īy July 2015, the site's kat.cr address had been removed from Google Search's results. On 23 April 2015, the site moved to the Isle of Man based domain name kickasstorrents.im but was quickly taken down later that day and on 24 April it was moved to the Costa Rica based domain name kat.cr. On 14 February 2015, it was found that messages mentioning "kickass.to" were blocked on Steam chat, but "kickass.so" and other popular torrent websites were not blocked, only flagged as "potentially malicious". Later that day, the site reverted to its former domain name kickass.to. On 9 February 2015, kickass.so was listed as "banned" on Whois, causing the site to go offline. Reports stated that it was moved as a result of site's regular domain change. In December 2014, the site moved to the Somalia domain name kickass.so. In June 2014, KAT was blocked in Malaysia by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission for violating copyright law. In February 2014, Twitter started blocking links to KAT, however by the end of February 2014, KAT was unblocked on Twitter. In January 2014, several Irish ISPs started blocking KAT. In late August 2013, KAT was blocked by Belgian ISPs. On 23 June 2013, KAT was delisted from Google at the request of the MPAA. On 14 June 2013, the domain name was changed to Tonga domain name kickass.to as a part of the site's regular domain change. Judge Richard Arnold ruled that the site's design contributed to copyright infringement. On 28 February 2013, Internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom were ordered by the High Court in London to block access to KickassTorrents, along with two other torrent sites. The site later moved to several different domains, which the operators plan to do every six months, including ka.tt, kickass.to, kickass.so, kickasstorrents.im and kat.cr. On 21 April 2011, KickassTorrents moved to the Philippines domain name kat.ph after a series of domain name seizures by the United States Department of Justice against Demonoid and Torrentz. KAT was initially launched in November 2008 at the domain name. KickassTorrents says that it complies with the DMCA and it removes infringing torrents reported by content owners.
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