TorrentHound Piracy Portal Shuts Down, Third Majors Site in 3 Months

TorrentHound, one of the major torrenting destinations after the shutdown of Kickass Torrents and Torrentz.eu, has also decided to call it quits this week.

The site went offline on Thursday, in a similar manner as Torrentz.eu, by removing its content and only showing a static page.

This page read "Torrenthound.com - ca. 2007 to 2016" and included a list of alternative torrenting portals which it described as "not terrible." The site also linked to a viral video from 2010, depicting an old man screaming at mall employees after they decided to close a Toronto mall in the middle of the day.

Site closed down because of dwindling revenue

TorrentHound admins didn't provide any public explanation, but they returned an email to TorrentFreak over the weekend that read:

[CITATION]It’s a combination of less traffic, less revenue and our bills pili...