While Zone-Directory has just changed its domain name to dodge complaints from rights holders and Google's delisting, another big name in illegal download sites could not escape it. The famous YggTorrent platform, which merged with the famous T411 site in 2017, has recently been the subject of new complaints from rights holders, pushing French ISPs to block access. For its part, under pressure from rights holders, Google also dereferenced the site in its search results.
Very popular with Internet users who love Torrent download links, YggTorrent is regularly the subject of complaints. Google also regularly removes it from its search engine under pressure from rights holders. This platform is based on the decentralized BitTorrent protocol. It serves primarily as a directory of Torrent links for illegally downloading copyrighted content.
Since the launch of the platform, Google has received more than a hundred complaints from rights holders demanding the de-listing of the site and its 658 variations - YggTorrent very often changes address and domain name - from its results. research. Requests that resulted in 99% of cases by the disappearance of problematic URLs in Google search results.
Limited scope
This administrative blockage operated by Internet service providers and the search engine is a victory for rights holders, but its scope is particularly limited. The Torrent link platform and its variations remain accessible via a VPN. There is also a good chance that YggTorrent administrators are already working on a solution by changing the domain name of their site or whatever.
At a time when legal solutions for watching films and series are multiplying, in particular via streaming platforms, the fight of rights holders against illegal downloading sites and other platforms facilitating the downloading of content protected by copyright doesn't seem to stop.
If YggTorrent is not strictly speaking the author of the links of illegal downloads, it collects and organizes them. In other words, it helps to facilitate access to these illegal links, which is obviously not very well perceived by rights holders.
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