Araditracker BitTorrent Site Shutdown After Legal Action
Written by enigmax on August 29, 2008After four years of operation, the private torrent site AradiTracker has been closed down by the administrators. After surviving ISP troubles exactly one year ago, fresh legal action against the site forced it to close yesterday and it is very unlikely to return.
A year (and a day) ago we reported that Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN had forced the closure of six torrent sites after their ISP, LeaseWeb was forced to hand over the administrators personal details. One of those sites, the 24,000 peer Araditracker, initially went dark but then reappeared at a new host, seemingly surviving unscathed.
Since its birth Araditracker has operated for over 4 years, however visitors to the site yesterday saw an ominous message on the homepage. The short notice said that Araditracker had been shutdown by ‘the powers that be’ with the admins indicating that the site would not be back. Thanks was sent out to all staff and members for their support.
With details scarce, TorrentFreak managed to find a senior staff member willing to talk on condition of anonymity, he told us: “Early Thursday morning (BST) legal action was taken directly against Araditracker. For the moment we are unable to divulge details. As a direct result the decision has been taken to close the site. It is very unlikely to return as a torrent tracker.”
Araditracker was born on May 4th 2005 “when a couple of guys on another site wanted to do more than they could where they were”. It gathered a few thousand members in its first few months of operation up to a peak of 37,000, with the total peers averaging around 24,000. No Microsoft content was indexed and in order to keep a ‘family feel’ on the site, the indexing of pornographic content was banned.
The site had been hosted in the UK, The Netherlands and most recently Canada, running radio, IRC and forums. There had been some rumors that the site couldn’t afford to keep going through lack of donations, something which is denied. Our source told us: “Despite speculation, it was not the money. Although donations were not as good as they have been and we had started to reorganize some hardware to compensate, the reason aradi is off-line has nothing to do with donations.”
Although trackers are loved for the wide range of access to media they provide, many are loved equally on the strength of their communities, where like-minded people can hang out and create friendships. In this respect Araditracker was no different. “We had a huge ‘family’ community,” said our source, “that is something we were very proud of and encouraged.”
It looks like Araditracker will not be back (as a torrent site at least) so there’s likely to be a sense of loss amongst the now ex-staff and members. Here is a final message for them:
“There are not enough words that can express our thanks for all support from the staff, past and present, Knights, VIPs, Uploaders, and members of all levels that have shared Araditracker over the last three years. Araditracker had a real sense of community and this more than anything will be missed by most.”
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176 Responses
1st.
Bummer. It was a great site and will be missed. I hope they can come back in some other way.
Shame to see a long running tracker go like this but woul dlove to know a few more details as to who what and why it’s been taken offline.
There host is not one to shut sites down and have seen the site domain now links to another host else where and not there Canada host as it was this moprning when news broke of there shut down ???
yeah!
the got shut down preettttyyy good.
w00t.
Surely with that many peers, perhaps they could form an organization for political influence?
its a damn shame… it was a great site…latest updates…too damn bad…
I think that perhaps someone could start a group like “former Araditracker users” to push for political change, don’t you think?
refusing to wipe after toilet useage until this is reversed.
gutted..truly gutted
what a shame to see such a good site go . R.I.P AradiTracker you will be deeply missed.
that sounds good to see a political Araditracker., it isa shame to see it get shut down so quickly. if there becomes a political Araditracker i am on board 100%.
what a bummer,,, aradi was a site i check 4 or 5 times a day,, it was part of my routine,, will be missed as it was theee best torrent site x
wow… that was one of the good trackers. Too bad it went down..
this is bullshit my heart aches…..
Now what do I do? I had Elite status at Aradi and was a frequent donator.. I have no clue where to go for my torrent needs now as all my other sites I used had been shut down as well long long ago :(
Great loss…damn good site
It actually does hurt when something like this happens, the whole community was a good buzz aswell as all the latest torrents… Aradi will be missed :(
Give DDT aka “DIDIDave” a go always been good to me
Smallish site but been running for well over 5 years now
Fast pre’s and free leech happy hour every day at random times
can you give ddt website link please
:/ It’s a shame. The site went off around 9-10pm EST last night.
missed 4 sure, f*** the ISP… that did this,
missed 4 sure, f*** the ISP… that did this,
Shame to see yet another tracker go down. Many thanks to the hard work that was put into this tracker and the other trackers that have gone before it. To everyone else keep up the good work and dont let the b-stards grind you down.
