BitTorrent Sites Shut Down, Admins Arrested
Written by Ernesto on July 27, 2007In a renewed effort to put a halt to piracy, Spanish Police shut down two BitTorrent sites. Todotorrente.com and trackertdt.com were both taken offline and three administrators were arrested and accused of facilitating “copyright infringement”.
The main target, todotorrente.com, was one of the largest Spanish BitTorrent sites in Spain with tens of thousands active users. On the site we now read the following message (translated):
“CLOSED BY JUDICIAL ORDER”
According to the Police, todotorrente.com was responsible for more than 500,000 € in losses to copyright holders, while the site itself made more than 30,000 € in profits. Numbers that can’t be backed up by any evidence of course, but we’re used to that.
Todotorrente.com was not the only site affected by the raids. In addition, the police took down trackertdt.com, a sister site of todotorrente.com. Gamesfive.net, another sister site, now redirects to blackdivx.org.
This is not the first time that Spanish authorities take action against BitTorrent sites. Last year, 15 administrators of BitTorrent and eDonkey sites were arrested, in the largest P2P raid in Spanish history. Most of the sites that were shut down last year (17 in total) remain unavailable up until today, however, pctorrent.com now redirects to newpct.com, one of the largest BitTorrent sites in Spain.
A bittersweet week for Spanish pirates.
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Same thing happened to a portuguese bittorrent indexing site:
http://www.btuga.pt
It says on site:
“Closed down by precautionary measure”
Further details on the news:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fjn.sapo.pt%2F2007%2F07%2F26%2Fpolicia_e_tribunais%2Fbtugapt_encerrado_pela_asae.html
Regarding the BTuga case here in Portugal you might want to use google translator to read this:
http://remixtures.com/2007/07/btuga-encerrado-por-policia-judiciaria/
http://remixtures.com/2007/07/btuga-policia-judiciaria-faz-rescaldo-da-operacao/
http://remixtures.com/2007/07/queixas-crime-contra-btuga-partiram-da-afp-e-da-fevip/
i hope those moron are aware that its possible to search for torrent files on Shareaza , which is totally decentralized without any website.
[quote comment="138143"]i hope those moron are aware that its possible to search for torrent files on Shareaza , which is totally decentralized without any website.[/quote]
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That sucks. . .but maybe this will cause future Web Admins to think twice about where to host their illegal websites.
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well does this means that torrent sites have limited days to survive ???
They drove people off Napster so they went to BitTorrent.
Isn’t it time for Darknet anyway?
The US Laws are stretching across the seas. Now this makes me mad, angry, pissed and many more emotions that I shouldn’t be obligated to feel.
I will make this promise, to all my fellow Portuguese readers.
Esta na hora da novo volta das leis!!
If not… we will be owned by the American laws on our own land.
We can either unite or bow down to the capitalist pigs!!
Jackson: “Isn’t it time for Darknet anyway?”
Nope , its time for Shareaza and look alikes. In democracy we dont need to hide. Shareaza for torrent files is equal to all the bittorrent sites but without a site.
Who are they gona catch , 6 billion people ?
Go find some .torrent files in Shareaza and u will see what i mean.
Download the .torrent files from Shareaza but use Azureus to download the torrent data.
This duo is perfect for now, hope things catch up. Are they gona catch people for sharing .torrent files ?
@ feedbacker
Darknet Vs Shareaza, apples and oranges. Don’t want to come up mean but you’re pretty naive pal. Moreover, there are trackers and indexing sites, that’s not the same thing.
http://www.torrentz.com no where else to go
YOU CAN NOT UNITE! YOUR PITIFUL BAND OF REBEL SCUM WILL BE DESTROYED. YOU WILL BOW DOWN TO YOUR MASTER.
USA!
USA!
USA!
That’s the same message you get from MANY NUMEROUS torrent sites when you fail to meet their share ratio requirement. I wonder if the one who found that out was a leecher.
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duhh so bad for spain!!
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” @ feedbacker
Darknet Vs Shareaza, apples and oranges. Don’t want to come up mean but you’re pretty naive pal. Moreover, there are trackers and indexing sites, that’s not the same thing.”
U r right but the same technology can be used to create a websiteless software exclusively for torrent files with all the features that u have mentioned. Just like this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_Galaxy, please think more
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anything that benefits the majority = criminals or illegal.
anything that benefits the few= profits or legal.
sad = happy
stupid = smart
i’m so sick of the rich getting richer, they should all be shot to death for mass murdering innocent people through propaganda such as ww1,ww2,cold war.
Wow! That just goes to show that people need to be more carful about how they get their media.
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The “police” should worry about crimes, people being raped, shot intead they illegaly shut down this sites, bunch of good-for-nothing crackers
Heard AXJ just got one going too.
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