The truth was much more final. The had tracked Swery to Auckland, New Zealand, and hit him with a multi-million-dollar lawsuit. Unlike other pirate icons who fought legal battles for years, Swery didn't put up a fight. He later noted in an AMA, "When someone asks you to stop properly, you stop". The Era of the "Zombie" Clones
But the "Real YIFY" has been extinct for nearly a decade. Here is the story of how a single developer from New Zealand changed the movie industry forever and then vanished overnight. The Rise of the Compression King Extinct YIFY
It wasn't for the "audiophiles" (who often criticized the low-bitrate audio), but for the casual viewer with limited bandwidth, it was a revolution. By 2015, the official YTS website was pulling in over , reaching the Alexa Top 600 worldwide. The Sudden Silence (October 2015) The truth was much more final