We all are quite familiar with the name YIFY Proxy websites, as it is one of the few first sites which strikes in our mind when it comes to downloading movies online. But have you ever wondered what YIFY stands for? Though its abbreviation is still not clear as per research YIFY is the name derived from its founder Yiftach Swery, a 23-year-old app and website developer.
Later on, Yify rebranded to YTS (stands for Yify Torrents Solutions) and started featuring high-quality releases of the latest movies. As the years went by the group amassed a huge following, and a year ago its website generated millions of pageviews per day. A true success story, but one that ended abruptly.
Hollywood sources tracked down the founder of YIFY and filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in New Zealand. This meant the end of YIFY and YTS, but surprisingly the case was never heard in court.
How Yify Managed to get the Content?
In 2010 a fresh movie piracy brand began to conquer the Internet, the so-called ?Scene?. The Scene had people working in printing warehouses and other production plants where the blu-rays are prepared weeks before they are shipped to stores. These people get a hold of early copies that are binned for bad printing and other stuff. The disc and the media on it are fine but the printing isn?t good so it?s binned.
The people working in the scene steal it from the bin and upload the full BD25/BD50 (untouched blu-ray with DRM removed) for the scene group they?re part of to make an encode out of. Once this encode is out YIFY download it and transcode using shitty settings to get the file size down. YIFY like to pretend they?re underground ?YIFY doesn?t reveal specific sources but says it mostly relies on ?leaked Blu-ray disks from friends.? but really they just steal from the scene.
Streaming Online Content: Legal or illegal
Jim Gibson, director of the Intellectual Property Institute at the University of Richmond law school, told Business Insider that streaming online content breaks the law in two cases.
When the user downloads even part of a file ? called ?pseudo-streaming? ? it counts as a copy of copyrighted material, which is illegal. And when the user streams content as a ?public performance? ? namely, when it?s shown to a substantial number of people outside the normal family circle and its close acquaintances ? it also constitutes a copyright violation.Outside of these cases, accessing unlicensed streamed content is generally legal.