Nyaa Torrents
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Type of site | Torrent meta-search engine |
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Available in | English |
URL | www |
Registration | Optional |
Nyaa Torrents (named from the Japanese term for a cat's meow) was a BitTorrent website focused on East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean) media. It was one of the largest public anime-dedicated torrent indexes.
In 2011, some of the site users were targeted for digital piracy.[1] In 2014 the site was identified as a major digital piracy outlet by the Japanese government.[2] The site was a target of a large DDoS attack in early September 2014.[1][3]
On 1 May 2017, their .se domain name was deactivated by their registrar.
References
- ^ a b "Anime Distributor Launches Piracy Assault, Sues 1337 BitTorrent Users | TorrentFreak". torrentfreak.com. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
- ^ "Anti-Piracy Outfit Denies DDoS'ing Anime Sites | TorrentFreak". torrentfreak.com. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
- ^ "Nyaa Anime Torrents Still Down: File-Sharing Site Has Been Offline For 5 Days, But Japanese Government Isn't Likely The Culprit". idigitaltimes.com. Retrieved 2014-09-05.