BitTorrent Tracker Sends Takedown Request to Torrent Indexers
Written by Ernesto on April 06, 2008After being spammed with takedown request from several companies, ELiTE-TEAM, a French private BitTorrent tracker recently asked several torrent indexers to remove their torrents, and not to accept any new ones. Unfortunately their effort is doomed to fail.
In an email, sent to several of the bigger torrent sites, the administrator of ELiTE-TEAM writes:
“Lately we received more complaints from anti-piracy organizations on behalf of major companies, because some of our members post our torrents on your indexer. I take the freedom of you ask whether it is possible to remove all torrents related to my tracker, and not to accept new ones in the future.”
The administrator had already asked the members of his tracker not to post their torrents elsewhere, but this didn’t work out, as he writes: “We already put announcements on the tracker, but our +120,000 are not very co-operative.”
Most BitTorrent sites owners are more than familiar with handling takedown requests, however, these usually come from copyright holders or anti-piracy organizations, not fellow site admins.
Other than that, it is of course impossible to prevent torrents from being shared, since it is the whole purpose of filesharing. The only option to prevent people from spreading ELiTE-TEAM torrents is to take down the tracker.
ELiTE-TEAM, on the other hand, is simply trying to stay out the firing range of anti-piracy organization by showing that they are willing to cooperate with content owners. They even posted the takedown requests and removal logs on their disclaimer page. However, I doubt that sending takedown request to torrent indexers is the optimal solution.
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They closed the site and their tracker!
[quote comment="333513"]ELiTE-TEAM PWNed LoL[/quote]
Why don’t you have a nice big cup of STFU, a$$hole.
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Dunno,
somehow I can’t help myself but I dislike the spin the article tries to put on this. Nearly all privat trackers prohibit spreading their torrents to other trackers/indexers. If you are part of such a community you should respect that. Plus there is no purpose of putting the torrents on public trackers, the key will get blocked and no one getting the torrent from an outside indexer will get any peers from the private tracker. At least if the admins are not total monkeys. Thus I gues someone tries to get back at the admins of the tracker, because it only gives them exposure, without any benefits for other filesharers not being member of the private tracker.
YOU STOLE MY HASH DATA!!!
[quote comment="333762"]I think its a very legitimate request. OiNK used to have a rule about posting the sites torrents elsewhere. The fellows at this private tracker should implement the same one. Keep their users from posting torrents elsewhere. It’s fine to share the files, just not use the same tracker. It seems very reasonable to me if this is a private tracker, they shouldn’t have to deal with non-members using their tracker to download files.[/quote]
most private trackers have rules like that, however, users often dont obey them, and some even go so far as to make second accounts, seed a bit to get a reasonable ratio so they arent flagged up, and then set about dumping as many torrents as they can on pubs…they think its good for promo for the private sites, although if anything it worsens the general users perception of BT as they dont understand the politics of private sites etc… and are upset when they are unable to get the torrent they wanted to download, simple as that
After 2 years of passion and dedication to your service, the team of elite-team.net just decided the permanent closure of the site. The main reason is the tragic death of one of our administrators 1 month ago, the entire team has been severely affected by his death, we decided to continue a time without him but, ultimately, the will is there anymore. The second reason is the general climate in the world of sharing, which is increasingly deplorable and that does give us more desire to continue. We know that this decision is difficult, but we have carefully think about it, we wish you a good wind on the Internet and we hope that you will understand our gesture, and that you will support our pain. Thanks to all those who believed in us. Bonne continuation
too bad:( ;(
What a stupid article. Worst tabloid style. I don’t get what’s so funny or weird about that polite request. No lawyers involved or anything, just a simple request for some co-operation between site admins *sigh*
[quote comment="333512"]the community should help each other out like this.[/quote]
More drama, please. The community owes them nothing, you see. Let the facts speak for themselves. First, they ran a private tracker which hardly helped the community as a whole. Second, they called themselves “elite” and it’s hard to think of a more vainglorious (read: disrepspectful towards others) name. Third, they were unable to sort out their private affairs and requested others to do the job for them.
Sharing is caring and I honestly can’t seee how these guys cared for anyone but themselves.
Besides, there are two types of people: those with the will to work and fight (TPB for example) and those who go down. ET went down. R.I.P.
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I like France. They have an awesome Medical System and they actually get out and protest. And often too. Unlike N. Americans, who yell at the tube and post dissent on an obscure thread somewhere, cause it’s cool at the moment.
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and @7: the hash is of the file(s) being shared; adding trackers to the torrent does not alter the file(s) themselves, so it would not change the hash.[/quote]
Actually, it does. While the referenced files have their own hash, the torrent file itself also has its own hash. Most all tracker software can remake uploaded torrents, however, which is how services like ISOhunt can include many trackers in a torrent that originally only had one. If you install something like BNBT Easytracker on your home system, you’ll find options to add a certain tracker to all uploaded torrents, or modify them in certain ways.
as a refugee from torrentspy & demonoid, i see it as part of the evolution. when you get fat & happy, you go down.
Wow, first they can’t get their security tight enough, then they blame everyone else for getting their ass handed to them? Hah, I say good riddance to these n00bs and their crap tracker :D
Kind of ironic, the pirate’s torrent’s are being pirated lol.
Couldn’t the people who were posting the elite torrents to indexing sites have protected their “source” by creating their own .torrent files, posting them to a public site and posting those to the indexer?
It seems as if people like the attention that posting releases gets them but aren’t willing to even put a few minutes of work in to get it.
@41 they maybe use DHT and peer exchange in their clients so the new downloaders go into the swarms…
Otherwise they’d have to support the whole upload. Or how to be “leet” at low bandwidth costs…
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