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BitTorrent Crackdown: Police Raid Private Tracker, Others Shut Down

Anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån is making good on its threats to take file-sharing sites offline in Sweden. During the last 48 hours, police in Sweden and the Netherlands swooped on key staff and hardware connected to a long-standing private BitTorrent tracker. As yet another popular eBook site closes, famous tracker Scene Access is being warned – you’re next.

Following the announcement this month that Sweden’s Supreme Court would not be hearing an appeal of the Pirate Bay trial, entertainment industry lawyers warned that file-sharing sites in Sweden were living on borrowed time. All 150 sites with Swedish connections were advised to shut down – or else.

For Swepiracy, a private BitTorrent tracker founded in 2006, it’s now too late. On Thursday, police in Sweden and the Netherlands swooped on the 30,000 member site after it was accused by the authorities of being one of the most important locations when it comes to illegally distributing Swedish films.

Anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån said that the tracker’s operators had ignored warnings to close down and instead took measures to protect themselves. The site’s servers were in the Netherlands, but police there assisted their Swedish counterparts and took the site down.

This is not the first time that Swepiracy has been taken offline. Following a similar torrent site crackdown following the “guilty” verdict in the Pirate Bay trial in April 2009, Swepiracy disappeared for a few weeks, but reappeared before the month was out.

Now, Antipiratbyrån say they will take the operators of Swepiracy to court and seek damages “according to The Pirate Bay model.” They also warn that other sites – including The Internationals (which was recently closed down only to later reappear) and famous private tracker Scene Access – are next if they don’t comply.

Also this week, police in Gothenburg carried out a raid against an individual they say is suspected of widespread file-sharing on The Pirate Bay and another local site, Shareitall. The man denied the charges and was subsequently released.

Other Swedish-based sites have already had enough. This week the admins of eBook-focused site Bibliotik.org closed down the site of their own free will.

“Bibliotik has shutdown all operations. We are no longer able to assume the risks involved. The staff would like to apologize for the sudden (but necessary) decision and thank everyone that participated and made Bibliotik such a great place for so long. We love you guys!” they said in an announcement.

Earlier this week, Sweden’s number 2 torrent site Tankafetast shut down after its operators decided that enough was enough. At the time, Antipiratbyran confirmed they had threatened the site with legal action. However, just days later, the site has changed owners and is now back online.

Update March 1st: Bibliotik say they are moving to a new datacenter and will soon be back online

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  • Mig

    Fist!

    • Guest

      Knobhead.

  • Gg

    fook its over

    • Yggdh

      It will never be over! Piracy will continue. For ever.

      • O’lay Pirate

        Even when we’re at a nuclear war… piracy will still be living strong! m/

        • anonymous

          heck, in the underground bunkers, we’ll all have a box full of pirated shit
          to entertain us while the bombs drop :)

    • Guest

      lollll they wish …. the only things the trackers owner need to do is to move their server elsewhere …. hide themself and other trick like that AND VOILA safe again for a other year or so then move again wait a year or 2 move again …. this will never stop

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

        I know that primary p2p traffic is abusive on things like the TOR network but stuff like tracker access should be ok.

        To hide a private tracker just put it on a TOR node and members of that torrent group use TOR to access the tracker thus hiding it’s IP address.

        As tracker addresses are specified as URLs, a .onion address should be able to pass through a unmodified torrent client yet be trapped by your Tor software.

        TOR use would not be to hide the sharers but to hide the tracker and possibly the torrent site.

        • tfreaker

          If the tracker runs on tor, how exactly will it return peerlists containing the real world ipv4 addresses of the members of the swarm? All the actual data transfer must take place on TOR too (which is out of the question).

        • http://p5.myopenid.com/ P5

          @tfreaker (can’t reply directly)
          The intention is to hide the tracker itself. The clients will not be anonymous, but the tracker could not be traced with the method it is being done with now.

        • dkdkdk

          @tfreaker

          You have the client specify the real-world IPv4 address within the announce string.

        • tfreaker

          @P5: Yes, I understand that and tor would work just fine for that purpose. The problem is translating peers on the TOR network to peers on the actual internet, the tracker doesn’t really have any way of knowing the internet address of the peer, unless the peer states it explicitly somehow.

          @dkdkdk: That would work, but I don’t know how feasible that would be. Will each peer manually have to add their IP to the announce? What if you’re seeding hundreds of torrents and your IP changes? Basically it would probably need a custom torrent client (and dropping support for all the major clients isn’t a very good idea imo).

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Dilly/1624894683 Don Dilly

          @dkdkdk
          It would work just fine.
          You are forgetting that all the bittorrent clients are communicating in the clear using ip4/6 addressing.

          The TOR network softwarecan be selective and can be used just to route urls with a ‘.onion’ TLD. the peer address exchanges between you and the tracker on the tor network would be normal ip addresses.