Aradi users…join us on TPG for updates…if you can’t find your way there, you can check the shortbuscult dot com for additional support!
truely gutted, was an emerald member from the early days and always trusted the reviews and content quality. will be sadly missed. many thanks to all who kept it going. and fingers crossed its not really the end of this fantastic tracker/community
the good staff @ the torrent source have opened there door to except all aradi refugees.
http://thetorrentsource.org/
yes aradi tracker was a awsome and will be greatly missed. if your a aradi member and want to stay with the community alot of aradi members are on thetorrentsource.org you can find your old freinds there . if you need anything just PM there and if u need bonus points hit me up. your more than welcome to make it your new home.
Gutted…One of my favourite sites on tha intranet.
What a loss!
Thanks guys for all you have done over the past years, it will probably never be surpassed.
I could always trust Aradi best site around, im going to miss it!
My head hangs low as I feel the end of an era… Araditracker was one of the best torrent sites around.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo why why
sorry to see Araditracker go I found it one of the safest to use and all the torrents were good. friendly team as well.
It truly is a sad day, the torrent community lost a great tracker.
makes you mad.
i would just like to say
you may stop me, but you can’t stop us all.
:)
I am truely gutted its like looseing part of your family..i will surely miss all you guys truly. R.I.P ARADI TRACKER
Anyone know who in Canada they were hosted by?
Was a great site I will miss it greatly.
I was on it. It was SO GOOD. U could request stuff and the uploaders would walk through the valley of virusses to find the good one for u. When I saw the message I was like, this can’t be. I read it 10 times before I knew it was real. I was like on that site 2 hours or more EVERY DAY. A part of me died today…
fuuuuuuuuuk…i love aradi..shit was awesome..lots of hard to find shit.
fuk shit fuk shit…my fav
I forgot to include this picture, it makes it all clear.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2026/araditrackalf6.jpg
Great site. I don’t know what to do without them RIP to the best site on the net we will miss you
Aradi Tracker had a real comfy look & design that was a big part of my life & my freinds lives to be honest. I just wanna to say Thank you for the chance provided to enjoy such a great site & community.
Amen to araditracker. RIP
F**K the legality of it…once some reject decides to put his intellectual property in the form of data on an accessible network…that said data becomes public…s**k my nuts! I for one will miss the ARADI community!
Gutted doent come close i used aradi every day ,
now what am i going to do with my spare time
thanks goes out to all that made aradi possible
F**K the legality of it…once some reject decides to put his intellectual property in the form of data on an accessible network…that said data becomes public…s**k my nuts! I for one will miss the ARADI community!
nooooooooooooooooo!!!!
The antipirates won this =[
I will definitely be missing Aradi! Had been my favorite private tracker for several years, and one of the very few torrent sites that I felt completely safe to upload as much as my connection would allow.
Cheers for providing such a wonderful resource for our community, and true hopes of seeing you guys again.
Perhaps we all need to try to revive Araditracker together, perhaps not as a tracker, but more as an organization that keeps up its spirit?
Sad to see Aradi has gone RIP :(
Looks like I’ll be spending more time over at http://torrentseed.org now
grrrr i loved Aradi.
I will never forget this.
They took out a general in the torrent army.
The captain of our ship.
We will strike back.
Aradi4Life
i know i just registered and got my 5 slots.
i wont quote the address so everyone knows this isn’t spam or advertisement.
just go and see.
oops the above was me i forgot to put my nick.
This guy above is not Radi. Any communication is through support@araditracker.com.
Admins please remove that post
That ^^^ is the biggest scam I have ever seen! ROFL
I wonder what will happen with sites now too that MoxieHosting are moving in secret to another datacentre.
ooops, not secret anymore.
While private trackers are a dime a dozen, Aradi kept me coming back because of the people there. Personal relationships were formed between the members that reached far more than just discussing the daily content. Seeing as how the IRC chatroom still provides that, I think we can all live and find another site though.
You can also find your fix at AL, great tracker, will satisfy all your needs. Go to IRC: irc.bend.me.uk and join #loungers and ask there :)
Deathwish your right but im a member of 1 or 2 some are better than others most are community based tho
too damn bad….
rip
total…you are a tool, you were prolly banned for cheating, you should stick with public sites rather than making dumb comments like that
RIP Aradi
You’re right there jonno. There are definitely other better sites out there and at least on the others you don’t login and see them begging for more money. Everytime I went there there was some PM asking for funds every single month. Eventually I quit going so no loss.
and why would my post be a scam?
and i never pretended to be from aradi?
what are you guys smoking?
Has anyone noticed that they were not paying for the webspace? it was from a free host, why in gods name were they asking for all those donations? Fuckers were conning people, thats damn low man, damn fucken low, im glad they were taken down
maybe all hte torent sites should form a union and pay a tiny fraction of there donations to a fund ot start investing into ISPS.
