{"id":86896,"date":"2026-08-06T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86896"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:07:33","slug":"yggtorrent-teases-a-comeback-in-september-weeks-after-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86896","title":{"rendered":"YggTorrent Teases a Comeback in September, Weeks After Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ygglogo\"YggTorrent was France\u2019s largest torrent community, home to more than 10 million registered members before it shut down in March<\/a> following a devastating hack. <\/p>\n

The operators threw in the towel, and in July the French Gendarmerie arrested twelve people<\/a> it accused of running the operation.<\/p>\n

However, someone apparently still sees value in the brand.<\/p>\n

Until recently, visitors to yggtorrent.org landed on a domain sale pitch. The domain name, bundled with 59 others into what the listing called a \u201ccomprehensive portfolio\u201d and an \u201cestablished brand with millions of users,\u201d had a substantial $700,000 asking price. That\u2019s just for the domains.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

For sale (wayback<\/a>)<\/em><\/center>
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The twelve arrests came after the domain went up for sale, which might suggest the deal would fall through. We can\u2019t confirm this either way, but new messaging on the official domain shows \u2018someone\u2019 is attempting to make a comeback.<\/p>\n

\u2018Grand Return\u2019<\/h2>\n

The yggtorrent.org domain currently redirects to yggtorrent.to, where a countdown clock ticks toward a relaunch on September 1 at midnight Paris time. An accompanying message explains that a \u2018new team\u2019 has taken over.<\/p>\n

\u201cYggTorrent rises from the ashes,\u201d the (translated) page reads. \u201cThe largest French-language sharing platform is making its grand return. The catalogue, the community, the Ygg spirit: nothing has changed, everything is ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Comeback<\/em><\/center>
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The comeback announcement notes that the YggTorrent community still comprises 6 million members, who have access to over a million torrents. How many of the former users plan to return after the hack and the police arrests has yet to be seen, but the tracker suggests that YggTorrent\u2019s remnants are still going. <\/p>\n

\u2018Nothing Has Changed\u2019<\/h2>\n

The comeback teaser notes that \u2018nothing has changed\u2019 and it points to a tracker status page<\/a> which shows that many YggTorrent torrents are still being actively shared. <\/p>\n

At the time of writing, it reported 455,300 torrents and more than 1.5 million connected peers, roughly 94% of them seeders. This suggests that the \u2018new team\u2019 that controls the domain also has a working tracker, or access to the old one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tracker stats<\/em><\/center>
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Who\u2019s in charge of the new team remains a mystery. The domain name WHOIS data shows no recent changes. This doesn\u2019t mean that it didn\u2019t change owners, as the registrar accounts might have been sold in full, but there are no public traces of that.<\/p>\n

Whether the teased comeback is a true revival, a potential scam, or anything in between remains unclear. For now, the clock is ticking, and with the French police not ruling out further arrests, they might be keeping an eye on the comeback too. <\/p>\n

From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\n

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