History
In November 2008, scammer(s) using fake papers tried to take over the torrentz.com domain. As a backup, the site administrator set up the domain torrentz.eu. After 18 December 2010 torrentz.eu became the site's default domain because of the domain name seizures carried out by US authorities on various torrent websites. In 2013 Paramount Pictures sent Digital Millenium Copyright Act claim to Google to block torrentz home page and two other pages however, torrentz counter claimed on this request saying the links are not infringing any copyright policy.
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