KickassTorrents

KickassTorrents, or abbreviated as KAT, was founded. The service provides a directory for torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer (P2P) using BitTorrent protocol. In its initial launch, the site used the domain name kickasstorrents.com.

During its operation, the service changes many domains before growing up to become one of the largest torrent site on the internet. With the many categories available to be peered, many copyrighted materials were distributed among its millions of users that visited the site per day.