Although having an intermittent presence on the web, KickAss Torrents maintains its solid lead as the most popular file-sharing site.
According to Torrent Freak, KAT has entered the Alexa Top 70 list of most popular sites visited by users online, and being the only torrent site on the list, it is the most popular among file-sharing ones. The industry follower stated that KAT has already solidified its presence among torrent sharers, as it gained lead over another fan favorite, The Pirate Bay, already two years in a row. This is after placing second behind TPB back in 2013. However, the highest rank that TPB has attained in Alexa is just number 76 on its list, back in 2011.
It is also noted that KAT's place on the charts is a meteoric rise since the torrent service started at rank 151, building up enough hype to land at number 85 at the start of 2016, and breaching the top 70 just recently.
The only torrent site to breach Alexa's top 100 over the years is Mininova back in 2007.
Meanwhile, although KAT is still being elusive to the authorities, it still submits to digital copyrights up to a point. Just recently, the management has announced that over a million torrents on the website were taken down as part of KAT's compliance with DMCA takedown requests. The website said, "As logical as it might sound many users upload copyrighted materials that the real owners want to be taken down later. KickassTorrents has shown to comply with DMCA takedowns and this makes it a little bit different from the other torrent sites."
The website calculates that as many as more than a million files have already been taken down due to the requests. Last month alone, more than 55 thousand torrents were deleted, and add to that the 16 thousand files taken down just last week.
