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KickassTorrents (sometimes abbreviated KAT) is a website, founded in 2008, that provides torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. As of November 2014, KAT became the most visited torrent directory in the world according to the site's Alexa ranking.〔(Alexa Top 500 Global Sites ). Retrieved November 14, 2014〕 ==Blocking and censorship== KickassTorrents says that it complies with the DMCA and it removes infringing torrents reported by content owners.〔(KAT DMCA )〕 On 21 April 2011, KickassTorrents moved to the new domain name kat.ph after a series of domain name seizures by the United States Department of Justice against Demonoid and Torrentz. The site later moved to several different domains, which the operators plan to do every six months, including ka.tt, kickass.to, kickass.so, kickasstorrents.im and kat.cr.〔( KickassTorrents Moves to Isle of Man Domain Name ). TorrentFreak. Retrieved April 23, 2015.〕 On 28 February 2013, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom were ordered by the High Court in London to block access to KickassTorrents, along with two other torrent sites. Judge Richard Arnold ruled that the site's design contributed to copyright infringement. On 14 June 2013, the domain name was changed to kickass.to as a part of global maintenance. On 23 June 2013, KAT was delisted from Google at the request of the MPAA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=MPAA Kicks KickassTorrents Off Google With ‘Precision’ Takedown )〕 In late August 2013, KAT was blocked by Belgian ISPs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://tweakers.net/nieuws/90965/belgische-providers-blokkeren-meer-torrentsites.html )〕 In January 2014, several Irish ISPs started blocking KAT. In February 2014, Twitter started blocking links to KAT, however on 28 February 2014, KAT was unblocked on Twitter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Twitter Blocks Kickass.to Links, Says They're Unsafe )〕 In June 2014, KAT was blocked by Malaysian government as the access to that particular site has been denied under Section 263(2) Communications And Multimedia Act 1998 as it violates the Copyright Act 1987. In December 2014, the site moved to the Somali domain kickass.so. Reports stated that it was moved as a result of site's regular domain change.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KickassTorrent Moves Domain to Somalia )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KickassTorrents Moves to Kickass.so Domain Name )〕 On 9 February 2015, kickass.so was listed as "banned" on Whois, causing the site to go offline. Later that day, the site reverted to its former domain name kickass.to. On 14 February 2015, it was found that messages mentioning "kickass.to" were blocked on Steam chat, though "kickass.so" and other popular torrent websites were not blocked, only flagged as "potentially malicious". On 23 April 2015, the site moved to the Isle of Man domain kickasstorrents.im but was quickly taken down later that day and was moved to the domain name kat.cr. By July 2015, the site's current web address had been removed from Google Search's results. After the removal, a Google search for "kickass torrents" returns a top result pointing to a malicious site that has malware ads.〔Van der Sar, Ernesto (July 18, 2015). (KickassTorrents Disappears From Google After Penalty ). TorrentFreak. Retrieved 20 July 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KickassTorrents」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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