Torrents sites may have been under state of calamity lately, as authorities in full force of shutting down illegal file sharing sites. KickAss Torrents with its domain kickass.im was seized, which leaves them to return to Kickass.to domain. The Pirate Bay may be the next victim of a domain seizure, after the Swedish court will give its verdict this month.

When The Pirate Bay servers were closed down, various users began searching alternative sites for torrent downloads, which led them to go to KickassTorrents (KAT) site.

The Isle of Man Domain Registry removed KickassTorrents' domain name from their area at 9:30 AM within 24 hours. However, it was a planned move, with KAT directing users to a new site as well as to their previous domain, kickass.to. This was the latest blocking of a filesharing site, which Sweden is also set to remove The Piracy Bay's domain names.

Meanwhile, The Pirate Bay may have been the next victim of the domain shutdown. After the Swedish have concluded the fate of thepiratebay.se, the authorities are now expected to give its decision in early May over the future of two TPB domains thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se. Can they continue to operate or will they be seized?

Meanwhile, authorities may have often overlooked their campaign, as the anti-piracy measures could put the internet users at risk. It was reported that the more the entertainment companies and authorities shut down, suspend or block file sharing sites, more scammers will find their way in taking advantage of creating clone sites, which could potentially contain viruses, malwares and other phishing tools that mine data of the internet users.

Previous report even divulged that viruses emerged after shutdown. If you happen to remember, the Pirate Bay clone, which has been slinging some malware and actively pushing a dreaded Nuclear exploit kit which exposes the vulnerability of a Flash Player and includes downloading a banking Trojan. Now, with the domain closure of KickAss Torrents, the threat could be possible.