BitTorrent Sites Shut Down, Admins Arrested

Written by Ernesto on July 27, 2007 

In 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”.

BitTorrent Sites Shut Down, Admins ArrestedThe 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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26 Jul 30, 2007 at 12:25 by anonymous coward

Test thy sword on my mighty beast! Thou shalt parish haters. For she has many heads.

27 Jul 31, 2007 at 08:08 by Jordi

duhh so bad for spain!!

Madre PAtria ustedes pueden cabrones!!!! viva la informacion libre.

28 Jul 31, 2007 at 14:01 by FeedBacker

PeteQuote Pete

” @ 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

Cheeers

29 Jul 31, 2007 at 16:41 by FeedBacker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_Galaxy

30 Sep 19, 2007 at 23:15 by bifglc sknix

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31 Nov 27, 2007 at 06:09 by welovefreedom

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.

32 Jan 05, 2008 at 11:19 by Mike

Wow! That just goes to show that people need to be more carful about how they get their media.

Copy Your Games with CGame Copy Pro.
http://gamecopyproreview.com

33 May 23, 2008 at 10:33 by evolvtyon

The “police” should worry about crimes, people being raped, shot intead they illegaly shut down this sites, bunch of good-for-nothing crackers

34 Jun 06, 2008 at 07:37 by AXJ

Heard AXJ just got one going too.

35 Jul 30, 2008 at 15:26 by libocn

racvarrico

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