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EZTV Goes Down Again

After being down for maintenance for a few days earlier this month, EZTV.it is unresponsive again today.

EZTV is arguably one of the largest BitTorrent communities, so any downtime immediately leads to all kinds of horror stories about raids and seizures.

None of this is true though.

No official explanation is available for the downtime yet, but we’re reliably informed that it’s merely a technical issue.

eztvAs always, the EZTV crew will do all it can to solve the issues as soon as possible.

We’ve reached out to the EZTV team and will update this article with an official response when we hear back from them.

Update: The EZTV people told TorrentFreak that it’s a “small hiuccup with DNS.” The site will be back ‘soon’ (within a few days, no ETA).

Update: And they’re back…

Update (May 28): EZTV is suffering downtime again, no word about that’s causing it yet..

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  • Anonymous

    Actually, i don’t believe that there’s any conspiracy going on. Sure, we know that the MPAA and the RIAA are really zealous when it comes to pirating their content, but it would appear like the TV Industry doesn’t really care about TV piracy, at least, not in the media.

    Also, i understand that pirating content from pay channels like HBO and Cartoon Network could be frowned upon, but what about content that’s Free to air? if you pay your TV License, shouldn’t you be free to watch it in anyway you want it, too?

    • NorthAmerican

      A good deal of the world (North America specifically) doesn’t pay a TV License. We just get our over the air signals free of charge with however many TVs are located in an establishment or household.

    • Norman

      TV License is a (non US) Idea. I think of England. The US system is based on revenue from commercials. The torrents are stripped of said commercials. On the other hand the ad revenues do not reflect the viewers who watch the shows illegally. The ratings system is based on those who have “tuned in” to the shows. The pirating of shows from HBO or Showtime has a much larger impact. your fee for for signing up to HBO directly effects the funds they have to produce shows like The Game of Thrones. You have much more influence over that show’s production than you would say ‘two and a half men’ Write hbo and tell them you signed up and continue to pay because of shows like Games of Thrones and you can have a positive influence on the show. Steal it and remain silent and it may go the route of Carnival or Firefly.

      • Dude

        From what I can gather, TV show ratings are based upon a sample of viewers, therefore these people must have paid for there TV and tuned in. If they’ve sampled correctly then we should get represented anyway I’d figure. That said, the TV execs do love to cancel my favourite shows, so something isn’t working out.

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Q2FNVKPAXDABACY54POAT64A3I Henzi

          Please learn what Nielsen is and how it works. It’s through survey…

        • Bob

          survey?

          Nielsen television ratings are gathered in one of two ways:

          Viewer “diaries”, in which a target audience self-records its viewing or listening habits. By targeting various demographics, the assembled statistical models provide a rendering of the audiences of any given show, network, and programming hour.
          A more technologically sophisticated system uses Set Meters, which are small devices connected to televisions in selected homes. These devices gather the viewing habits of the home and transmit the information nightly to Nielsen through a “Home Unit” connected to a phone line. The technology-based home unit system is meant to allow market researchers to study television viewing habits on a minute to minute basis, seeing the exact moment viewers change channels or turn off their TV. In addition to set meters, individual viewer reporting devices, such as people meters, have allowed the company to separate household viewing information into various demographic groups, but so far Nielsen has refused to change its distribution of data of ethnic groups into subgroups, which could give more targeted information to networks and advertisers.

        • Jumpin’ Jack Flash

          Yes, THEY never let me see how “Cavemen” ended their season, I’m still pissed…loved that show, now I’m reduced to the occasional Geico ad! :(

        • http://victorta.myopenid.com/ Reboot Now/Reboot Later

          This is silly. As if they could not setup a temporary DNS record for the time being….not difficult at all.

          Something else is going on…

        • Jatonblue

          omg i love that show too! Pissed that it got cancelled. i was just thinking about it yesterday

      • Mnickless

        good. i will steal it and hope it is fucking cancelled

    • A.Nonymous

      good point, but you are obviously not in the US, as we don’t have TV licenses. the free over the air stuff, is paid for by advertisers running commercials every few minutes( this is why a 30 min show is really 22, and a hour show is only 43 min. the rest is advertisements), or doing product placement in the show(Bones has been blatant about this in the past couple seasons. first Toyota vehicles, now Microsoft with windows phone 7, sky drive, etc.) so the networks here are beholden to the advertisers to make sure you watch their commercials, which are of course cut out of all the copies you find here on the interwebs. (if the commercials were left in, and you couldn’t fast forward through them, the industry wouldn’t “work so hard” to shut down these types of sites.

