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Nyaa Torrents

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Nyaa Torrents
Nyaa homepage as of January 23, 2023
Type of site
Torrent meta-search engine
Available inEnglish
URLnyaa.si
RegistrationOptional (currently closed)
Launched2005;19 years ago(2005)
Current statusOnline
Part ofa serieson
File sharing
Technologies
Video on demand sites
BitTorrent sites
Academic/scholarly
File sharing networks
P2P clients
Streaming programs
Anonymous file sharing
Development and societal aspects
By country or region
Comparisons

Nyaa Torrents(named for theJapanese onomatopoeiafor a cat's meow) is aBitTorrentwebsite focused onEast Asian(Japanese, Chinese, and Korean) media. It is one of the largest publicanime-dedicatedtorrent indexes.[1][2][3]

History

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In 2011, some users of the site were sued forcopyright infringement.[4]The site was a target of a largeDDoSattack in early September 2014.[5][6][7]

On 1 May 2017, their.se,.eu,and.orgdomain names were deactivated, with the site's moderators later confirming that the owner took it down voluntarily.[8][9][10]In the following weeks, severalforks,partially based on Nyaa code and database of torrents, were started, each using "nyaa" in its name.[11]

In the official FAQ posted by the community that surrounded Nyaa, it is said that some data between 2016 and May 2017 was lost, and there was not a reputable backup of the Nyaa database for that time period.[12]

In June 2017,TorrentFreakreported that Germany-based Goodlabs put up a fake version of the.eu site in an attempt to get users to download a "free binary client".[13]

In April 2018,Cloudflareterminated its services to Nyaa. According to Cloudflare, "The pirate site tried to interfere with and thwart the operation of the company's abuse reporting systems."[14]

In 2020 the site was blocked in India, along with other pirate streaming and torrent websites, after a decision by theDelhi High Courtin favour of the plaintiff,Disney India.The court order provided for "dynamic" blocking meaning that Disney could ask for further bans on websites violating copyrights other than the ones in the order.[15]

In June 2021,Verizon Fiosblocked the website.[16]

In an effort to provide security and to help users access the site, Nyaa released an announcement with recommendations on how to unblock their website. The announcement also warns users against the use of proxy sites, as they can potentially steal information or serve malware.[17]

Website

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The site hasvideo sourcerules, for example, DVD video is limited to a resolution of 1024x576, while UHD is limited to resolutions upwards of 3840×2160.[18]This is for maintaining the original quality of the video.

Users cannot add watermarks, orlower the qualityto a worsevideo codec."Shitposting"consistently may result in a ban. Content restrictions include having only content from China, Japan, and Korea.[18]

Categories

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Categories are split into Anime, Audio, Literature, Live Action, Pictures, and Software. Each have their own subcategories, for example Audio is split inlosslessandlossy.

Users can also use Filters, which filter out the torrents to no remakes and trusted (uploaders) only.

Entries

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Uploads are split into green, red, orange, and grey entries. Green entries are torrents uploaded by trusted users. Red entries (remake) are torrents that match any of the following:

  • Reencodeof an original release.
  • Remux of another uploader's original release for hardsubbing or fi xing purposes.
  • Reupload of an original release using non-original file names.
  • Reupload of an original release with missing or unrelated additional files.

Orange entries are batches of an entire series, and grey entries are hidden torrents.[19]

See also

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References

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  1. ^Singh, Rana Iqbal (2016-07-30)."KickAss Proxy 2016: Think Twice Before Considering These Alternative Sites".thebitbag.Archived fromthe originalon 2017-08-16.Retrieved2017-05-16.
  2. ^Van der Sar, Ernesto (2017-01-07)."Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites of 2017".TorrentFreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-04-07.Retrieved2017-06-16.
  3. ^Choi, Brian."Best Korean Torrents".torrentsinfo.Retrieved2024-01-10.
  4. ^Van der Sar, Ernesto (2011-01-26)."Anime Distributor Launches Piracy Assault, Sues 1337 BitTorrent Users".TorrentFreak.torrentfreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2020-11-27.Retrieved2014-09-05.... The complaint specifically mentions the BitTorrent sites isohunt, kickasstorrents and nyaatorrents.org as potentially playing a role in the sharing process....
  5. ^Harbison, Cammy."Nyaa Anime Torrents Still Down: File-Sharing Site Has Been Offline For 5 Days, But Japanese Government Isn't Likely The Culprit".iDigitalTimes.idigitaltimes.Retrieved2014-09-05.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^Maxwell, Andy (September 4, 2014)."Anti-Piracy Outfit Denies DDoS'ing Anime Sites".torrentfreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2023-02-01.Retrieved2024-01-10.
  7. ^Maxwell, Andy."Anti-Piracy Outfit Denies DDoS'ing Anime Sites * TorrentFreak".torrentfreak.Retrieved2024-01-10.
  8. ^Van der Sar, Ernesto (2017-05-02)."Anime Torrent Site NYAA Goes Down After Domain Name Deactivation".TorrentFreak.torrentfreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2017-05-02.Retrieved2017-05-02.
  9. ^"Major anime torrenting site 'NYAA' goes offline".technology.inquirer.net.2017-05-04.Archivedfrom the original on 2017-05-04.Retrieved2017-06-16.
  10. ^"Spread the word: Nyaa is down, use magnet links » HorribleSubs".horriblesubs.info.2017-05-01. Archived fromthe originalon 2019-03-29.Retrieved2017-06-16.
  11. ^"Nyaa Anime Torrents".torrents.me.2017. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-06-09.
  12. ^"NYAAPOCALYPSE FAQ - Pastebin".archive.fo.2017-05-04. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-05-04.Retrieved2021-01-18.
  13. ^Van der Sar, Ernesto (2017-06-24)."Scammers Pick Up NYAA Torrents Domain Name".TorrentFreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2019-07-14.Retrieved2018-09-18.Just a few weeks after the domain names of anime torrent site NYAA were deactivated, one of them is back in action. However, the domain no longer belongs to the old crew, but to scammers who are trying to lure irreproachable users into downloading harmful content.
  14. ^Van der Sar, Ernesto (2018-04-20)."Cloudflare Kicks Out Torrent Site For Abuse Reporting Interference".TorrentFreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-04-16.Retrieved2022-04-16.
  15. ^Maxwell, Andy (July 29, 2020)."Disney Obtains New 'Dynamic' Court Order to Block 118 'Pirate' Domains".TorrentFreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-09-01.Retrieved2024-01-10.
  16. ^Van der Sar, Ernesto (June 8, 2021)."Why is Verizon Blocking Pirate Sites Such as NYAA and Mangadex?".TorrentFreak.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-12-07.Retrieved2024-01-10.
  17. ^"Nyaa.si announcement about proxy sites".Nyaatorrents.info.Archivedfrom the original on 2023-03-03.Retrieved2024-01-10.
  18. ^ab"Rules".Nyaa.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-06-07.Retrieved2024-01-10.
  19. ^"Help".Nyaa.Archivedfrom the original on 2022-06-07.Retrieved2024-01-10.
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