Nyaa was just scared and a lot of it was to do with being the biggest fish in the pond. You don't want to be the biggest fish in the pond when it comes to sharing pirated materials. And if people are really that afraid they can use more obscure torrent options such as private trackers. However most people should ideally be using a seedbox for any torrenting. As for me, my seedbox isn't even in the same country as me... and the way I see it, they have bigger fish to go after. Like the ones making money on pirating, not us small fry just sharing stuff we enjoy for free. That's why sites like KAT was taken down. And why they're now targetting KissAnime.

As for "Kametsu", "mini", or "moderate midpoint". Eh, I consider Kametsu one of the moderate midpoints actually. We try to compress as much as we can without getting to the point of sacrificing quality for compression gains. Of course we do include FLAC though, so someone who is concerned about file size can always convert the FLAC to lower bitrate AAC or download a 720p.

Anyways, it's 2017 and 4K is a thing and has recently been cracked. I see ALOT of 4K live-action television shows and movies, and it's only going to get more main stream. You're suggesting that MEGA implementing limitations is somehow gonna effect groups who do not utilize MEGA, but it's not. If anything file sizes will continue to grow. I mean I'm seeing 80GB movie encodes and 20GB episode encodes due to 4K resolution now, and file hosts are obviously not affecting them being released.

Why would something not being used affect it? That's like claiming that because the price of plastic increases, somehow Pizza Hut is gonna charge more for their pizza. It's completely unrelated. If a group doesn't use MEGA, then anything MEGA does is obviously not going to affect them. Quality groups aren't suddenly going to encode in crap quality to meet some size requirement just because one file host they don't utilize sets some limitation.