News report

# KickassTorrents Brought Back to Life by Original Staffers (Updated)

TorrentFreak, December 16, 2016. KickassTorrents resurgence: the relaunch at katcr.co by the majority of the original KAT staff, admins and moderation team after the July 2016 seizure of kat.cr.

**Source type:** News report

**Published:** December 16, 2016

**Research grade:** S2

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**Publisher:** TorrentFreak

**Published:** December 16, 2016

**Source type:** News report

**Research grade:** Source grade S2

**Language:** English

**Official record:** Not an official publication

**Address:** [https://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-brought-back-to-life-by-original-staffers-161216/](https://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-brought-back-to-life-by-original-staffers-161216/)

**What it supports:** KickassTorrents resurgence: the relaunch at katcr.co by the majority of the original KAT staff, admins and moderation team after the July 2016 seizure of kat.cr

**Dataset id:** src\_torrentfreak\_kat\_katcr\_2016

## Research notes

- By Ernesto Van der Sar.
- published\_on taken from the page's schema.org datePublished (2016-12-16T08:33:44+00:00).
- The headline carries a '(Updated)' suffix, which is reproduced verbatim here.

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## Cited by

### Later activity

1 citation

Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[KATcr (katcr.co) relaunch by original staff](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/kickass-torrents-takedown)

Partial operator continuity, Kickass Torrents takedown

Later outcome

[All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)