          Data transfers to non .onion TLDs would not be intercepted by your TOR software. It would inspect the address and let it through normally

        • dkdkdk

          @tfreaker

          Some clients, like µTorrent, incorporate use of the “ip=” field (a part of the BitTorrent tracker specification) that identifies the real IPv4 address of the peer even if the tracker connections are proxied. To disable this a user needs to tick the “Disable features that leak identifying information” button in the client, or you have the option to spoof it instead using the “IP/Hostname to report to tracker” field.

          Clients that don’t incorporate that field won’t be able to inform the .onion tracker of the real IPv4 IP, I don’t think (actually not 100% sure of this – bit rusty here;). The tracker will instead assume the IP address to be that of the node it received the packet from.

          @Don Dilly

          You probably right in that I’m forgetting something – it’s been a while here since I played with this kinda setup.

        • dkdkdk

          @tfreaker

          Correction – Tested it out here; µTorrent no longer includes the “ip=” field by default in the announce string (at least in the 2.2 client I tested it with), so it looks like BitTorrent Inc. decided to change that at some point throughout the versions (probably somewhere between 1.81-2.2). This means that for a µTorrent user to specify the correct IPv4 address for the .onion tracker it’d need manually configuring via the “IP/Hostname to report to tracker” field, whereas older versions of the client would include the real IPv4 address by default if not user-specified.

          The “Disable features that leak identifying information” option presumably is now limited to only disabling the user-specified “IP/Hostname to report to tracker” field if configured as opposed to earlier versions where this would also disable use of the “ip=” tracker option.

          Hope you enjoy getting your head around that. ;)

    • http://travismccrea.com Travis McCrea

      It’s not over, my organization has reached out to many torrent sites and cyberlockers to inform them that we would be willing to acquire them, and keep their sites online.
      We have already made this agreement with tuebl.com, tormovies.org, and a major (porn) torrent site that shut down last month…we just have to sign the agreement and we can announce that one.

      Patriots of the Digital Revolution will acquire any torrent or cyberlocker website that is looking to shut down. We don’t do it for the profit, we are doing it to keep these cultural icons online.

      If anyone knows a filesharing site that is shutting down due to legal pressure, please have them email me@travismccrea.com we will ensure their site stays up and they are no longer in a legal situation.

      • Anonymous

        How/why are you safe? Where/how can someone learn about you and your org? My favorite site just voluntarily shut and is looking for servers.

        • http://travismccrea.com Travis McCrea

          We are not a non-profit organization… we are, however, a small group of people who do operate things without an effort to make a profit. The money we make goes into making our infrastructure better and providing better services to our users.

          We are never really “safe” the beauty is that I speak as the head of the organization, but there are a team of people behind me ready to pick up if I am ever arrested, and we have an array of servers spanning multiple countries that makes a seizure of our equipment very unlikely.

          you can go to http://digitalpatriots.org to get a basic outline of who we are/what we do. You can also contact me (me@travismccrea.com) and I can discuss things with you further. :)

  • http://twitter.com/ahm Avery

    Antipiratbyrån is running scared from the Swedish Pirate Party

  • OutrageMcMurderspree

    Torrentfreak would do well to STFU about SCC.

    • SurroundedByTards

      You think Antipiratbyrån doesn’t already know about SCC? Hah.

      • OutrageMcMurderspree

        I think a lot of cunts on here didn’t know it.
        Reporters wouldn’t have.
        TF is huge. Regularly see BBC articles referring to here.
        Of course Antipiratbyran knew.
        Those cock smokers are invested.
        Could have had some fucking respect for the site.
        Now even my granny knows the domain/acronym.

        Considering the guys filtered Sony’s access keys from the comments, it’s fucked

        • SurroundedByTards

          What does it matter if the larger public learns about it? The site is invitation-only, so they can’t get in anyhow.

        • Anon

          If I can get an invite there any time I wish, so can they. Its not too hard to find sources.

        • Abunchofgibberish

          Raising awareness of the site means people know about it that shouldn’t. It’s like posting a list of all the drug dealers in town on the web and emailing the link to every cop in the nation.

        • Asdf

          What a fair and balanced comparison.

      • Anonymous
    • Derp

      Don’t be such a baby. People all feel so awesome about private trackers, but really it’s so contrary to what sharing culture stands for. It’s better if eventually there are no trackers at all. It’s more resilient and more accessible that way.

      • djnforce9

        I don’t think it’s contrary at all. There is still “sharing” happening there as well. What it DOES ensure is that every single member contributes and does not leech or take advantage of their fellow community members (hence ratio rules). It also puts a stop to fakes and virus ridden uploads thanks to a moderation team having a “managable” amount of content to sift through. Lastly, it’s “less likely” (although not impossible as this case proves) to be shut down because because the industry officials can’t just hop in there and see what’s up for download and no administrator in their right mind will let them in willingly.

        • ID=?

