PH Government shuts down torrent site Kat.PH

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief June 14, 2013 · 1 min read

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Earlier this week, torrent site KAT.PH was inaccessible to visitors after the Philippine Government executed a take-down of the country-code top level domain (ccTLD).

KAT.PH (used to be kickasstorrents.com) hosts a torrent site for pirated movies, music, software and games.

Local domain registrar, dotPH, blocked access to the domain after it received a TRO from the RTC which was filed by the Intellectual Property Office.

The site is still accessible via other domain names it still maintains.

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87 Comments

dave · 13 years ago

haha.. cguro niminimize lng ng ating gobyerno ang mga iligal na site…sa katunayan masama ang mamerata dba?

kya saludo ako sa ating pamahalaan……

jayron · 13 years ago

Parang ang bobang si Loren Legarda (and all the morons who voted for her.) Sa dami ng problema ng Pilipinas inuna pang ipa shut down mga local porn sites. Like that’s gonna stop your typical horny teenager. duh?

Leonardo · 13 years ago

PH government or USA GOV ? its the usa that told the ph gov to take it down, ph have other things to worry about like poverty of the people… no a domain name. IT WAS THE UNITED STATES GOV

bonedaddy · 13 years ago

tama yan bro….

Jrd · 13 years ago

You can still access it via kickass.to

jml · 13 years ago

SALAMAT BRO!

Reilly Reverie · 13 years ago

Well, I still think na ang primary reason for this ay dahil sa dala ng kat ang TLD na “.ph”
It’s as if the web is saying that…

“Come to the Philippines, we’re a source of piracy”

Pa-good image lang.. Kaya parin naman ng kat na bumalik sa gameplay eh…

Churva · 13 years ago

Mister Blancaflor, Ser, Nag-college po ba kayo?
after nyong mag-enroll ng mga subjects sa college, saan kayo pumupunta para maging official yung enrollment nyo? Sa Registrar!

Ano ang gawa ng Registrar? Tagapag-lista ng mga enrolees ng eskwelahan!
Ngayon, pagka ba may ginawang kagaguhan yung estudyante, Yun bang Registrar ang babalikan mo? Ang sagot, nyo ay malamang, HINDE!

Alam nyo po bang ang dotPH ay isa lamang Registrar?
Opo isa syang registrar ng mga individuals or groups/companies/entities who wants to have an Online presence. Sa madaling salita, walang kinalaman ang dotPH domain sa mga activities ng nagpa-register ng domain sa kanila, in this case, yung Kat.Ph.

So, ngayon na alam nyo na kung ano ang Internet Domain Registrar, bakit naging respondent ang dotPH domains sa inyong kabobohan?

Dahil? Incompetent kayo! Hindi nyo alam ang ginagawa nyo!
Puro kayo Pa-BIBO! Mga BOBO at Tanga nman kayo!
Alam nyo ba kung anong mangyayari dyan sa ikakaso nyo sa dotPH domain registrar? Wala! kasi nde sila related or connected sa Kat.Ph na syang inaakusahan nyo na nag-infringe ng mga copyrights ng mga OPM songs.

At kung mamalasin kayo, babalikan pa kayo ng dotPH domains, dahil sa paninirang puri, public scandal and Libelous publicity ninyo!

Yu · 13 years ago

Dami mong alam, di ka naman marunong. Eh kaso mali Tatanga tanga ka rin naman.

Yuyo · 13 years ago

^ Squatter na Troll itong kurimaw na “Yu” na to sa taas ko malamang! sobrang vague ng comment sa post ni Churva eh.. wala nmang kwenta yung sinabi… Hahaha!

Burnneck · 13 years ago

Yu tama si churva sa mga pinagsasabi nya, meron laman at factfull. Tapos ang post mo pang bobo lang, mag aral ka muna ng DNS eto link sa wikipedia ng meron ka alam.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

PewpewOnYOU · 13 years ago

When you thought they couldn’t get any more dumber. LMAO. pathetic government is pathetic

Manuel · 13 years ago

baka mga isp satin nagpatanggal niyan dahil sobrang lakas magdownload ng mga pinoy.

liuyong · 13 years ago

It’s a nomar move,but it’s no meaning

Pinoyhater · 13 years ago

now i hate you PH!

