BREIN Chases Another BitTorrent Tracker to Sweden
Written by enigmax on December 08, 2008RARBG, probably one of the biggest BitTorrent trackers you’ve never heard of, has been ordered to close by anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. The 100,000 member site, which is particularly popular with Bulgarians, doesn’t intend to comply but simply move to a different host, outside of BREIN’s jurisdiction.
Born just over 12 months ago, RARBG is a pretty big site to stay off most people’s radar. Tracking over 50,000 torrents and clocking up 1.1 million unique visits per month, the site (which has open signups) was previously hosted in Bulgaria but after attracting the attention of the police it more recently moved to the Netherlands-based host, LeaseWeb.
The move prompted the admins to work on an international version of the site which caused it to rapidly gain in popularity. It now has over 100,000 users, with its tracker reporting 185,000 seeds and 178,000 leechers.
Of course, with popularity comes more attention from anti-piracy outfits, the most famous one in the Netherlands being BREIN. Accordingly, BREIN has put pressure on LeaseWeb who in turn has advised its customer, RARBG, that it has 48 hours to shut down the site - or LeaseWeb will do it for them.
So what makes it so easy for BREIN to shut down the site? In 2007, LeaseWeb, once one of the largest BitTorrent hosts, was ordered by a court to shut down the relatively unknown BitTorrent tracker everlasting.nu. Leaseweb actually appealed the court’s decision to shut down the site but lost, and was ordered to hand over the admin’s personal details. The overall result was an exodus of BitTorrent sites from LeaseWeb, including the likes of BTjunkie, Demonoid, What.cd and Waffles.fm.
TorrentFreak spoke with the admin of RARBG who told us he intends to move the site out of the Netherlands and into the current BitTorrent safe-haven of Sweden. Asked about plans for the future, he responded, “To keep the site up, whatever it takes.”
Update: RARBG has successfully moved to Sweden.
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1 is right.
I use rarbg!!! Its mint
If you click puzzle next to the torrent pictures, they get put in a jigsaw thing…
hard to explain…
try it
.. and when Sweden ain’t safe no more they’ll all come to Norway. Or perhaps they should follow Demonoid to Ukraine.
http://www.eZee.se -> TPB site is still in Sweden, the tracker is with euroaccess/NFOrce in Netherlands ..
fucking netherlands i hate my CUNTry
@6, Sorry, thats what i meant.. site still here but tracker is not here, and the heart of TPB is its tracker right? A close second would be its legal page :P, thats worth a site of its own!
Someone should catch BREIN and knock their f**king BREINS out.
“BREIN actually appealed the court?s decision to shut down the site but lost, and was ordered to hand over the admin?s personal details.”
As 1,2, et 3 have said, don’t you mean LeaseWeb?
“Someone should catch BREIN and knock their f**king BREINS out.”
Amen to that! One wonders why their brains are not already out by now. Their place is in Hell, not Earth.
Roze
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Lets see the $hit hitting the fan now :D
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Never knew such a torrent site with open sign ups…
If fact rarbg only mirrors (every torrent) from the biggest bulgarian tracker arenabg.com
Just check here:
http://arenabg.com/torrents.php
and
http://rarbg.com/torrents.php
This is just a site with mirrors from ArenaBG.com.
Many idiots copy from ArenaBG but there is only one!
I had never heard of RARBG before…surprisingly.
Hahaha.
Yeah, take the BitTorrent tracker you’re trying to shut down and drive it out of your own jurisdiction. Good work, BREIN.
Honestly. These anti-filesharing gangs are so morbidly stupid I could almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
It was off the RADAR until you guys mentioned them. Meh…
Not related to topic but for f uck sake can the mods pls do somthing about those spamming d ickwads http://www.eZee.se http://www.10ch.org
thank you
@7
Just an idea, lets host the “legal page” on a server in the US then, to make it simpler ;)
Excuse me, but I must ask… You say in the summary that it is ‘outside of BREIN’s jurisdiction.’ — Since when does BREIN have any jurisdiction of control? Last I knew BREIN =/= police / judicial system.
that’s their plan, Get all the popular torrent sites to one country and a few web hosts then bam get them all. mark my words
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I hate the country where i live!! fuck BREIN!!
@18: you’re completely correct!
Problem is that the government has no advantage is checking if BREIN is actually using legal methods to find illegal sites/content. But since the government has absolutely diddly-shit knowledge of IT, they assume that all evidence from BREIN is 100% correct.
Even to such an extent that if BREIN were to forge evidence and put it to court, the judge will probably buy it and order a hostingparty or site to comply with BREIN’s demands.
Would be extremely funny to host some illegal content, leak details to BREIN and appear in court with a little group of highly-skilled “admins” to counter any method of BREIN to the fullest extent of Dutch law.
I love RARBG
Keep em coming guys..
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