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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38 Responses

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1 Jul 27, 2007 at 15:01 by Joao

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

2 Jul 27, 2007 at 15:27 by Miguel Caetano

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/

3 Jul 27, 2007 at 21:39 by feedbacker

i hope those moron are aware that its possible to search for torrent files on Shareaza , which is totally decentralized without any website.

4 Jul 27, 2007 at 22:33 by e l e v e n s p a c e s

[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]
n00b

5 Jul 28, 2007 at 00:00 by Steve

That sucks. . .but maybe this will cause future Web Admins to think twice about where to host their illegal websites.

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6 Jul 28, 2007 at 04:12 by Mr. Jameson

Wake me up when the Bay goes down again will ya?

7 Jul 28, 2007 at 05:00 by harryFan

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8 Jul 28, 2007 at 05:52 by sazwqa

well does this means that torrent sites have limited days to survive ???

9 Jul 28, 2007 at 05:57 by Jackson

They drove people off Napster so they went to BitTorrent.

Isn’t it time for Darknet anyway?

10 Jul 29, 2007 at 01:13 by An0nym0us

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!!

11 Jul 29, 2007 at 08:01 by feedbacker

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 ?

12 Jul 29, 2007 at 11:03 by 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.

13 Jul 29, 2007 at 14:00 by freakinc

http://www.torrentz.com no where else to go

14 Jul 29, 2007 at 18:03 by George W. Bush

YOU CAN NOT UNITE! YOUR PITIFUL BAND OF REBEL SCUM WILL BE DESTROYED. YOU WILL BOW DOWN TO YOUR MASTER.

USA!

USA!

USA!

15 Jul 29, 2007 at 23:20 by Newbie

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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