          They have accounts at all those sites of any significance. Don’t fool yourself into thinking they can’t and don’t operate just as any other user does in order to gain access.

        • Abunchofgibberish

          ID=?, I flagged your comment as inappropriate because I couldn’t find the “Flag as tinfoil hat” button.

        • ID=?

          @Abunchofgibberish

          You’re obviously new to this game.

        • Guest

          @ID=?

          All they have to do is to ask email providers for registrations at private trackers or just sniff passwords directly from ISP providers (they don’t care if it’s illegal). All those private trackers should force users to use HTTPS…

      • Abunchofgibberish

        If you think that private trackers are bad for some reason, you know nothing about file formats, and have probably never actually taken the time to properly encode music, movies, or any other content. Private trackers filter out the chav scum that upload mp3s that started out at 64k and were up-converted to 320 and such.

    • ComposureMcSanityspree

      Why? Is someone going to fling jizz on them from their jail cell?

      It’s too late, dude. They’re gone. When the corpse is laying in the street, it’s okay to talk about it.

      • http://www.facebook.com/ValhallaLegend Andrew Lee

        Ahah! “In the voice of Roberto” “The crazy robot from Futurama”

      • Deadhydra

        One goes down, a hundred more pop up.

        Or, more likely, lots more shut so they don’t end up in pound-me-in-the-azz prison.

        Whoops. Reality sux, huh?

        • Glib

          Thankfully, the tiny sites are plenty; I really don’t need TPB sized torrent sites. Maybe the days of mega-giants is coming to an end (though slowly, as TPB seems to be ignored lately for some reason), the tinier sites will always track popular content which is what most people want. The “niche” stuff (mostly music, for now) will always have larger content and larger communities.

          Maybe the “hydra” isn’t a 1 for 1 anymore (though, it pretty much is), I think it’s more of an adjustment from the maniacally large sites are being culled to allow for smaller, more portable options.

    • http://www.facebook.com/orphicdragon Trisha Lynn Dragon

      Thank you for stopping by to give us our daily dose of moronic douche canoe. Your work here is done.

      • Asdf

        FUS ROH DAH to you

    • RIAAtarded

      What a dumb statement, the ones you don’t want knowing about the site already do and are actively targeting them. So we can not mention it here and leave everyone in the dark or read the article and become informed to better protect ourselves. Now you can stick your head in the sand if you like but I prefer to be educated.

    • Anonymous

      You can find out all you need to know by googling “SCC” and “piracy” because the threats have made the media (globally). Just sayin’!

    • Anonymous

      Everybody you don’t want to know about ‘private’ trackers already do. The whole term ‘private tracker’ is a misnomer anyway. They’re not private. You have to provide info to them, they log your activity. How is that private? It’s not and never has been, that’s why they’re the easy target for raids.

  • me

    Good for the Swedish Pirate Party: the more sites Antipiratbyran closes, the more support for the Swedish PP.

    • Anonymous

      Not Bibliotik…..anything but bibliotik! :(

      People have no idea how much help bibliotik gives…. :(

  • Anonymous

    now tell me that this shit is going to stop! it isn’t! and it’s all because of the totally biased, pre-trial outcome of TPB case. the Antipiratbyrån got away with that and are now hell-for-leather after every other site on the net that they can go after. this is going to continue until there is no way of sharing anything except what the entertainment industries ‘allow’. all rulings that come from the EU are being totally ignored by whichever country wants to. i dont blame any site for shutting down. the risks are getting ridiculous. however, these anti-pirate agencies need reining in and the only way for that to happen is in court. the Mega case is going to be delayed as long as possible, intentionally, because the US are worried that a precedent is set if they lose. imagine if every file sharing site was ordered to shut down. all that would achieve is to drive everything underground. but that shouldn’t have to be the case! has any country bothered to check how much money they are spending on this? i’ll bet it’s a lot more than the entertainment industries made up losses, even if they were true!

    • me

      “this is going to continue until there is no way of sharing anything except what the entertainment industries ‘allow’. ”

      This is going to continue, until we filesharers switch to a completely decentralized anonymous P2P network (a la Freenet maybe?). Until then, MAFIAA will continue to go after the easy targets: the highly visible choke points of the net, i.e. the centralized sharing sites.

      From a pure technical point of view, considering resilience to censorship, we already had eMule… then we moved back to bittorrent with its central tracker because it was faster. But we’ve traded uncensorable access with speed. Then we moved from bittorrent to cyberlockers, because it was faster and more secure (?). But again, we’ve traded decentralization for speed.

      Now, the filesharing scene is feeling the heat because it moved too far towards centralized choking points. Time to adapt and move back towards decentralized networks.

