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Nyaa Torrents (named from the Japanese term for a cat's meow) is a BitTorrent website focused on East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean) media. It is one of the largest public anime-dedicated torrent indexes.
In 2011, some of the site users were targeted for digital piracy. In 2014 the site was identified as a major digital piracy outlet by the Japanese government. The site was a target of a large DDoS attack in early September 2014.
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