Yify — It

: Reports indicate that the founder reached an out-of-court settlement with the MPAA to avoid further prosecution. Legacy and Current Status

: On October 30, 2015, the official YIFY/YTS website was permanently shut down following a multi-million-dollar lawsuit filed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

: The group was founded in 2010 by Yiftach Swery, a 23-year-old computer science student from Auckland, New Zealand, using the pseudonym "YIFY". It YIFY

: The goal was to re-encode and compress high-quality movies so they could be easily downloaded by users with slow internet connections or limited hard drive space.

: While their releases were praised for visual clarity relative to file size, they were often criticized by audiophiles for having low-bitrate audio and fewer audio channels. : Reports indicate that the founder reached an

: YIFY became famous for fitting 1080p movies into file sizes under 2GB, often using the x264 encoding software and .mkv or .mp4 containers.

: Modern clones are often flagged by security experts as suspicious, potentially hosting malicious programs or excessive advertising. : The goal was to re-encode and compress

YIFY, later rebranded as YTS, was one of the most prominent peer-to-peer release groups in the history of digital piracy, specializing in high-definition movie distributions with exceptionally small file sizes.