      • Abunchofgibberish

        I’m tired of seeing this argument. The “filesharers” are a relatively small group of people, and 99% of them wouldn’t do anything to change it but sign some online petitions. When you find a way to get a bunch of pirate nerds together and go out and do some manual effing labor to build the physical infrastructure for this “new internet” everyone keeps wishing blindly for, let me know. Also, good luck getting the capital to make it possible. Oh yeah, and by the point in time that anyone can subscribe to and use it, it’ll be controlled by the FCC in the USA, or another equivalent group in other parts of the world, and we’ll be right back where we started, just a few billions of dollars poorer as a collective.

        • someone_else

          WTF are you going on about? Have you never heard of decentralised file-sharing networks? BitTorrent suffers centralised aspects that make it vulnerable to being shut down, hence the entire point of this article.

        • Asdf

          And you, have you ever heard of ISPs?

        • Anonymous

          Abunchofgibberish, you are a tool And have chosen a perfect name for yerself.

      • 2e4t_

        or tribler? as the saying goes, necessity is a mother. take down every napster/megaupload/piratebay/whatever out there and you just drive more people to work on the next iteration.

    • PigScum

      The only way it will stop is when we start defending ourselves with force. Do not bow down to law enforcement.

      • Konstant

        What’s the motto of “this” revolution?
        “I want my Katy Perry.mp3″
        “Let me be the freeloading consuming bitch of US Media”

        Just asking. In relevance of the Arab spring you should have your arguments straight when starting to hit people by this revolution.

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          More like, I want to be able to share the culture that, by and large, I have already paid for with my family and friends.

        • Anonymous

          “get the fuck out of my internet”

      • Tom

        @Christopher Kidwell
        I want to share culture… hahahaha. Wait were you serious?

  • Greaterg

    scc wtf .

    This is hellish that fst is talking about this f

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000617943487 Máté Bikfalvi

    Why do we need SOPA/PIPA/ACTA again? It’s seems they can pretty much take anything offline now if they want to anyway.

    • 1a

      That, and have any citizen of any country arrested and extradited from anywhere on earth on the orders of a few corporate execs and their lawyers. Now the whole world is “the land of the free”!

      • Anonymous

        “the land of the free” = prison planet

  • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

    The USA has opened Pandora’s Box of MAFIAA.org tricks in their futile attempt to destroy all hope that our freedom of access to culture in Europe is snuffed out for ever.

    Well that just aint gonna happen guys because the USA’s MAFIAA.org does NOT own all media nor does it control our future. These temporary setbacks in an inevitable World of freedom to share digital information freely with each other SHALL PREVAIL regardless of cost financially.

    This fascist attempt by the so-called “content industry” to stop people engaging in sharing our culture, our thoughts and our TRUE value by connecting with each other freely and openly is nothing other than a shameful CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and MUST be stopped NOW!!!

    We have the tech, but you have only bought the laws. Morality and ethics are on OUR side.

    R.I.P. MAFIAA.org because you’ve failed to adapt to 21st Century technology and modern societal expectations. So STFU, Requiescat In Pace and leave us in peace too so we can innovate, create and spread our knowledge & experience to further human development.

    We and the artistes simply don’t NEED you any more!
    But thanks for showing us the way ;)

    • johnnyrubbishnick

      -1 ott, stupid

      • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

        If my post was Over The Top, who’s “top” would that be please?

        If anyone in this War declared against all Humanity by the CopyWrong Cartel is OTT it’s these profiteering pimps who keep trying to entrap our cultural genuises into unnecessary contractual whoredom whilst ripping-off their needy customers victims, ie you and I.

        So what exactly is YOUR objection Madam johnny?

      • Anonymous

        Gotta like the 3 thumbs ups you have, dude seriously stop cycling IPs to up your likes, it shows

    • jack murdock

      Poor baby. Now you have to pay for things. :(

      • 1ofmillions

        “Fascism should more appropriately be called ‘Corporatism’ because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” – Benito Mussolini

      • Anonymous

        Pay for Imaginary Property? no thanks.

      • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

        Yaaaayyyyyy, hopefully you’re “the real” Jack-Off Murdock and you’re back to stay with us here at TF. Coz we simply LOVE telling you to STFU and FUCK OFF Jack!!! lol

        As for paying – here’s how it works (or are you STILL incapable of reading and comprehending at the same time?)
        http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20120222/91144/Piracy_and_the_four_currencies.php

      • Danny

        Jackoff you cunt!

      • Anonymous

        No we don’t.

        As we’ve told you patiently, quite a few times before…trackers and even magnet link sites are simply redundant.

        This is like a single bus line breaking down and you going “Aww, now you have to take the stage coach instead” in a world where absolutely everyone owns a car.

  • Hater

    Antipiratbyrån be hatin

  • czech pirate

    In light of latest developments about ACTA and overall situation in sharing scene I am really looking forward to next elections in european states. What it would be in Sweden or Germany? 20% for Pirate parties? More dictatorship represents wider support for freedom fighters. And by far not only in digital world.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like the trackers are being targeted once again.
    When one gets shut down 3 pop up. Enjoy the exponential growth.