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  • Genesis`

    clear your dns catch, site is working for many people

    • dr rocks

      i don’t know what a dns cache is

      • Having a Sarcasm

        It’s a cache, of DNS entries.

        • Blah

          cmd > ipconfig /flushdns

          …although it made no difference to me… DNS hijacking?

  • Guest

    i think that they have some dns issues, but work is in progress to fix them. until it’s fixed, use this:

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=eztv.it

    => add this to the hosts file:
    192.121.86.98 eztv.it
    192.121.86.98 http://www.eztv.it

    http://www.intodns.com/eztv.it

    ERROR: Some of your DNS servers do not have A records at all. I could not find any A records for the following DNS servers:
    ns3.eztv.se
    ns2.eztv.se
    ns1.eztv.se
    ns4.eztv.se

    • Jasonhm

      That worked Great Thanks fella

      If i add .www1.se.eztv.se to the host file what is the preceeding ip address, any clues :-)

      192.121.86.98 eztv.it
      192.121.86.98 http://www.eztv.it
      ???.???.???.??? se.eztv.se
      ???.???.???.??? www1.se.eztv.se

  • paperback1973

    I live in the Netherlands and most of the series we don’t even get here. I wouldn’t mind looking at commercials during the show if that was a legal possibility.
    Whenever I try it the legal way the screen says: you are not allowed to see this content, you are not an Americain ( or something very similar ;-))
    So, I don’t mind ads…..

  • http://www.bytehead.org/blog/ Bryan “bytehead” Price

    ezrss.it has also been down for some time.

    • David W

      Anyone have info on ezrss.it???? Would really love to know if they are down for the long term.

  • Sq

    Same here: I’m not an amercian and some of the shows just don’t air here. Even if they are sometimes their sychro is screwed and that takes out most of the fun and charme of a series.

    • paperback1973

      I download and watch the episode and that’s pretty much it. I don’t burn it on dvd or cd or whatever. I just watch.

    • paperback1973

      I download and watch the episode and that’s pretty much it. I don’t burn it on dvd or cd or whatever. I just watch.

  • FoUoBoAoR

    I just set my PVR to record the shows I torrent so they still get the view count, but I can watch it easily on my computer commercial free thanks to Eztv.

    • Fapmaster

      You’re wasting your time. Unless you have a Nielsen box, what you watch does not matter at all. Even if you do, advertisers won’t accept DVR-included ratings to determine the value of commercial spots.

  • torrentfan1969

    I am also not an american. I wouldn’t mind to pay per episode (I am not a fan of commercials), I just don’t want to wait to get outdated shows (e.g. a valentinesday episode at christmas) and I don’t want to watch with bad subtitles. It is a global world, airing should be worldwide.

    • Ah-ha-ha-ha

      Do itunes do pay per episode for many series? Where’s Hulu international at atm?

      • Jerb

        Hulu International will likely never happen; the licensing agreements are a nightmare as it is. Sad but true. :(

  • redhead

    still down for me in oz.

  • Nyltak

    is Vuze down too?

  • A-non-e-moose

    I record my own shows OTA and watch when I’ve got time. I even use MCE Buddy to strip the commercials so I don’t have to fuss with them. EZTV comes in handy on such nights as this. I am not a huge sports fan, and when our local team games are shown in place of my favorite shows (tonight I missed Community), I head to EZTV to catch what I just missed. As for cable shows – That’s what Netflix is for. I haven’t had cable for several years so I don’t feel I’m missing much by waiting until such programming arrives at Netflix. Network TV is a different story, as I stated above. If someone else doesn’t strip them commercials, I can easily do it myself. I can’t, however, watch regular programming in place of local sporting events.

  • Kezzie1985

    still down for me in scotland gutted looking forward to watching my programmes. must keep eztv all the programmes i watch are between 10 episodes to a whole season behind when aired on tv here.

    • Knowledge

      You will never need eztv again !

      immortalseed.com open
      torrentday.me open

      TVTorrents
      Thebox.bz

      • GGismogadget

        Immortal Messages

        Registration is CLOSED………..

    • Knowledge

      You will never need eztv again !

      immortalseed.com open
      torrentday.me open

      TVTorrents
      Thebox.bz

  • Itsme

    Knowledge, so how or where does one get an invitation code for TVTorrents?

  • cas

    EZTV are still uploading torrents to TPB so get them from there until site is back up.

