KickassTorrents Celebrates ‘Happy Torrents Day’

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[img]http://torrentfreak.com/images/HTD.jpg[/img]With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) has become the most-used torrent site on the Internet, beating even The Pirate Bay.

The site also has a very active community of torrent aficionados from all over the world. On March 30th the site staff and its members come together to celebrate their beloved pastime on “[url="https://kickass.to/blog/post/happy-torrents-day-2015/"]Happy Torrents Day[/url].”

The event was started by KAT administrator Mr. Pink. Initially it was a small celebration but over the years it has turned into a recurring tradition with many thousands of people participating.

TF spoke with Mr. Pink who notes that Torrents Day is a celebration of file-sharing. With the news being dominated by lawsuits, domain name trouble and torrent takedowns, this day is focuses of the positive.

“The main purpose is to get everybody to believe that what we do is worth fighting for. Everybody is equal. Yes it started on Kickass with us but it’s not about us. It’s about every person that believes in file sharing,” Mr. Pink says.

In recent weeks a lot of torrents have disappeared from the site as a result of an [url="https://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-users-fight-back-against-dmca-takedown-purge-150201/"]increase in DMCA takedown notices[/url]. The idea behind Torrent Day is to get people focused on something positive again.

“The DMCA is clamping down on us hard lately. And it’s becoming tougher so we need to give the userbase something to believe in,” Mr. Pink notes.

In celebration of the festive day several challenges and initiatives have been launched. A Happy Torrents Day album has been released for example, as well as the first issue of KAT’s official magazine “[url="https://kickass.to/the-katalyst-issue-1-march-2015-t10425733.html"]The KATalyst[/url].”

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Besides KAT, Torrents Day is spreading to other sites as well. ExtraTorrent, another large community, previously joined in and is expected to do the same again this year.

If everything goes according to plan Torrents Day 2015 is expected to drive a lot of traffic to the site and perhaps set several new records.

“The support from other sites and the KAT team has been amazing,” Mr. Pink says. “We expect the site’s traffic and upload records to be broken today. We have a few ideas up our sleeves to make that happen.”

Records or not, judging from the activity on KAT’s website there’s definitely [url="https://kickass.to/community/special-day-celebration-forum/"]plenty of interest[/url]. So to all those who are celebrating: Happy Torrents Day!

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