Emmanus · 13 years ago

stupid government thinking they could put an end to kat. fail.

creator · 13 years ago

Seriously, if you are a content creator or a game publisher, you’ll definitely complain about piracy. You guys seem to enjoy piracy without realizing that you hurt those people who worked really hard just to get income on those things that they made. Pirates don’t give a damn about those hardworking people’s efforts.

Fucking pirates everywhere.

Ex-Alodian Knight · 13 years ago

This is somethin i have to agree on.

Jesus · 13 years ago

Sayang din ang domain name na yun.

meh · 13 years ago

Wonder how much the USA paid them to do so?

DIDO · 13 years ago

WE are from KAT a backup domain is online. Bookmark it http://kickass.to/browse/

http://kickass.to/browse/
http://kickass.to/browse/

Angcoolit · 13 years ago

Nakakatawa talaga pag may mga tanga na nagco-comment.
Hindi piracy ang issue dito… Domain name.
.PH (dot ph) belongs to the philippines and kat.ph was using it.
Basa-basa naman pag may time… Hindi yung salita ng salita eh mali naman!

abuzalzal · 13 years ago

Ikaw ang ENGOT. Domain name my A-S-S

The ISSUE has always been Piracy (always will). Matagal ng nasa watch-list ang KAT ng mga foreign authorities tingin mo ba that has nothing to do with it? Ignoramus in d haus

yify · 13 years ago

tanga din e, hindi naman isasara yan kung hindi pirated torrents nanjan, isp isp din pag my time

Mike · 13 years ago

piracy issues pero ang dami sa st francis square sa quiapo etc etc.. sa st. francis hinuhuli lng daw ung mga Pinoy Films. hehehe

Avalon · 13 years ago

You can see that people are angry because what used to be free to them are now harder to find. :p
Though I agree that there are more important things to do, I have to admit that; for one reason or another, majority of the sites content are illegal, thus making the site illegal.

Iyan Sommerset · 13 years ago

I dunno about that. Since we don’t have much of a hunting industry here, I’d say the majority of guns here are used to kill people. Doesn’t mean they should all be illegal.

Sex · 13 years ago

Like this ever stopped people from finding alternative sources, lol.

jrex · 13 years ago

they can’t stop this. they call it online piracy, we call it sharing. lol. quoted from my adv networking professor, ;)))

yify · 13 years ago

stupid government, they can’t shutdown people.

yify · 13 years ago

stupid government, they can’t shutdown people.

yify · 13 years ago

oops. na triple post, delete nlng ng iba :)

manaka_junpei · 13 years ago

SOPA’s PIPA ACTA ano pa kaya

abuzalzal · 13 years ago

hehe very impossible/unlikely kase na nag kusa ang Ph Gov’t para ma shut down ang KAT

It’s either some form of pressure or monetary reward that triggered it.

Universal Studios, SONY Entertainment, 20th Century Fox etc etc are hell-bent on shutting down P2P and file-hosting sites through SUHOL…No surprise here, everybody saw it coming anyways

epi cent · 13 years ago

minumura ang gobyerno dahil ginagawa ang trabaho? anyare sa pinas? nahihilo ako sa mga comment basta piracy ang topic…

someone · 13 years ago

The government isn’t trying to block the site. They just don’t want anyone using a dot ph domain for unethical purposes.

abuzalzal · 13 years ago

Thank God for the cloud hahahaha…Kickass.To na ngayon lol, parang nagba-bar hopping lang

Piracy is here to stay GREEDY M’f’ck’ers!!!

abuzalzal · 13 years ago

From a very reliable source….NASUHULAN ng American Film studios and Music corporations…tsk tsk tsk….Pinoy talaga madaling masilaw sa pera

arnold · 13 years ago

nako grabeng balita yan…..

KINGSL4YER · 13 years ago

TANGINANG GOBYERNO TO!

therealmaldito · 13 years ago

kickass.to

Reader · 13 years ago

Just do what PirateBay did: move to another TLD.

paulo · 13 years ago

Why are they even trying? they can’t stop online piracy. and they don’t have to. They just do it coz they can’t earn money from it. There are more important things to do than to try and fight online piracy. You can still access it at kickass.to