YIFY Torrents or YTS was a peer-to-peer release group known for distributing large numbers of movies as free downloads through BitTorrent. YIFY releases were characterised through their HD video quality in a small file size, which attracted many downloaders. The original YIFY/YTS website was shut down by the MPAA in 2015; however, numerous websites imitating the YIFY/YTS brand still receive a significant amount of traffic. 'YIFY' is derived from the name of the website's founder, Yiftach Swery.[1]
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YIFY Torrents was founded by Yiftach Swery in 2010, while he was studying computer science at University of Waikato.[2] Yiftach is an app developer, web developer and archery champion from Auckland, New Zealand.[3][4] In August 2011, the YIFY brand was gaining enough traffic to warrant the launch of an official YIFY Torrents Website, although it was eventually blocked by United Kingdom authorities. A backup website yify-torrents.im was launched for users to bypass this ban.[5]
The YIFY name continued to generate traction, to the point where in 2013, 'YIFY' was the most searched term on Kickass Torrents, along with other related search terms such as 'yify 720p', 'yify 2013' and 'yify 1080p'.[6] This popularity was maintained through to 2015, where it was once again the most searched term on BitTorrent websites.[7].
In January 2014, Yiftach announced that he was retiring from encoding and uploading, mentioning that it was 'time for a change' in his life. The website rebranded to YTS, and moved to a new domain name at YTS.RE. 'YTS' is an abbreviation of 'YIFY Torrent Solutions'.[8] Management was handed over to the existing team of staff members[9], and encoding was delegated to a new automated system nicknamed 'OTTO' which would handle future encodes and uploads.[10] YTS.RE owned a company based in the United Kingdom, officially incorporated on 5 February 2015[11], with Yiftach taking the role as a company 'programmer'. The company was officially dissolved in February 2016.[12] The website was reprogrammed at both the frontend and backend in February 2015, as part of a site overhaul to deal with increased traffic.[13] The domain name was suspended by the FRNIC registry in March 2015 as a result of legal pressure, and as a result, the website moved to a new domain YTS.TO by 20 March 2015.[14]
In October 2015, the YIFY website went down, with no word from any of the staff or those connected with the site, and no new YIFY releases. It was confirmed on October 30, 2015 that YIFY/YTS was shut down permanently.[15][16] The site was shut down due to a lawsuit coming from the MPAA.[17][18] They filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the website's operator, accusing him of 'facilitating and encouraging massive copyright infringement'. This news came as a surprise to some, such as a spokesman for the New Zealand Screen Association who would have expected the site to have been operating from Eastern Europe, the case with some other past websites.[19] Swery was able to settle out of court a month later, signing a non-disclosure agreement.[20] Yiftach did not resist legal action in any way, and co-operated with authorities as needed. In a 2016 Reddit AMA, Yiftach justified this saying that he never intended to 'put up a fight', and had frequently told himself “When someone asks you to stop properly, you stop”[21]
Legacy[edit]
Since its shutdown, the YIFY name has been used in numerous copycat websites, most notable being YTS.ag.[22] Some of them are claiming to be the 'new' YIFY, while various others simply use the name for purposes such as streaming sites and subtitle download repositories. There has been some backlash to YTS.ag specifically, which ranked very fast in top torrents sites worldwide. In response to that particular YIFY clone, ExtraTorrent and RARBG banned all releases from there.[23] Kickass Torrents allowed them under the condition that they were uploaded under a different name.[24]
In July 2016, the YIFY name made a cameo in season 2 of the television series Mr Robot, where the lead character Elliot is seen using the uTorrent client, and his Plex folder, filled with films from release groups such as RARBG and YIFY. When approached by TorrentFreak, Yiftach stated that he appreciated the 'bad ass' mention.[25]
Nowadays, YTS.ag has become one of the most-visited movies torrent site world-wide and has changed several domains, most probably to avoid ISP blocking. All other domains are redirecting to YTS.LT domain.[26]
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