This would counter the trend of the riaa/mpaa to do exactly that.
if yo all are serious about winning this, take my head, we need to get more proactive in this fight.
Remember we are legion, they are few, and even with all there money and wealth we still exist.
YOU can get me , but you can’t get us all.
malek, apparently they removed the scam. Not that anyone would send money but you never know. :(
Damn, that sucks. A lot of people put a lot of time, effort, and resources into keeping the site going over the years. It will be sorely missed by myself and many others
Aradi members, come on SHORTBUSCULT.COM for updates etc…
No offense, but the sites posted are just…well they suck. Their selection is extremely limited, and the seed to peer ratio are horrible!
Demonoid it is…
This is Jebus, Forum Admin of Araditracker, like I said, come to shortbuscult.com for you updates, don’t bother with anyone else please.
Well what to say guys . Sorry for your loss.
Aradii was one of the good sites . Havent been there in a long time , but know many on it . Jebus , our doors are open for a few more weeks . A temporary shelter for those that dont have alot of sites.
yes some of the sites mentioned do have a low seed to peer ratio but the the main seeder on one of them is a server and 2 seed boxes :) they selection is low but geting bigger by the day, all the stuff on there is the latest stuff and any requests are filled asap :)i,ve been a member since the start and it has a real homely atmosphere with the friendliest staff i have ever had the pleasure dealing with not just the odd pm here and there.
great private site,and very friendly staff eager to help,also they have top notch releases
oh my god wheres it gone aradi we love u please come back
im gutted , aradi tracker and torrent spy where my two fav torrents sites and with in the space of two months there both gone.
former aradi member, so so sad….
but thanks to all those other private sites for opening up their signups!!! much much appreciated.
Aradi has closed shop? :(
Where the hell am I going to get my fix now? :( Sad sad day…
R.I.P. The best tracker.
I was also a member of a Aradi and loved the site and still love the irc – yay its still there. I will miss it alot. It was a great site.
For those looking for a home –
http://thetorrentsource.org has indeed opened its doors to all Aradi refugees and is doing everything they can to make those users who join feel at home. Before this happened many TTS staffers were Aradi members and we had several other members in common as well.
just to let everyone know (i haven’t read all posts so dunno if this was already posted) there is another private torrent site although i wouldn’t say it is a ‘family’ or that its ‘family-friendly’ either.
the site is:
http://www.torrentsforall.net
it may not always have everything you want but there are lots of new releases and older movies available all the time.
WTF! Dam Legal Ass holes ! Go bust someone with meth!
I will truly miss aradi , been with them from year one!
Now i have to go and look for a new home!
RIP and ditto
where one falls another 10 will rise in its place. You would think that the powers at large, after thousands of years of human civilisation might have learned this by now?????????????
OK, to set the record straight…ARADI is still here, in community spirit, do not run to these other sites please..they are trying to capitalize on our misfortune…the ONLY TRUE site I would recommend is fataltracker…as this was our starting point in time….but please, shortbuscult.com is your friend right now…do not beleive all these others claiming ALL their friends are on there…Jebus
Far out – have spent heaps of time on Aradi over the last 18 months, like when i stopped uni – WHAT am i going to do now.
Radi – good luck m8 – you’ll ALL be missed. Don’t let em get u buddy.
but for now i dont see a problem with seeking out new friends and new sites i love aradi and will stay loyal if they get back again but until then whats the harm in using sites as mentioned and yes there are friends from aradi alover these sites now they need somewhere to go instead of sitting there looking at blank screens
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You can also find your fix at AL, great tracker, will satisfy all your needs. Go to IRC: irc.bend.me.uk and join #loungers and ask there :)
I joined this site AL great site they are into their DJ’s and a good irc
thanks for letting me join
.net not .com djross thats one of em i found
All these sites that have been listed here as alternatives are one and the same.
They are rebadges of the same site, they are all the same content (but each with a different look to try and fool you). The torrents on each site are the same, with a maximum of 4 seeds for an item…
Don’t bother with them, I would suggest asking one of your mates or sticking with the oldschool ones that you know ‘work’.
R.I.P Araditracker, one hell of a site.
I don’t get why people are badmouthing the sites that are trying to give users a new place to get their torrents. Its up to the users to decide. I will be looking at them all, testing download speeds, looking for good friendly staff and familiar faces.
I’ll also be looking to see who begs for donations and get out of those places fast.
IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE IT HAS GONE IS THERE ANY OTHER SITES WITH THE SPEED OF ARADI THEY HAD IT ALL SPEED AND CLASS URE DAY WILL COME AGAIN KEEP STRONG WE WILL MEET AGAIN
WE NEED SITES LIKE ARADI TO KEEP US ALIVE PLEASE POST THE BEST SITES HERE AND REMEMBER SPEED SPEED SPEED
This suck i loved this tracker and it will be missed forever
I was a silver member there. Although aradi wasn’t my only source, it was one of my top 3. It is with a heavy heart that I must delete their bookmark and move on to my top 2.
the peer hub and scene leech are not my best sites.
I was a amathist member there. I goner miss it.
saw the comment on the torrensource and they said open doors to all but not to aradi refugees. above commnent #24.
The writing was on the wall for Aradi a few months ago. A noticeable dip in releases and some real pricks on the admin side.
I see a few other similar trackers going the same way soon.
It is too bad as Aradi were (once) very good.
Gutted to see the end of Aradi. Anyone know where to go for a movie site?
lol Bruno – in to all I meant to Aradi Refugees. Over 1000 have already joined http://thetorrentsource.org
I was an amethyst member on Aradi and always active in irc when online. Can you say the same about these other sites who are just here to gather the spoils like nothing more than carrion?
Aradi was one of the best, community, quality and speed speed speed!!!
Where are all the members to go now??
Its a sad sad day in cyberspace!
Sheeeeet, thats the worse news i have had in a long time, looks like its dididave and demonoid……..another one bites the dust!!
Hello My Fellow people!
Sad Tears as i read all the posts!
tears pain ripped my heart out!
Please if you need help !!
Or What ever it takes Bring Back
ARADI TRACKER !!
It was my home!& what kept me sane in this Messed Up Earth!
I will Pray Tonight and Every night for the return of aradi tracker!!
I only ever dealt with aradi tracker since the early days but i need help? to find all the aradians again !
And a site with awsome speed!! :o(
Rip aradi !! NOO!! :o( Never!!
Remember !! This !!
The may have won the battle!!
but we will win the War!!
take care all !!
What Now?
i think Hackers Need to Send these Politicians a message!!:O)
agreed!!!
I feel like an abandoned child!
will miss greatly…
Oh rest assured it will return. Different name, different IP, different host, same content. You just gotta look for it!
Whist
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
I’ve got a suggestion to all dedicated Aradi members: Trust your staff! YES, it’s a kind gesture for other sites to open up and welcome us, but, by now, all hardcore Aradi-addicts know who they can trust. This is going to be a tough time to work through, but, as Jebus says, keep in tune to Aradi’s own ShortBus site and TPG as was also mentioned, and patiently await the suggestions of our trustworthy Staff to take care of our future. We all know they care enough about us to steer us in the right directions. Until then, God Bless all my Family of Friends from Aradi. May Radi’s visions of a close-knit family site live on forever more. :)
I have another suggestion , all those sites feeding off this … dont you think that “those powers” read this forum/blog? Here you are plastering your addy all over the place , come join here. Well be careful what you wish for .
yeah i agree there with you cherwonk, too many ppl wish away..and often end up stabbing themselfs in the toe..
RIP Aradi
i agree but those sites are only offering us away of some to stick by each other in this our hour of need once the aradi staff find or start another site if not you know where to find us i for 1 will be awaiting for 1 or 2 staff to contact us all via 1 of these sites that has opened a place for all of us ok its at a time where aradi has fallen but atleast you know where to find us stop knocking them please help them to help us stay together i miss you all i loved site but a temporary place has been handed to us all & i for 1 thank them for this so should you all im with those monkeys they will help aradi staff in our hour of need !!!
Dididave has been down for about 24 hours now, site and tracker… Is that dead too?
Clearly those losers couldn’t keep Araditracker running with less than 80% donations. There has been no legal action.
aradi was the best..wont ever be one like it…its bs that they shut it down…noreason for thisshit
“114 Aug 30, 2008 at 20:15 by Anonymous
Clearly those losers couldn’t keep Araditracker running with less than 80% donations. There has been no legal action.”
idiot.
Please do not spam or post any links to other sites here ,not Cool to name drop either
Thanks
@117
Nobody is name dropping, and what does it matter if they do? The site that is the subject of this thread is gone and as best I can tell, this site isn’t a tracker- it’s a weblog. So it doesn’t matter how many different torrent sites are mentioned, that’s kinda the point…
aradi sucked not hard to get into at all was a n00b site so i wont miss it
took advantage of AL got 10gig to start cheers
IRC: irc.bend.me.uk and join #loungers
Araditracker is the first private tracker community I signed up for . It was a nice site with a friendly staff . We will all miss you ,Aradi .
will miss all a aradi r.i.p
” 119 Aug 30, 2008 at 23:56 by cool
aradi sucked not hard to get into at all was a n00b site so i wont miss it”
Another nublet who couldn’t seed.
