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by musername 4043 days ago
eztv the site or the group? the site is just a front. It also ran zoink.it as torrent-file host, but files are spread on other hosts, as well. Hardly anyone relies on the site anyway. Not to mention, I suspect I once a got a virus from a shady advert on an affiliated tracker/torrent-host.

Now I wonder, is this the industry turning prevention up a notch since Netflix et al proved a viable modle, or an attempt to abuse the userbase with ads and drive-by downloads?