    • Darkwiz666

      Let’s see them try and shut down DHT… ):]

      • Anonymous

        I await the day these websites all become virtual sites hosted as a cloud service on the BT network.

        How can they then take down a site that only exists as connections between millions of people?

        • Bla

          The tracker is still centralized.

        • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

          Not with DHT, Bla.

        • Anonymous

          there is no need for a tracker anymore

        • Dududus

          How will you search??

        • Anonymous

          Tribler

    • Anonymous

      Here’s how to harden the network:

      * Set up some legal trackers, meaning they serve only legal-to-distribute stuff, and thus cannot be shut down. These serve as an entry point to the DHT and Peer Exchange networks. You need to find at least one peer to get into the network, and so some legal torrents will give you that.

      * Index sites like the Pirate Bay and BitSnoop have already done, as a list of magnet links and titles, with optional descriptions, photos, and comments appended. Turn those into “meta torrents”, where the torrent is just an index to other torrents.

      * Websites operate as a display of titles, file size, and comments, but no links whatsoever. They are merely commentary on the quality of the torrent. That should be safe from takedown, unless they remove freedom of speech entirely.
      Periodically comments get gathered into updates to the meta-torrents.

      * It would be nice if there was a torrent client that can maintain a database on your PC by hash value, and automatically collected updates and indexes and merged the latest data in.

      • Gatecrasher

        The source of the information that leads to the torrents is still linking and will still be regarded as ‘assisting copyright infringement’, so they’ll just attack the source, exactly as they do now.

        • Anonymous

          So the following would be infringement?

          Title: Smallville Season 1 – 10 + Extras DVDRip TSV
          Size: 77.0 GB
          Date: 20 Feb 2012
          Comment: Video 10/Audio 10, real deal, plenty of seeders

  • Anonymous

    This would be a VERY good time for people to go to their favorite trackers, both private and public, and start scraping. Go to the article here on TF and get the script for doing it. (http://torrentfreak.com/download-a-copy-of-the-pirate-bay-its-only-90-mb-120209/ )

    Then it won’t matter if they get shut down or not.

    • 4325

      Shit ain’t going anywhere, stop freaking out.

      • Darkwiz666

        It’s called “Safer then sorry”. Right now, people who are raging, are the sorry ones.

        • 4325

          “Better safe, than sorry”

          What’s the point in grabbing private .torrents if the trackers go down? Those places are about equivalent to DRM-locked content as far as future-proofing access goes, so fuck them. For public torrents, not much point grabbing them at this time as they’re spread far and wide by default, so are unlikely to be going anywhere in a hurry.

          And anyone raging is just learning the hard way.

  • Rekrul

    I wonder if these agencies and the entertainment industry in general, realize just how much people are starting to hate them.

    • CryMoar

      Sore loser? Maybe you should shape up…

      • Anonymous

        You should ship out.

  • Dmtry

    IM HAPPY now to live outside EU US , im livin in Russia and i know thieir acts ACTA and nobody can touch us , becouse Russia will never respect USA UE law trolls , they will never enter in my country without paying a lot price for that , in past me and people from here thinking dictatorship system present in my country is the worst and many people want to go in EU SUA becouse there is freedom , now i m happy to live here and i feel i m more free then EU SUA people , now i see USA and UE servants foolish people with their big lies about “freedom” “democracy” i see what US doing – start wars for getting profits killikg inocent people in the name of “democracy” and “freedom ” what big hypocrisy they scam people and offer just illusions about freedom justice etc ! they blame USSR China becouse of censorship , becouse regimes dont respect human rights and people dont have freedom but what the F..K US and their servants doing now ? how can call what they doing ? censorship …no freedom , no privacy …no human rights so theirs system is nightmare (based on manipulation and lies) not a dream , they speak loud about human rights , international laws etc but they are first who violate and want to restrict people rights , they speak copyright but they are first to violate – see whats happened with Apple in China , they speak about dignity but they use people as a salves in Asia , they pay cheap payments there for workers and after sale products at high price in EU SUA and after that they think what they doing is moral ? LOL
    Trolls laws and actions will not affect people from Russia Ukraine , India and all countries which are in popsite with US , becouse they cant force countries with nuclear weapons , huge natural resources and big population to respect their stupid laws ( more then half wolrd people livin in Russia China India , in Asia countries whos are in oposite with US , they must be so stupid if they think can hit billion people or force them to respect or doing something )

    bye bye US ! Sorry we arent your servants slaves , our system is worst but yours is much more then that is maleffic , you never control or hit us and that will never happen keep on mind that !

    • read_me.nfo

      That’s just the game being played. The question is, do those actions lead them to success?

    • Anonymous

      A big site in Ukraine has already been shut down, and torrentfreak had an article recently discussing that Russian sites are also on the list.

      • Bloaxor

        It’s not like we heard much more of that, and the site was fortunately back up a few days later.