Get a life!
wow you dont know best site in the world dont let them win software is an art should be shared by everyone
FUCK MONEY
“Give DDT aka “DIDIDave” a go” LOL there staff are full of tits, one of the worst sites out there… money grabbing tossers
shame what i real shame, i still have acetorrents and ftn so im happy but ofc sad aradi was shut, enjoyed that site, rip!
Im absolutly gutted, i loved this site! Fuck, anyone no of any simlar sites that work like it did?
Ummm lol
there staff are full of tits, one of the worst sites out there… money grabbing tossers
Strange how DDT are one of the longest running trackers on the net ?
They also operate under one of the toughest public signup’s of any site and yet even after so many years they are still going strong and have a great following from there membership.
DDT also are one of the only sites to have stood up to the MP@@ after there shut down notices.
Maybe hidden1000 is one of the many users DDT classes as a Reject and bans from his site and is why he has such negitive feeling towards dididave.com
gutted i loved aradi tracker as long as you seeded you were fine all downloads were fast and high quality please please is there anything similar out there, with aradi gone i feel ive lost a mate i will miss listning to there radio while i browse the files…
im with what gandalf said on page 1
truesly to be missed part of my everyday downloading was at aradi
iv just had to delete 2 TB of torrents i was seeding
but i reckon they will return just as demonoid did :O)
Strange how this hits me so hard lol – but I miss it greatly. I didn’t download all the time, but there were some class releases on there, good friendly attitudes – just magic.
About time that crap site got shut down.
to all you aradi refugees i did find this tracker http://bitsoup.org/ nearly as good dl speeds nearly the same quality of releases and if u miss aradi radio go onto mirc there all there all the power pepole of aradi long may it rest in greatness
try get in to tophos.org, they have the fastest warez, movies….
the admins upload em themselves and you can make a request to them
i mean the second it pre’s, they have it.
and its an american site.
its so leet. and the best thing is the riaa and the mpaa dont know about it at all.THATS TOPHOS.ORG
ALL UR TORRENT NEEDS, SCENE TORRENTS.
I HEARD ADMIN JOKE THAT THEY PUT OUT 50 % OF ALL TORRENTS!
Honestly, about 2 months ago I found a better site than Aradi… The uploaders are fast as hell. The only problem is keeping up with seeding because there aren’t enough peers.
torrentvault.org
I hate to say it, but other than Aradi having signature 2bros releases, this site is better.
But I was attached to raditracker…
ahhhhh well
Def one of the best sites with great staff and plenty of info with each release,i’ve yet to find a tracker thats as well laid out !!
Big loss
It will be sadly missed by everyone to all the losers saying that it was a crap site get a life you probably are so used to public sites that you could not learn how to seed and avoid the shitlist .
All the Other sites offering signups wow gee thx but you will never be aradi so i will pass .
To My friends and family I say this
THE ARADI FAMILY IS ALIVE AND WELL !!!!!
Now fuck off and let me get back to knightfight ;-)
Rest in peace Araditracker…Aradi is still here…site might be gone but our spirit is still abound….most haters were shitlisters and sorry loser leechers…viva Aradi family..see ya in IRC and shortbus cult…as Evil_scotsman put it..Now fuck off and let me get back to knightfight ;-)
The best site I’ve ever had the pleasure to be with.
The comunity will live long after the bad comments and their posters have been dumped into the shitlist of here and everywhere else.
/me gives the Evil_scotsman free reign of my sheep herd
AT will always live on!! One form or another, we still have IRC channel and Jeebs shortbuscult :) Damn, but I will miss the forums though :(
All the Other sites offering signups wow gee thx but you will never be aradi so i will pass .
Give me a break
Yes aradi was one of a kind, but Im going to move on and find a new home
Like everyone else should do
Mr. #134 poster Sep 01, 2008 at 17:25 by Anonymous,
You obviously were not a dedicated member of the site, or you wouldn’t have given up and quit on the site so easily.
sorry to see araditracker go down, it was one of the best sites and the most reliable.
gumbanator has it right…been a member of Aradi & BitSoup since 2005, bitsoup is best bet for replacing Aradi to get your torrents(BitSoup was my personal #2 tracker, now promoted to #1)
Mr. 136 Sep 01, 2008 at 18:26 by Anonymous
Site is gone !!! Its not going to be back. WTF you think is the best thing to do ??? Tell me. I would love to hear what your idea is.
