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EZTV Goes Down Due to DNS Troubles

eztvThe popular TV-torrent index EZTV is currently offline due to DNS problems.

At the moment there’s no indication how long the outage will last.

ezRSS, Istole.it and the torrent storage cache Zoink are suffering from the same problems and are down as well.

The downtime doesn’t mean that there are no new releases coming out.

As always, the leading TV-torrent distribution group continues to post torrents on The Pirate Bay and various other sites.

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  • Dazed and Confused

    What’s a torrent?

    • Vze2mp9g

      Google it and it might teach you something..

      • xpmule

        its easier to ask questions..
        lol @ the internet

        i’d be shocked if this guy/girl wasn’t joking though ;)
        I sure hope so :o

        • OMG

          Of course I was joking. But the responses are awesome.
          I freakin spewed my beer all over my keyboard!

        • Mitur Binesderti

          What’s a joke?

      • Guest

        What’s a Wal-Mart? Ah, Wally!. No use Googling that though.

        • Wal~Mart

          I’m Wal~Mart, the future of Anti-Bit torrent efforts’s. Stealing is bad. Only Jesus and Sam Walton had the right to give away free fishes or sell them at an attractive discount. You file sharers can’t share fish, and if you try, we will be eating popcorn and stuff.

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      a torrent file is a computer file that contains metadata about the files to be shared through the BitTorrent protocol, as well as about the tracker, which is the computer that coordinates the file distribution.

    • Brit

      More importantly, what is a “website”?

      • ScrewEwe2

        is?

        TYIA

    • ServiusTheBear

      I should slap you!

      • EH ?

        What is a “slap you” ?

        • Mitur Binesderti

          What is a “what is?”

        • Guest

          define define.

    • Rabiddog

      A torrent is when you spill a whole damn lot of orange juice on your computer motherboard. As soon as you get a torrent, you should contact the nearest Google ( trolls that guard the internet), to see if you should be transported to the nearest website ( places where internet spiders live), to get your gun and bullet to blow your brains out. Meeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyy Xmas.

    • Xander

      It’s the aftermath of some bad tacobell..

    • Guest

      What’s a computer, and how do I use it??

  • kris

    magnets how do they work

    • Vze2mp9g

      See Dazed and Confused.. Google Torrent, and then Google Magnets… You will find your answers…

      • Christian Fellowship

        Still cant get it.

        Fucking magnets how do they work ?

        Tide goes out, tide comes in……explain that too.

        You can’t.

        • Anon

          Tides are caused by the gravitational effect of the moon on the earth.

        • John Doe

          Tides as in The Tides Foundation? Oh snap

        • Gofast

          Isn’t Tide that tractor trailer that goes around washing people’s clothes?

      • larryisnowontheinternet

        whats google?

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      Unlike .torrent files, magnets can be embedded directly into a webpage as nothing more than a link. This link is made up of several parts and prefixed with the magnet: identifier. These links comprise of several identifiers (like the “exact topic” (xt) ?xt=urn:btih: prefixing the BitTorrent info hash), a hash value of the torrent file and sometimes other information like trackers (tr) and file name data (dn). The parts that make up a magnet link do not need to be presented in any particular order.

      A magnet link is essentially a hyperlink containing the hash code for that torrent, which your torrent client can immediately use to start finding people sharing those files. Magnet links don’t require a tracker (since it uses DHT), nor does it require you to download a separate file before starting the download, which is convenient.

      • http://www.facebook.com/urbansundstrom Urban Sundström

        Thankyou and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

        • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

          Hooray! I won an internets!

      • Mitur Binesderti

        The number one rule of Joke Club is you don’t explain Joke Club.

        • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

          I’m sorry, was I too subtle?

          I probably should have said something like “they make the metal things stick together durr hurr hurr”

          More along your speed?

    • Fatmacman

      am I the only one who gets this reference?

      • monkeypox69

        No I got it and LMFAO

    • ScrewEwe2

      Magnetism.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ender-Wiggin/100000885624281 Ender Wiggin

    kickasstorrents usually got eztv releases within a few minutes…sucks though, eztv is like my tv guide.

  • Pete45786

    How can I do a Google?

    • http://twitter.com/Life1sPeachy DarkSideOfLife

      Troll! Plz don`t feed the Trolls

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      You can go directly to Google.com by typing in http://google.com into your web browser. That will take you to the main Google web site, which is designed to serve the United States plus the world in general.

      Actually searching Google is pretty easy. Just type what you’re interested in finding into the search box on the Google web site.

      After you’ve searched, you’ll get a page full of results. You might get news or image results mixed in.

    • Kam1cc0l0

      for starters you have to invent interstellar travel then find other humanoids, then “do” a billion billion of them and you’ll have done a google.