    • Anonymous

      While what you said makes a lot of sense then I am also quite sure that the EU SUA are not killing people over this one.

      Most of us know they wont ever win the fight this way when it is a market demand problem. You cant win by not meeting that demand while taking down rivals who do.

    • Asdf

      I wish Putin was my president.

  • Josh

    Best way to keep your torrent site is buy dedi server in Russian :)

  • Iman

    http://www.ishare.cd if your looking for a new tracker…
    Been running since 2003 – 2005 as cddvdheaven 2005-2011 dididave.com and now as ishare.cd since 2011

  • Noworriesnero

    LOL guys calm down this is scc not flippin demonoid or any other shitty public tracker come on now cheer up it aint over till the fat lady sings ………opera

  • Suomynona

    Antipiratbyrån are MPAA’s puppets. May they both be knocked down from behind
    and gang-fucked by pirates daily.

  • Zeitgeist

    People talk about offshore and refer to Holland. Those guys must be born idiots. The only place you can stay off the authorities snatchy fingers is China, Russia and Middle-East. The Middle-East would give a big fat middle finger to the US, Swedish authorities and whoever wants to shut it down.

    • Bla

      If you get caught in China, you and your family are executed.

      • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

        No, they aren’t. Stopping putting out FUD, the only people who are ‘executed’ in China are people who cause a public danger by selling counterfeit/contaminated food/drugs/etc.

        Not people who are pirating stuff.

        • Dududus

          Bullshit.

          China would shut you down and give out all info they can as soon as they can benefit from it, ie the MAFIAA and RIAA will put out a press release praising the Chinese govt for taking piracy seriously.

          Or when China wants sth from the US, it will get brownie points for this shit.

        • Anonymous

          That is correct, until they pirate something that China values of course, then its AK47 time with bullets they charge to your family, if they’re lucky to still be alive.

          This is why Wikileaks should move to China, and remove all their leaks on China, that way, they stay nice with China but get to give the US the big middle finger!

        • Anonymous

          @Dududus They don’t adhere to US copyright, period. Lookup that Disneyland that the Chinese government so proudly runs whilst giving a middle finger to the fascist USA.

    • lulzworthy

      China? Are you retarded?

      • Zeitgeist

        Are you mentally challenged mate?

        You cannot be extradited or have your doors kicked down in China or Dubai. Get it? Muppet.

      • suqdis

        The Chinese don’t give a shit about Western copyright/patents (which is arguably a good part of the reason they’re doing so well).

  • Hassaan

    Private torrent site owners …… game over!!! Quit before its too late…..

    • Vengaboy777_in

      fuckoff shithead

  • Anonymous

    Welcome to Swedish market harassment and bullying.

    So what is this “piratebay model” of which they speak? As I seem to recall TPB 4 were convicted due to their combined tracker then so few modern sites seem to use that exact model.

    I well know what they are up to. Get one important ruling then terrorise the rest of the market who would represent vastly different cases. The practice of lying to scare should be unlawful.

  • Guest

    Yo, ho, haul together,
    hoist the colors high.
    Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
    never shall we die.

    ;)

    • Anonymous

      Where’s Captain Jack when we need him?

    • Asdf

      Poverty is immortal.

  • Bla

    We are not learning from history and are now repeating it. We have sacrificed safety for simplicity, speed and convenience and its past time to move back to decentralized systems.

    Encryption should be a norm as well.

    • http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell

      I agree with the encryption, but decentralized? That does about jackall to protect you from anything, to be blunt.

      What we need is something like Tribler (I believe that is the one that was talked about on here) where it can search people’s own shares for stuff.

      All torrent clients need to support the Tribler system very soon.

      • Anonymous

        tribler’s system is decentralized

        what are you talking about

        • Anonymous

          He means that ALL bit torrent clients should support the tribler protocol.

          Reading comprehension FTW!

      • XL

        Decentralisation helps protect the system from being shut down, not the users.

      • Anonymous

        Decentralization is essential to tribler. It’s the way it’s indexing and search function works, for instance. And what decentralization does is that it removes the entire idea of a single weak point being in the network.

        And you can run torrent files of any stripe in Tribler. So all that’s really required is that the various other brands of torrent clients out there pick up on the idea.

    • E546

      People will if/when it becomes necessary.

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  • foff

    Actually it will be interesting to see what the fuck the swedish anti-piracy org will do when all the sites it can shut down are gone. It will be interesting to see what the swedes come up with to replace it. This will give the rest of the world a heads up and we will move into the next phase whatever that is.

  • foff

    Not that it will happen but the thought occurred to me. If the swedes started to get disgusted with the lack of sharing and began to dump all their high speed internet connections in record numbers. What would all the companies that have an internet related business have to say. What would happen if internet traffic suddenly dropped by two thirds and floor fell out of most internet related businesses. Would most of Sweden really be so thrilled about their aggressive anti piracy campaign if wound up destroying most of the swedish internet?