#139
Go to aradichat and hangout. Wait and see what happens. the radio is still up too.
The radio is still going too, Araditracker as a torrent site will surely be missed by all those who were loyal, including myself, but the IRC and the Radio live on – the IRC channel is #araditracker under http://www.foreverchat.net/chat.php, just ask in there for the radio link! :)
Long live the Aradians and To hell with all you hit-n-run leechers!!!
A final screenshot screen shot picture of the Arditracker Ardi Tracker homepage home page 9-1-08.
http://i36.tinypic.com/1ig84w.png
Save it to your harddrive somewhere. Never forget.
I doubt the Aradi Tracker will be back. He was arrested in Belfast with equipment and money seized.
see here for news report about it:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0829/breaking39.htm
this is a real shame. was my number 1 site!! RIP Araditracker
FUCK, that sucks balls man I loved that site, shit anyone else find any good ones please share.
It operated for over four years in the three years and a couple months that have passed since May of 2005? Wow, now that’s a real feat!
Who cares Araditracker sucked just like that pay2leech scum site TorrentLeech.
Fuck w00t + NEO!
https://feedthe.net FTW!
some great other sites out there….
GTi forever!
great site , hope that he’s not in any real trouble .
there are sites outthere that are wayy
yyyyyy better. good luck!
With a better community?
Name one….
To all the haters…I don’t even know where to start and your not worth my breath. To all of my Aradi family…keep the faith and come to shortbuscult.com and you can find a few places where we are hanging out. Anyone who can say that Aradi was money hungry are out of their damn minds…it was an advert free site and a porn free site. Did everything to make the server costs every month…and a lot of times I know it came out of pocket when donations were not enough to make server costs. Some of the comments on this thread make me sick to my stomach. To all my Aradi family and former members who made it the place that it was…my personal THANX!:) We may be down…but we are not out!
LoB
should definitely check out
http://TehConnection.eu
This is the line, why can’t these antipirate a**’s just give in? they are screwing themselves by pissing off a following as loyal and broad as Aradi’s.
God bless ARADITRACKER! Down with the ANTITRACKERS!!!
I will hold out hope that aradi survives as a forum at least, I would be so depressed if I had to get help from someone who wasn’t as competent as the Aradi team.
As a silver member of Aradi – this SUXS!!
I just hope Radi does not get screwed by the BREIN batards.
We will return, in some way, shape or form, it may not be called Araditracker, but you will know it is us, you know where to find the community, stay away from the ambulance chasers trying to poach you, offering gigs etc…just Ride the Bus, you will know what to do next…which sites we are REALLY on, don’t make the fatal mistake of join a lamer site just cause they say *all* of us are on there…AT Members will know who this is!
Your Messiah
Sad, stupid brein :*(
R.I.P. Aradi
Was with u along time.
Hope you rise from the Brein flames, like a phoenix Radi
Araditracker will be missed :(
mannn, i wz plannin on joinin this site, today i open up the page.. and hey presto, itz GONE!!
i have been a member from early on.I feel like someone in my family has died.what a bummer this is.the best site and admins on the internet and radi was a great guy.
ive been a member there since probably sometime in 05 i believe. Sad to see you go, you were my number one source for movies, hopefully nothing serious comes from whatever legal battles you guys fight and you come out on top. ARADI FTW
anyways
join thesharingzone.net, new site, old BCG admins, taking it to a whole new level, we just need more peers to seed and help the site grow. We strive on becoming one of the next top bt community.
I’ll miss it, was member almost since it started.
I’m gutted the site has closed down :( I’ve been a member for the past 3yrs and that site was the only one I trusted for torrents, what you see is what you get.
But, did anyone else notice the campaign for donations just before the site closed? It was a massive push. looking back, it was like they were raking in as much cash as they could before they killed the site off.
Even if they knew that the site was going to close bills are still comming in for the website.
Donations had dropped off, probably because of the credit crunch, who knows?
I dunno how much people think the servers cost but its very expensive. As sites grow, the servers get hammered so better more expensive servers are required to keep up with the demand. Bandwidth isnt free.
“Owning” a torrent tracker site is like owning a football team, you put the money in but you dont make a profit.
From what Ive heard, because the donations were down, the owners were looking at downgrading the servers in line with the last few months income from donations.
Im quite sure Radi isnt hiding in Brazil living the life of a mega rich playboy all on the back of a torrent tracker.
Get real people, the drive for donations was to keep the site at the top, not to pay for Radis Ferrari thirst.
Having been an on and off leeching member for 2.5 years, I can’t really confirm a “massive push” for donations towards the end. The tracker always relied on member donations to keep it up, obviously because it needs a substantial amount of money to keep a community that size going with an (almost) ad free site. Who do you think is gonna pay for that?
