

That may have been part of a far broader attack against the video stream-ripper in multiple countries worldwide.

The shutdown appears to be the result of a long-running battle with the RIAA, which represents major recording labels Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment.īack in May of 2019, Digital Music News first reported that the RIAA had launched a major attack against Y2mate, specifically by issuing subpoenas against domain name registrant Namesecure and CDN Cloudflare. That includes a commenter below, which DMN can now confirm with our own tests of the region.

Other Australian users have reported that they can access the site, however. Instead of the usual page, the following message appears: “Access to this website has been disabled by an order of the Federal Court of Australia because it infringes or facilitates the infringement of copyright. In Australia, one user reported that is unavailable.
