Popular pirate websites blacklisted the new YIFY (YTS) sites that emerged from the scene of the original group when the MPAA filed a lawsuit in New Zealand.
The YIFY team for those who do not know, had pirated movies through their YTS.to website, which stopped working as we have mentioned before.
The MPAA has managed to discover the true identity of the team leader, a young man living in the suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand. Of course, the MPAA immediately filed a lawsuit, but the two parties reached an agreement, and the site silently closed a few days later.
YIFY team's departure from the piracy scene left a big void that many set out to fill by using derivatives domains of the original group name. So within a short period of time they create fake websites that use the group's name and take advantage of the traffic that YIFY had, earning money from advertisements.
There are cases in which the users they fell into malware, not torrent files.
To date, the YTS.ag website is reported to be the most popular of these websites that mimic YIFY. But the pirate community does not seem to agree with the idea.
Major torrent sites such as: ExtraTorrent, Kickass Torrents, and RARBG, have officially announced their plans to block YTS.ag movie releases from their databases.
As TorrentFreak says, they do it for two reasons.
The first is out of respect for the original YIFY team (YTS), not letting them allow other teams to exploit the hard work their.
The second reason is a bit more complicated, but apparently the people behind YTS.ag are the same people who occupied the EZTV website by the real owner.
So now the big torrent sites seem to repay an old debt, making sure that the scammers that forced EZTV to close, will not benefit from closing the YIFY website.