    • Wi8d7.1

      People would still want to subscribe to Internet access in the same numbers even if they felt they didn’t need a high-speed connection anymore. ISPs wouldn’t care as it needn’t negatively affect them (they’d probably rejoice actually).

  • Anonymous

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  • Jay

    Torrents are dead now there are other non centilised ways to get files on bit torrent now other than fine a central online host for them.

    Why not take the sites themselves out of the equation?

    Apparently with magnet links the entire pirate bay can be archived at 60megs why not make a new type of website a p2p hosted one that has all the links you need a site that can be updated with new links to the entire swarm every hour say.

    Hmm ill have to think on this.

    Anyone have anyidea where i can post my ideas about creating non-centrilised websites?

    • Anonymous

      I don’t know the answer, but I love the idea.

  • Anonymous

    Fuck fuck fuck……fuck!!a

  • jöö

    Sad news. Swepiracy was good place :|

  • Mr Afghanistan

    Over 10,000 Private Torrent sites.

    Good luck with closing them one by one :P
    It will take at least 7-8 years to close them and you must know, when you close 1, others will raise to accommodate those refuges ;)

    Why Bother Small private torrent sites when there are over 500-600 big public torrent sites.

    1 big public torrent site equals to 5000 private tracker.

    Close 1 big public torrent site means you closed 5000 private torrent sites and less expensive ;)

    How about: IRC sharing ? FTP Sharing ? Cyber Lockers? Kaaza? Over 100 softwares like Kaaza and many more…

    Which one you will stop… LOL

    Good luck but first think what you are doing.

    Don’t Punch the Sky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha lol

    • bxiiavsh

      Fucking Amen :)

      The ONLY way to stop sharing / copying is to kill the Internet completely, then kill all the filesharers. Ain’t gonna happen, but the mafiaa.org and riaa are so retarded that they’ll keep slashing away at the wind and screaming: “We’re winning, we’re winning!!”

      hahaha

      • Anonymous

        then we just go back to burning CDs/DVDs from our friends and sharing that way.

        sucks that I then have to wait again until I can watch the latest US/UK series, but that won’t stop me sharing, just slows me down.

        this is a war they cannot possibly win because it goes against human nature.

        • ForwardMarch

          CD’s!?!? Is this 1998??

          I’m thinking smartphone and a fashionable belt packed with at least 1 TB of capacity. How do you suppose the Vatican err MAFFIA would stop that? Not allow kids to go to school in order to stop piracy? Don’t laugh, I wouldn’t put it past ‘em.

          A network of the people by the people and for the people (I couldn’t resist).

        • Anonymous

          @ForwardMarch – Put an open wireless router in a car, with a NAS box, run off a large battery. Drive to a busy mall. People drive by and upload and download. Segregate uploads till a virus scanner can check it. We can come up with hundreds of ideas like that if we want.

    • David Sims

      I agree 100%.
      File sharing is unstoppable.
      No matter what you do.

    • Dududus

      They sue the crap out of the top 20 torrent sites. Megaupload style raids and freezing of funds.

      It won’t be a week before the rest quit out of fear.

      The ‘thousands of sites’ argument is flawed.

      • http://www.facebook.com/billyup Jesse Jones

        Nice try shill.

        • Deadpirate

          The truth stings, doesn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    Sometimes you jsut really have to wonder who comes up with all that nonsense.
    Total-Privacy dot US

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  • emuleuser123

    This is why Emule will be around long after bittorrent is shutdown, Emule has an internal search feature combined with the decentralized KAD network it cannot be shutdown and it dosent rely on some website just to operate.

    Emule forever!

    • Guest

      Emule sucks donkey dick. Fact.

  • Guest

    off topic: Rest In Peace noda.tv

  • Anonymous

    Why did you put guilty in quotes regarding the Pirate Bay trial? Is it becuase you are still upset over how much credibility you lost after saying all along that the case was clearly going 100% in favor of the defendants and then looked bad when they wre found guilty?

    No quotes necessary. It was a guilty verdict. One that still hangs over their heads and will eventually lead to them in jail.

    • Anonymous

      The Pirate Bay trial and conviction would be taken more seriously had it not been filled with bullying, threats and corruption…
      http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120214/01404517751/pirate-bays-peter-sunde-questions-why-we-let-dying-industries-dictate-terms-democracy.shtml

      Even the Judge who ruled on bias in this case was later removed for bias.

    • JohnFBF

      That trial never knew the meaning of justice. The whole thing was a sham from start to end, total foregone conclusion, a secretly conspired, carefully constructed spectical. Inconvenient truth (fact) was never allowed to enter into the argument anywhere, it was purely groundless, speculative, unfounded bullshit (falsehood) all the way. The whole process was nothing more than a demonstration of power courtesy of corrupt governments for the benefit of corporate businesses.

