1337x is an online website that provides a directory of

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s and magnet links used for

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through the

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protocol. According to the

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news blog, 1337x is the second-most popular torrent website . The U.S. Trade Representative flagged it as one of the most notorious pirate sites earlier in 2024. The site and its variants have been blocked in a variety of nations, including

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and

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. More than 6.59 million takedown requests targeting the domain 1337x.to have been sent to Google.

History

1337x was founded in 2007 and saw increasing popularity in 2016 after the closure of KickassTorrents. In October 2016, it introduced a website redesign with new functionalities. The site was banned from

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search queries and did not appear when searching through

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. This action was taken following a DMCA complaint by Feelgood Entertainment in 2015. In 2015, the site moved from its older .pl domain to .to, partly in order to evade the block. The site now appears on the Google Search, while fake sites and proxies rank on the top. 1337x's design can be compared to the now defunct h33t. It has been touted as an alternative to

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