Third portal after Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu

Sep 18, 2016 21:45 GMT  ·  By

TorrentHound, one of the major torrenting destinations after the shutdown of Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu, has also decided to call it quits this week.

The site went offline on Thursday, in a similar manner as Torrentz.eu, by removing its content and only showing a static page.

This page read "Torrenthound.com - ca. 2007 to 2016" and included a list of alternative torrenting portals which it described as "not terrible." The site also linked to a viral video from 2010, depicting an old man screaming at mall employees after they decided to close a Toronto mall in the middle of the day.

Site closed down because of dwindling revenue

TorrentHound admins didn't provide any public explanation, but they returned an email to TorrentFreak over the weekend that read:

  It’s a combination of less traffic, less revenue and our bills piling up. Then add on constantly getting bugged by anti piracy agents, just wasn’t worth the headache anymore.  

TorrentHound was never as popular as other bigger names such as The Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents, Torrentz, or RARBG, but the site had a huge following.

According to Alexa traffic ranks, at the time it closed down, the site was in the top 3,500 sites on the Internet, and had previously peaked at around the 2,000s, which is not a bad position at all.

Who will follow?

In the last three months, a top torrents portal shut down every month. In July, Polish authorities arrested the owner of Kickass Torrents, who's now waiting for a court to decide on his extradition to the US.

The following month, Softpedia broke the story that Torrentz.eu decided to shut down overnight, with no explanation whatsoever, even to this day.

Now, in September, it was TorrentHound, and we're now left wondering which site is going to shut down in October.

With their arrest of the Kickass Torrents admin, the MPAA and US authorities have sent a clear signal to torrent portal admins across the world that they're not so untouchable as they think.

TorrentHound's current homepage
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