CRIA Orders ShutDown of What.cd, Other Major BitTorrent Trackers
Written by enigmax on May 27, 2008A company which hosts many BitTorrent trackers has been ordered by the CRIA to close at least four major sites. Moxie Colo was issued with cease and desist notices and ordered to hand over the owners data and site logs of What.cd, SumoTracker, BTMon and FullDls. They are told to simply close many other sites they host.
Those who believed that Canada would develop as one of the world’s BitTorrent safe-havens, are in for quite a surprise. Despite many people believing that torrent sites are operating legally in Canada, today popular Canadian BitTorrent host Moxie Colo was served with cease and desist orders, courtesy of the CRIA.
They specifically demand that the Moxie Colo stops hosting top ranked torrent sites What.cd, SumoTorrent, BTMon and FullDls. Generally, the CRIA is demanding that Moxie stop hosting all torrent sites.
TorrentFreak has been reporting recently on the plight of QuebecTorrent which is currently tied up in a legal battle against the music industry in Canada. Clearly that - and the running out of town of Demonoid - was just a run up to further action by an emboldened CRIA.
In files served on Moxie Communications Inc (the parent company of Moxie Colo), the CRIA is demanding that Moxie turn over the personal details of the torrent site administrators, presumably so they can go after them. The CRIA also want Moxie to turn over all relevant site logs, but it is at least unlikely that the Canadian police will be interested in most of the users.
Of course, just because the CRIA demands something, doesn’t mean they will get it. For now, Moxie Colo said it won’t be giving in to the CRIA’s demands.
Sean Corbin, CEO of Moxie Communications told TorrentFreak: “We will not be following the request and will be fighting for the rights of our clients as to date laws in Canada protect them. We have looked into the matter and from what we understand these sites are not breaking any laws in Canada. If we do not comply they might bring legal action against Moxie Communications, as they believe without us these sites could not do what they do so therefore we are as bad as they are.”
More on this breaking story as we get it.
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Good luck MoxieColo, nice to see a hoster stand up to CRIA et al.!
“CRIA Orders ShutDown of What.cd”
Your blatant sensationalism makes me sick. CRIA can’t order dick, they just send out some “scary” letters to browbeat an ISP into submission because they know they can’t do shit in court. Good thing said ISP doesn’t seem to give a shit about scare tactics.
It’s all so fucking pointless. How many times do we have to hear about this fucker did that fucker did this. It all boils down to gooey shite.
21grams, without sites like this one you probably wont even know whats happening, so shut it or shove it…
CRIA is bullshitting
If they order to shut down what.cd server, they will move their servers to another country!
It’s a stupid way to force an ISP to shut down some servers, CRIA is just trying to close a datacenter LoL
someone should really fuck CRIA deeply :)
what.cd is moving to another host already LoL
this site continues to eat dick and write articles that as mis-informed as the Inquirer. At least this one wasn’t from Ben Jones this time
QFT, I still doubt that they even know whats going on. If they don’t like the article they shouldn’t fucking read it.
Some of us do like these articles though, so stfu.
Go Moxie!
Doesn’t anyone know any of these copyright upholding assholes in real life? A few tight slaps across some ugly faces are in order me thinks ..
I do agree that you (torrentfreak) are a bit sensationalist sometimes but hey makes interesting reading.
Anywhoooo to the point good luck Moxie Colo and hopefully the CRIA will stop gobbing off!
tight slaps LooL
Some tight slaps & some tight kicks :)
Moxie Colo does not just support torrent sites. We support anything that is deemed legal within Canada. I do not believe in that because someone else feels something should be taken down and only means to get that across is to send us a letter isn’t even worth the paper it is written on.
We believe in freedom of information and from what we seen and researched none of these sites are committing copyright infringement.
Now maybe the user’s of the site are but that has nothing to do with Moxie Colo or even the site owner’s as no illegal traffic is sent via Moxie’s Network.
Rest assured we will fight for what ever our clients need regardless as to what Ind it might be. Adult P2P Blog or anything else someone decides to host. If its legal its allowed here.
I doubt the sites in question are going to move off of moxie as we are standing here in public eye backing them up. If they want to leave then in end of day makes our life easier but by no means are we saying them or any other client needs to vacate. We will take this all the way to the courts before we would ever damage our relations with our clients.
Please everyone understand that we are not shutting down anyone anytime soon.
Regards
Moxie Colo.
this is what Sweden is for. once the new canada DMCA is in action its all over :\
na na na na, hey hey hey, goooodbyeee
- THE GUYS AT ANTI-PIRACY GANGS DESERVES DEATH! -
CRIA could not down Thepiratebay, now they are attacking to Moxie Colo.
I think Moxie Colo will fuck CRIA and other anti piracy company same like Thepiratebay did :)
Moxie Colo Go Go GO ! ! !
thnx Moxie Colo for your response.!
its good to see the isp standing up for their CUSTOMERS! it will only bring more custom ur way
and i hope what.cd ect will not move and continue paying for there hosting with Moxie Colo
hello riaa copycat, your are copying the riaa model, YOU ARE A PIRATE TOO!!!!
pleased by moxie’s stance on it :)
Norway is a “Bit-torrent safe-haven”.
we so need a international day of bashing anti copyright lawyers and organisations, like christmas was started by ordanary people once :-D
Awesome from MoxieColo. Hope they do well.
If they get through this I’m sure they’ll get many more clients ^^
I asked a friend at the CIRA about this action, and he said it was totally bogus.
Looks like a weak ass pandering publicity stunt, lame.
Tru tru.
Try the trout and you will never regret.
/me slaps anti-piracy gangs with a large trout.
Haha, let them try. Stupid fucking CIRA.
What.cd will never die!
im with hawkinbj on this one, you guys really need to stop reporting on information that you dont have any clue about, there is no reason to tell people what is going on if it isnt the truth.
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