Torrentz is back! Clone website surfaces online

Torrent websites have not been having a good run lately. Number one player The Pirate Bay was famously shut down last year, and more recently Kickass Torrents was the second to bite the dust. But if there’s one thing you can count on in the digital piracy world, “down” is rarely a permanent thing.

Both Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents have been kept online through proxy servers in alternate locations, and recent closure Torrentz is no different. After being shut down on Friday, a clone of the torrent aggregator is back online, now being hosted at Torrentz2.eu.

It’s still not clear why the original website was shut down; all users were left with was a message on the home page reading, “Torrentz will always love you. Farewell.” Torrentz2, pays tribute to it’s predecessor with a message of its own. “We will always love you Torrentz. Goodbye.