don’t host any content per se, they offer links allowing you to download – and sometimes stream – movies, series, software, games, magazines or books for free. electronics. In short, to profit without paying from illegal copies of intellectual works protected by copyright, which the law prohibits – outside the very specific framework of private copying.
The case of BitTorrent trackers is even more “delicate” than that of direct download sites (Direct Download or DDL for short) such as Zone-Telechargement, Tirexo, PapaFlix, Wawacity, Extreme Download, Cpasmal and other Zone Annuaire. Because the links they offer do not refer to online storage sites: they are torrent links, which are used to share content with other users, according to a give-and-take principle. And it is precisely sharing that has earned many Internet users fire-Hadopi warnings, especially those who download Disney films, popular series or popular hits all day long… why many have since equipped themselves with VPNs, in order to escape the wrath of the authorities – in particular Hadopi, which merged at the beginning of the year with the CSA to become Arcomeven if the new institution is mainly concerned with IPTV piracy for the moment (see our article) – by changing its IP address so as not to be identified.
But the bulwark of the VPN, as effective as it is to escape radar, is not always enough to access BitTorrent trackers. Because many are directly blocked by ISPs, which modify their DNS accordingly. This is also one of the reasons mentioned by the administrators of YggTorrent when talking about censorship, and who do not hesitate to indicate the procedure to follow to change DNS… In their recent messages, they announce a change of domain (the extension that follows the name of the site in the URL), explain having been forced to “moving to Laos”. They even go so far as to list old domain names – and their redirects – so that their users don’t get lost on pale copies, as is often the case in this environment, when addresses change. Real customer service!
Because, and this is the other major concern of illegal download and streaming sites, usurpers and clones literally abound! Many counterfeiters – “pirates of pirates”… – take advantage of the popularity of certain sites to take over their name or even their graphic identity and attract curious people who are not used to it and therefore unable to distinguish “real” from “false” during their searches. on the Web. A distinction that is all the more difficult to make since the “original” sites regularly change addresses. And that, despite the lawsuits and the blocking measures, they are still very numerous. Thus, apart from YggTorrent, which is among the most popular trackers for French-speaking users, there is a jumble of the essential The Pirate Bay – still active –, RARBG, 1337x, LimeTorrents, TorrentDownloads, Torrentz2, Zooqle, YTS, EZTV, Oxtorrent, Zetorrents, Omgtorrent, Torrent9, Pcgamestorrents, GkTorrent or TorLock, to name only the best known. A real jungle in which you have to learn to find yourself constantly. Not to mention the associated modalities (use of a VPN, change of DNS, configuration of BitTorrent software such as qBittorrent, opening of certain ports, etc.). We understand why this kind of practice remains reserved for an “informed public”…