So there’s always been that call once or twice a month but little else up to the very end. No idea how ppl come to think there might have been a ripoff, it’s clearly nonsense.
Oh it’s a shame..really good tracker.I knew about it today!:(
yes great site and great stuff will miss.
you can go on all you like about these other sites, but one thing will never be truer, aradi was the best hands down.
they searched the net, high, and low for the best of everything. doing there best to put one copy of one version down, to bring the best quality movies, programs, books, etc.
Plus they had beliefs, no porn, no bullshit adds, it was by the people, for the people!
and sayin other sites are better, give me a break, notice how its always fallowed by “but theres not enough peers/seeders, low blah blah blah” along with a dozen other excuses about there downfalls, well how about this, you don’t hear any downfalls about aradi do you? no i didn’t think so!
unless its of course from the losers who weren’t smart enough to fallow the rules, and got booted off the site for the kind of immature comments they made in this forum alone.
and sayin 1000s of former aradi’s are on one site, or another, is purely propoganda, vultures trying to prey on the homeless aradis forced out on the street cause of some shithead million/billionare sitting in a hot tub on some foreign island soakin up all the funds from overpriced movie tickets at the box office, of which half the time are from movies not worth the price.
did they ever think, that if MAYBE the prices weren’t so ridiculously high for 99% of the shit they provide us with, that MAYBE we wouldnt need torrent sites in the first place? like HELLO!
plus other sites put a dozen copies of the same movie up. trying to find the best copy of a movie is like cutting out your own testicles with a butter knife, pure utter torture.
Lets face it, at aradi, you always got the best quality, and as soon as something was out on the net, WHAM, it was there on aradi, and you’d never see the same version of a movie, a dozen times over. its there once, and the only time its there twice is if its a repack version, cause the origionals sound was out of sync type thing, thats it.
name another site that puts as much effort into doing the same?
plus if you had a problem, or an issue on something, needed some kind of help, they were there with all the answers tryin there best to do what they could for you.
also bitsoup aint it, CLOSE but no cigar, ive been on there as long as ive been on aradi, and Isohunt isnt a bad site, BUT won’t be around long, its up and running until the lawyers finally win the battle with them, which is only a matter of time.
and neither come close to anything aradi PERIOD.
isohunt in which case members will be lucky if they dont get put into jail, but thats beside the point.
get on the bus wih Jebus if anything, if aradi is going to come back in some form or another, or if the Mesiah guy is whoever or not, atleast with jebus we might have a heads up with it anyways.
much love in either case from a former aradi member, now homeless, starvin, dinning in the dumpsters of other torrent sites, trying to feed a hunger that only one site has ever fulfilled.
R.I.P. Aradi!
aradi could not of been the only site on the net with any certain file you ignorant pirate if a file is uploaded on 1 site it will find its way down to others via other torrent sites or news groups as for quality they had cams the same as all the other sites which to be fair are not good enough for you to watch properly any way i would like to believe that a majority of illegal downloads actually download these movies with intending on watching them in the theatres after!! if they like or enjoyed what they saw as for you saying its propaganda saying 1000’s of users from aradi are all on 1 site or another must either mean your not using that site where they have all ended up to stay in touch or you didn’t even know any of the other users who used it?? or even maybe they are all together but you wasn’t told about it for 1 reason or another think about it
I’m the ignorant pirate, and half of what you said is the best you could come up with, riiiight.
one has protested abit to much i think.
apparently you can’t read much either.
plus if you’re so anti-torrentz, why be in a forum about torrents, do you not have that much of a life? I never post on anything, but i felt the need to here, because aradi was something i cared about{like i did napster before metallica ruined it}, which is rare, what the heck is your excuse?
technically YOUR -ignorant- post in the first place doesnt even deserve a responce, but i’ll do it just this ONE time.
and i think i hit a nerve with someone apparently. lol
i never said i couldnt find files, the gist of what i said was its harder to find good quality, when certain vers of a movie or otherwise is put on a site, the exact same source a dozen times over,{weither its repacked or otherwise, you can only polish crap so much, it’ll still stink the quality in the end regardless} renamed a dozen times over, and sayin that aradi only put one source per-version that came out, unless of course it was out of sync, in which case they put the in-sync vers out.
