Why Is torrentz.eu shutdown?

What is torrentz?

Torrentz is a merasearch engine which means it searches other search engines.
It hashes the new torrents in different selected torrent websites with their Name, Size, Peers, Seeds, Upload time and all. When you search for the file, it shows all the about data and the link to the torrent page in a particular site.

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Within a month after the arrest of the owner of kickass owner torrentz.eu is also closed.
Visitors who came to Torrentz.eu website were greeted by the message that states “Torrentz was a free, fast and powerful meta-search engine combining results from dozens of search engines”.
When the tried to search for content on the website, they were greeted by the following message “Torrentz will always love you. Farewell.” appeared.

Backup domains also fell short to continue its legacy
This includes the main .EU domain and its backups .ME, .CH, and .IN
The site was launched by a guy named Flippy in July 2003.The site's purpose was to index torrents from several large portals like limetorrents,kickass,piratebay and several others.This madeTorrentz.eu one of the best places for torrentors as they got everything under one shed.
The love of the people took the website to great heights and before the shutdown of the website it was on a respectable alexa rank of #186

          The reason for shutdown

While the reason is a common one which is the legal processes being forced on fellow sites like piratebay,yify and kickass due to which the owners are shutting down the websites on their own .

Also there Were many regulations being forced on these torrent websites world wide and a good amount of money has been incurred in to all this because of the loss all have suffered.
This is a big blow to millions of people who use to browse movies, music, and other stuff from the search engine


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