EZTV has shut down. If you download TV torrents, stay away from the site. You’re going to need to find a new resource.
There are roughly one trillion easily accessible torrent communities on the web today, but none as identifiable as a select few: The Pirate Bay, the phoenix-like Demonoid, and EZTV. Toward the end of last year, both The Pirate Bay and EZTV got raided and shut down, but EZTV returned about two weeks later. Now, around half a year since the torrent site’s resurrection, EZTV is calling it quits.
The site wasn’t just known as an easy-to-use repository of TV torrents, but a trusted source of high quality, highly seeded scene releases. Both piracy sources are now being shuttered due to what is essentially a hostile takeover. Earlier this year, the site’s .IT domain was suspended not for piracy, but for incorrect Whois info. Shortly after, the domain was put up for sale, and purchased by pretenders to the throne. The usurpers registered a company that shared the same name as the original EZTV’s company, EZCloud Limited, and used that to trick another registrar and gain access to EZTV’s .SE domain. This gave the usurpers access to the mailbox of EZTV’s founder, which in turn provided them with passwords to the group’s various registrar accounts, which they changed across the board.
Once EZTV’s last, untouched bastion fell — the .CH domain — the usurpers won.
The new group is now posing as the original EZTV, continuing to distribute torrents and run the domains. Other popular torrent communities, like The Pirate Bay, have not only suspended the official EZTV accounts, but added warnings to the new group’s torrent listings.
The original group’s founders can theoretically start anew — they’d have the backing of loyal fans and distribution sites to get them up off the ground — but instead, they decided to hang up their gloves.
If you partake in the piracy scene, it’d probably be best to stay clear of the newly taken over EZTV releases.