  • grumpy

    eztv still down ……at 15.32 gmt

  • Watcher

    i am trying to access the eztv website from yesterday its giving me this error all the time. “Could not locate remote server”. Any solution will be appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • carlos140

      just go to thepiratebay.org, in their search, type in “eztv the vampire diaries” or whatever show oyu want, just put eztv at the beginning of the enquiry, then the sho’w name, as someone said, eztv is uploading their torrents to thepiratebay.org. Worked for me just fine.

  • Ah-ha-ha-ha

    I use EZTV lots and visit most days even when there’s nothing I’m planning to get, just to see what’s about. It’s also my default page to go to when I need to make sure my routers actually working (as its a quick load, low graphics site and my router’s crappy) so I end up there 5 or 6 times a day usually.

    I’ve been able to access the site all the time over the last few days and I’ve just tested a torrent and I got that too. No problem here in the slightest.

    I assume people know that they also upload to tpb right?

    http://thepiratebay.org/user/eztv/

    Hope that helps.

  • Ah-ha-ha-ha

    I use EZTV lots and visit most days even when there’s nothing I’m planning to get, just to see what’s about. It’s also my default page to go to when I need to make sure my routers actually working (as its a quick load, low graphics site and my router’s crappy) so I end up there 5 or 6 times a day usually.

    I’ve been able to access the site all the time over the last few days and I’ve just tested a torrent and I got that too. No problem here in the slightest.

    I assume people know that they also upload to tpb right?

    http://thepiratebay.org/user/eztv/

    Hope that helps.

  • Qwerty

    I often find the the reason people in the UK and other non-us countries download from Torrent websites is not because they are trying to save money but because of the long time delays which exist between the US and UK showings. I have a full UK TV subscription and get virtually ever UK channel but I can wait almost a year for some programmes, while others never show on UK TV. US TV companies need to release thier products at the same time as the US with companies like Sky (Fox in the US) realising that the international market does not like to feel like a secound class viewer.

  • Guest

    Actually, what “Ah-ha-ha-ha” posted works perfectly. If you search

    http://thepiratebay.org/user/eztv/ you will get all the torrents uploaded from eztv.

    There’s no need to go messing around with your dns settings.

  • Temphish

    There’s been a serious problem with a lot of people not being able to start torrents – many from eztv.

    This all started with the last down time eztv had earlier this April. I’m assuming the down time now is to try and fix the problems with torrents not starting and some of the comments above seem to indicate that as well.

  • Ray

    They’re probably hosted with Amizon, lol!

  • someguyfoweb

    I just want to DL the new camelot eps that was on last night but even TPB doesn’t have it

    • John

      That is because a new episode did not air last night.
      I believe it is a new episode next week.

    • Nick Emery

      I think Camelot is on a break this week due to Easter

  • Anono

    Hey I have a theory to why all the good shows get axed and the lame shows continue……because all the good shows are sci-fi, sci-fi fans are generally creative and tech orientated hence know how to torrent rather than sit and watch lame tv or wait….ie.WE WANT IT NOW!….As for everyone else, they watch normal TV like good little citizens and only because they dont know how to torrent shows, hence they are the ratings controllers to what stays, and what goes.
    Like who the hell would torrent “Dancing with the stars” or any of the Karaoke Idol lame stuff??

  • Ssssssss

    Oh dear god, it has been down now for like 5 days. They have stoped releasing new torrents and there are absoloutly no rips of DR.WHO that I can find out there. I wish these people would throw us a bone and give us an status update, wave a flag or something so we know they are still alive, or possibly even give an eta.

  • http://rpg-exploiters.com Spitt

    bt-chat.com/browse.php?group=3 = EZTV.it (plus some other groups)

  • eazypeazy

    heh, you know eztv has been uninterrupted in it’s original form ?

    all this whining, when all you have to do is join #eztv on efnet

    • newbie

      Being a newbie – how do i use or subscribe to efnet?
      no clue here, hope you can help :-)

  • Jabba

    Down in South Africa JHb. Tried http://thepiratebay.org/user/eztv/ and get that the requested url could not be located.

  • Strages

    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ITS BACK UP DNS FIXED

    • Vincent

      Hmm, you got lucky cause apparently, it went down once again, can’t access it at the moment

    • JasonHM

      it was up for about 18 hours and is now non responsive, any news or clues??

  • Grand_wazoo70

    site is up but the RSS feed isn’t functioning

  • Vole

    Still no ezrss?

  • Noreply

    RSS seems to be back online! Yay! Thanks EZTV team for providing such a great service!

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