      But that’s the way the world really works, just as it always has.

  • http://g00.me/7k Work at home, $40/h, link

    Once a thief, always a thief

    • Broken Record

      Once an uber idiot, always an uber idiot.

  • The Berlin Twelve

    Dear Friends of the Filesharer Variety,

    Do not ever fret.

    Every success that “they” have is ultimately a victory for us because the angered masses are joining The Pirate Party in great numbers. This will help with future advocacy, elections, and legislation.

    Also, they are providing us with an incredible impetus to improve and advance the way we share culture. Their resistance is being used for our gain. It’s like working out with weights. You only gain muscle if you have resistance, ie the weights you use. So, their efforts only strengthen our resolve and enlighten us to greater purpose.

    To Do List

    1. Increase encryption that is impervious to deep packet inspection and mimic popular formats like Skype encryption, ie make the transfer appear as any accepted technology. Even searches should be encrypted via this method. This encryption technology can be adaptive via updates from client developers. This might be important for the future as some ISPs might start throttling based upon certain encryption criteria. If this happens, then we just tweak the encryption via updates until we are hidden again.

    2. Improve Tribler and other clients so that searches via DHT can be divided by categorizations instead of an en masse return, ie, just like going to a bittorrent site and searching by selecting categories. This will make DHT searches easier and more specific. When this is done, we no longer need a centralized bittorrent search site. Searches can take place from the individual’s client. Basically, now EVERY client would be The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay would maintain it’s presence in every single client. Shutting down one node, ten, or one-hundred would make absolutely no difference whatsoever. All clients are updated when a new DHT torrent is created and that torrent has a tag indicating what category it falls into, film, music, ebook, comic, audiobook, etc. Sing along with me, “WE’RE ALL THE PIRATE BAY”!!!!

    3. Remove ip identification from showing in all clients. The client knows the connection, but your client doesn’t show it and doesn’t log it.

    4. When clicking a magnet link, a list of selectable files is presented just like with regular torrents.

    5. All bittorrent clients will be hidden upon installation. No folders appear. No files are revealed via search either. All folders and clients would only be present by using keyboard combinations of your choice (ctrl-z-t for example). If no one knows your keyboard combinations, they would never know you had a client or a download folder, ie no glaring uTorrent icon on your desktop, quick launch, or folder listing. Also, since your download folder would also be hidden, no one could see what you had downloaded.

    6. Secret.

    7. Secret.

    8. Secret.

    Yours Affectionately,

    The Berlin Twelve (their worst nightmare)

    :-)

    • Asdf

      I’m not sure I want to be that paranoid.

      • Faces in the Crowd

        Be afraid troll. Be VERY AFRAID.

      • Krozar

        It’s not paranoia, it’s intelligence.

  • Pratliff48

    It’s like we pirates are fighting a war we cant win, but piracy must go on!

    • Rva

      No, you have it exactly backwards.

    • Loaded

      If decentralized search and distributed encryption means my 10/1 connection becomes a 5/0.5 connection in order to accomplish this then so be it.

    • Anonymous

      Duh. If this is a war we won it already. Trackers and filehosting sites are, in essence, redundancies.

      Even TPB is nothing more than a sort of museum – still functional and very sentimental to be sure, but decentralized torrenting is here to stay.

      By the time “piracy” itself becomes affected, the internet itself will be falling apart as a whole under the weight of legislation effects and the general user will be unable to use it for anything but possibly bank transactions.

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  • Guest

    You know what, good riddance to bibliotik. It’s a shame to lose all those quality uploads, but the miserable excuse for staff there killed any joy in that place long ago. Ever been in their irc? Tons of fun if you like watching an unbalanced sysop attack and humiliate users.

    The first people who led that place just walked off and left it. Then a new group took over, made all these big claims about all the stuff they were going to do, then did… nothing. And acted–not all of them, but I’m definitely thinking of a couple–like they were king of the world and fuck you for trying to live in it. You were better off while the place was abandoned. Just as much got done, and it was still a more pleasant place to be.

    The fantastic uploaders who kept it alive IN SPITE OF staff will find a new home somewhere else, and the idiots who killed it can rot. Enjoy the money you took in from that donation drive you pushed before you took the site down, I guess.

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  • Lokasgr

    fuck you all bastards!!! the P2P will live for ever!!
    Fuck all coverments who working for microsoft and other companies.

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  • Fake

    So they’ve arrested all the child molesters, bankers and crooked politicians in Sweden already?

    No criminals left but those who help people find music that’s played on the radio for free?

    Or is this another case of rent-a-cops taking bribes from the copyright cabal?

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KDFCPFQXFN5Y7TEC52SLZUZ53E CLAUDIAB

    Never be ‘over’…just harder and harder to get the stuff.
    Thankfully, I back my shit up religiously.
    And, swap privately with friends.

    =D

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