LIKE hello, also i said to go with jebus, which is the best way currently to keep up on the current news about aradi{out of anything i read here}, and various other things you apparently didnt read all the way through before making a half assed comment on a post put out. but yet i was the ignorant one? riiight.
as for quality, considerin you can find dvd quality screeners sometimes of movies that come out, before the movie comes out in theatres, on the day of, or shortly weeks after, and or vers that are close too, considering the quality of video camera’s have come a -long- way that past few years, i think in some cases you can watch them quite properly.
sure SOMETIMES it takes awhile to get good quality, but not always…i find compared to years ago, theres a big differance…more good, then bad, as compared to more bad then good.
plus i honestly depending on what movies are out, sometimes of which alot of good movies come out at once, or sometimes once a month, or every few weeks, and if cash is available, i will go see said movie in theatre, in some cases sometimes as much as one or two times a week{since i like watching movies} per to my opinion of what i think a good movie is, however if a movie to me doesn’t seem worth paying more then 8-10$, or paying for at all for that matter, cause some movies are just not worth a dime in my opinion, why would i want to pay to go see it.{or see it at all sometimes for that matter}
MOST people i’d like to think, go to see the movies they’ve been waiting for to come out in theatre, and for all the others, more then likely download them thinking they probally wouldn’t like them as much, or think that whatever such movie isn’t worth paying to see, compared to other movies of which they were waiting for.
or in some cases they can’t afford to go see said movie of which they really want to see, so therefor they have to result in seeing it in whatever form they can, good or bad off the internet. no matter what site its from, what quality, or otherwise.
THAT being said, sometimes piracy can result in good things for the industry, becaue SOMETIMES that movie they thought wouldn’t be worth paying for -actually- turns out to be pretty damn good, and they go to see said movie in theatre, and or wait for said movie to come out on DVD, and buy it boosting DVD sales more then they normally would have been, in which case produces more good then bad, making the movie industry more money, considering a DVD is worth more then a theatre ticket, but said industry morons, don’t like to think on those things.
PLUS you never even said anything against anything else i said in my last post, only the propoganda part, -trying- to make me look like a loser left out of the fold, in which case i guess everything else i said was true, since you never contradicted it, or had a comeback for it, and then made a half assed comment about not being able to find a file, when i never said i COULDN’T find files.
like seriously? come on now. lol if you’re going to give someone intellectual banter/protest about something, atleast pay attention for one, and two put a little effort into it.
and yea i might not be the greatest speller at times, never said i was, but atleast people with brains can figure it out, decipher it, understand it, and what have you.
if you’re going to try, and pick on someone, don’t pick on someone much bigger then you in the IQ department, or anyone with the ability to win debates/argue a good point.
so stop being an a$$ when someone gives there opinion on something they love, when i wasn’t trying to take advantage of anyone like certain people trying with whatever sites, nor attack anyone specifically like you did to me, when i was merely stating what aradi had offered, and how in most cases, IF not all, other sites didn’t go through such efforts.
and until if ever i find a such that goes through that kind of effort for its users, and that has that great of a community to be apart of, i’m probally not going to make a comment on it.
so as a white man trying to be black might say “peace out g-money, get down with your hommies, and don’t be disrespecting, we don’t like haters. fo’shizzle, my nizzle” -baseball hat sideways, folds arms across chest, with his head slanted downwards to the side- “WORD”
“In Like Flint, and Out Like Elvis” copyrighted.
R.I.P. ARADI!!
I largely agree man. That rebuttal of his was just too lame. It’s not only about what gets upped when, there are many other factors which distinguish the quality site.
First, of the 10 encodings of some flick floating around the net they usually tried to bring you the best one.
Next, upload speeds usually were darn great, and they made sure uppers had proper pipes.
Then, torrent descriptions were detailed and informative. You could see at a glance what the encoding params and the content were without digging the shit out on other sites.
Finally, staff was helpful. Even exotic requests were filled, and with quality material.
I’ve been looking around these days and checking those sites who claim to offer a new home to Aradians. Well, they don’t. The best I could say about some are that they are poor in many of the respects mentioned above. Most of them are utterly disgustable crap tho. RIP Aradi.
Anybody know what’s goin on with TTS? I became a member after Aradi shutdown based on things I read in this article. I noticed all of my seeds were stalled and when I tried to log into the site, I couldn’t pull it up. Been trying for about 5 hours and no luck. Anybody hear anything bout this?
Well i was a devoted member ,but i found a new home and quite a few of us are there now,the staff is very friendly and eager to help,also fast dls and new releases so i am happy RIP Aradi.. http://www.spank-d-monkey.net
Sad to see it went down, as time goes on though looking back it was a great run. All good things come to an end in order for new things to arise. I am glad that I did my part in being a member of the site and helping were I could and helping fill hard to find requests from our members. Who knows something may come out of this later on. You know were to find me if you were ever in irc.
Gouken
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