Is KissAnime Down?

KissAnime has been an anime-focused record streaming website that hosted hyperlinks and embedded videos, allowing users to download or stream movies and TV shows illegally at no cost. It was a sister site to some connected manga viewing site, KissManga. KissAnime was explained as"one of the world's biggest streaming anime sites". TorrentFreak reported the sites had crowds of millions and for a time, KissAnime had been "the most visited pirate website in the world". The website, as well as KissManga, was closed down on 14 August 2020 after about 8 years of presence (the .com website had been registered in 2012 and a more recent .ru domain in 2016), and it's been suggested this was completed as a result of copyright complaints, and also the threat of this new, stricter Japanese legislation on online piracy. In 2017 the site was also a target of a subpoena by US company FUNimation, which clarified its activities as aimed toward" someone... disseminating infringing content on a MASSIVE scale, for gain." Has KissAnime been shut down? In 2018 the site was blocked in Australia.