![]() The good news for piracy – and very bad news for copyright holders – is that EZTV was one of a number of services whose sole purpose was to upload pirated entertainment. The site still exists, but with new, untrusted operators who could be anyone from a group of Russian hackers to a copyright rights enforcement group posting bait files. ![]() EZTV returned weeks later, only to be compromised by a group of hackers who ultimately forced it to shut down for good Monday. Aside from regular domain changes and infrequent down time, EZTV operated largely in peace until it was one of the casualties of the police raid that knocked out the Pirate Bay, another legacy piracy site, in November 2014. It should be no surprise, then, that EZTV's disappearance is already being felt across the global piracy ecosystem, leaving users scouring the Web for a viable replacement.ĮZTV was founded by a group of unknown pirate administrators frustrated by the recurrent need to find a new site when a reliable one would be taken down, either voluntarily or by law enforcement. The site uploaded the TV files that were then aggregated by piracy behemoths like Kickass Torrents and the Pirate Bay. ![]() EZTV, the influential piracy site, walked the plank for the last time this week, 10 years after it began distributing torrent files of the most popular TV shows illegally.
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