
On ApaXXo made their last known comment on message board "Darkside_RG", in response to rumors that they had stopped posting on Darkside_RG. For a while they logged into Mininova until the site switched to only hosting torrents that were Content Distribution free or torrents with no copyrights. On March 11, 2009, aXXo stopped uploading new files after releasing Punisher: War Zone. On December 15, 2008, aXXo's thousandth movie upload, a copy of the Kiefer Sutherland horror film Mirrors, appeared on an Internet forum for the Darkside Release Group.

After an absence of four months aXXo returned to uploading, starting with the movie I Am Legend on March 9, 2008. While past aXXo torrents remained available on other torrent sites, uploads of new aXXo files stopped on November 11, 2007. In November 2007, aXXo deleted all of their files released after Septemfrom The Pirate Bay protesting that the site was allowing harassing comments to be added to their torrents by "possible members of MPAA". History ĪXXo first appeared in November 2005 on the message board "Darkside_RG". Due to the re-encoded quality of an aXXo file, the suffix "aXXo" was often used by imitators. aXXo encoded files to approximately 700 MB – the same size for a compact disc. A download-tracking firm BigChampagne found - in a sampling period in late 2008 - that almost 33.5% of all movie downloads were aXXo torrents.

The files, which were usually new films, were popular among the file sharing community using peer-to-peer file sharing protocols such as BitTorrent.

nfo file by kug.ĪXXo is the Internet alias of an individual who released and standardized commercial film DVDs as free downloads on the Internet between 20.
