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
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) Extinct YIFY
In late October 2015, the releases stopped. The website went dark with zero warning. For weeks, the "pirate" community was in a frenzy of speculation: Was it a DDoS attack? Had they just retired? But the "Real YIFY" has been extinct for nearly a decade