      • ScrewEwe2

        Wonder how long it will be before we have google byte external drives? We allready have 6 TB drives. Wasn’t that long ago that a 320 GB drive was large. Now a 320 GB drive is useless. 14 or 15 years ago a 2 GB drive was the largest you could get in an internal drive.

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  • BF
  • xpmule

    I like this site although releases can be kinda late or never posted at all.
    One thing they do well is “index” torrents that don’t contain useless crap.
    With the shift towards magnet links i have grown sooo damn tired of downloading extra garbage.. having to wait for a magnet to kicking so i can UN-select how to’s on watching video’s or video samples etc :(
    And of course the obligatory url spam / advertisement text file crap..

    • Dole

      I don’t know what you just said But am glad you took the time to say it ?

      • xpmule

        I was easier to understand before the US govt. started stealing my megahurtz. they got the gwen poles trageting our minds and computers to seize the power of free speach so itz a battlez to make the talk work like its suppose too
        Thas why they invented the wifiz’ because they can steal your megahurtz eazier that ways !

  • billy3030

    I’m pretty sure that EZTV has had a red warning on the top of the homepage for days warning that downtime was coming for maintenance…Likely that is all this is unless I am missing something.

    • monkeypox69

      If it was there I didn’t see it. This article says it is DNS problems.

  • Feed Aggregator

    http://feeds.feedburner.com/eztv-rss-atom-feeds?format=xml

    Aggregate RSS feed for EZTV. Contains torrent links sourced from the EZTV web page, EZTV Twitter feed (user eztv_it) and The Pirate Bay (user eztv) and magnet links from TPB. Suitable for use with uTorrent or any other torrent client that only pays attention to the link and not enclosures.

    You will get multiple redundant links to torrents which when EZTV, Zoink, TPB, etc are unavailable means you can still get the torrents from elsewhere.

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      Hasn’t EZTV’s rss feed been down for liek…ever?

      At least it’s been very sketchy at best. I eventually resorted to just checking the site, because the rss feeds never downloaded new shows, I had to do it manually anyway.

      • Feed Aggregator

        Well yes. That’s why the EZTV RSS feed is only one source among several used to populate this aggregated feed.

        Of course, it all relies on the alternative sources being populated by EZTV. As Scott mentioned, the Twitter feed hasn’t been updated for about a week, and TPB hasn’t been updated for a couple of days either. But as soon as any one of the Twitter feed, TPB or EZTV web page (or miraculously the EZTV RSS feed) gets updated, this feed will start being populated again.

      • BF

        Yes ezrss has been wonky for quite a while.
        The site admin is planning a site redesign sometime early 2013.
        ezrss will be worked on too.

  • Scott

    EZTV’s twitter feed hasn’t been updated since 16th December. Zoink has been up and down a few times since then, and the website proper was offline for like 12 hours a few days ago – which I assumed was the maintenance time.

    DNS problems are a little bit disturbing. It could mean they’ve been forced offline..and it could mean they just thaven’t paid their hosting bill.

  • ?????

    also, ezRSS hasn’t updated (for me @ least) since early October.

  • Aimurray

    Oh No!! This is what the Mayans warned us about!

  • DeathAdder

    Don’t worry about the Mayans, the Sons of Anarchy are killing them off!

    • BF

      LMAO SAMCRO for the win!

    • BF

      lmao SAMCRO for the win!

  • Rick Woods

    what”s DNS?

  • No

    penis vagina

  • I’m the new guy :D

    how do you do a upside-down “b” ?

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      q?

      Here you go, I made lots so you can borrow some if you need them:

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      • Dick

        I used them all. Can you make some more please?

        • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

          Sorry, we’re all fresh out.

    • Gofast

      Turn your keyboard upside down

    • ScrewEwe2

      q¿p ?

  • MoonWatcher2

    rss feed from user eztv @ tpb is still active.

  • Ted Stevens

    How do I turn on my internets?

    • Taipan

      Just turn off your brain, and the rest will follow.

      • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

        I thought that was free your mind…

  • Zonker

    Pitate Bay banned in the UK. EZTV down. No PVN for me. Are you seriously telling me I may have to watch… TV??? Ack…

    • Bonker

      why not try kat.ph they seem pretty good at tv show uploads from eztv

    • Anon

      https://tpb.ipredator.se/

      You’re welcome.

  • Bill Bradley

    Site back up.

  • Midas

    This entire thread is in shambles.

  • CaptMorgan6

    EZTV is my place to get my tv shows. It’s a catch 22 for me in that I want to tell everyone about EZTV. But the selfish me doesn’t want the site to grow too popular in fear it will rise to the level of being hounded by feds.

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    Visit http://piratesniper.net
    Largest index of The Pirate Bay proxies in existence.

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