Leaseweb Forced To Shut Down More BitTorrent Sites
Written by Ernesto on November 16, 2007The Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has forced LeaseWeb to take down several BitTorrent sites. Although the ISP is determined to fight for its customers in court, for now, it has no other option than to shut down BitTorrent sites when they’re ordered to.
BREIN uses the decision from a case from earlier this year to put pressure on LeaseWeb. In this case, the Amsterdam court ruled that Leaseweb had to take the BitTorrent tracker everlasting.nu offline and hand over the name and address of the owner. Additionally, Leaseweb was ordered to take down everlasting.nu, in case the site returns in the near future.
It looks like LeaseWeb, once the safe haven of many BitTorrent sites, is now seriously under threat. BREIN already used the decision in the everlasting.nu case to take Demonoid down and are now planning to do the same with other BitTorrent sites hosted at LeaseWeb. TorrentFreak got its hands on an email from LeaseWeb, in which they urge one of their customers to take their website offline.
LeaseWeb writes in the email: “In a recent case at the Amsterdam District Court, LeaseWeb was ordered to take down such sites. Although LeaseWeb has filed an appeal and will keep fighting for its client’s rights up to the highest court, LeaseWeb regrettable has no choice but to obey the court order and take down sites that list (bittorrent/edonkey) files.”
This is an alarming statement since there are lots of BitTorrent sites hosted at LeaseWeb. For now only SumoTorrent has confirmed that the .torrent files and the tracker will move to an ISP in Canada, but according to the email from LeaseWeb it is likely that more sites will follow.
Interestingly, the BitTorrent sites are allowed to keep their servers at LeaseWeb as long as they move the .torrent files and the trackers to another host. This means that the frontend of some sites might stay at LeaseWeb and that a link to a file that links to copyrighted content is fine.
To give an indication of the magnitude of the issue, here’s a selection of some of the bigger BitTorrent sites hosted at LeaseWeb and there are many more.
btjunkie.org, seedpeer.com, torrentleech.org, mybittorrent.com, btmon.com, sumotorrent.com, what.cd, waffles.fm, hdbits.org, bitenova.nl, torrentportal.com, monova.org and dozens of smaller BitTorrent sites.
Not all these websites received an email from LeaseWeb (yet). It seems that BREIN plans to focus on the sites that run a BitTorrent tracker, similar to Demonoid and Everlasting.nu, first.
It’s a tough spot for LeaseWeb to be in as a significant part of their income comes from these BitTorrent sites. However, they have to obey the court order, and are pretty serious about it as they write: “We hereby kindly request you to take down the website mentioned below within 24hours. Failure to do so will result in a direct ending of the contract and services provided by LeaseWeb.”
We asked LeaseWeb for a comment and they forwarded a copy of their legal statement regarding sites listing BitTorrent files in which they explain that there is no other option than to take down BitTorrent sites if they are asked to. However, they also state: “LeaseWeb has filed an appeal and will keep fighting for its client’s privacy and right of freedom of expression up to the highest court.”
Stay tuned for updates!
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[quote comment="217302"]
instead of criminalizing peer-to-peer users, to make peer-to-peer exchanges legal, in exchange for a fee on broadband Internet subscriptions, which would go to fund the artists and authors. This is known as the “global license” or “legal license”.
Problem Solved!
:D[/quote]
Those funds have never gone to authors and artists before, why should this time be any different?
Just another cash cow for the M.A.F.I.A.A.
Great post by MeOW
Keep dreaming Global License, it will never happen
You idiots are too funny. You really thought no one would start cracking down on this? lol.
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Most of the big torrent sites are hosted in (NL) thats why the authorities are focused there.
Why can’t all the big trackers just move to a different site hosting? Why use LEASEWEBS. Doesn’t come to your mind that once a torrent tracker that was on leaseweb went down dont you think your site might go as well.
JUST FUCKING MOVE ALREADY BEFORE BITTORRENT IS DEAD!
FOR GOOD BECAUSE OF THE SELFISH FUCKING GOV ANTI PIRACY COMPANYS. THAT CREATED LEGAL P2p LIKE FUCKING ITUNES AND NAPSTER. WHY ARE THOSE LEGAL I DON”T GET THIS FUCKING THING!!
Why turn this country into a communizum country i thought we tried to avoid that?
Why can’t all the big trackers just move to a different site hosting? Why use LEASEWEBS. Doesn’t come to your mind that once a torrent tracker that was on leaseweb went down don’t you think your site might go as well.
JUST FUCKING MOVE ALREADY BEFORE BITTORRENT IS DEAD!
FOR GOOD BECAUSE OF THE SELFISH FUCKING GOV ANTI PIRACY COMPANY’S. THAT CREATED LEGAL P2p LIKE FUCKING ITUNES AND NAPSTER. WHY ARE THOSE LEGAL I DON”T GET THIS FUCKING THING!!
Why turn this country into a communizum country i thought we tried to avoid that?
I was a user at OiNK from the very beginning. I had worked for years to keep my ratio up. I had uploaded over 500GB of data. When OiNK went down, I was devastated. Unfortunately, I didn’t socialize a lot on the forums, so now I don’t know how to get an invite to waffles.fm.
Anyone have a suggestion?
The thing to remember people is this:
“Its peer-to-peer stupid” - the anti-p2p agencies have’nt a chance, so don’t worry, life will go on as always.
You’re days are numbered you little fucking thieves.
If u interesting in downloading by torrent client and u looking for good invite from good web site go through this link http://tracker-invites.org/index.php?referredby=2546 and make registry and have invite and trade invite also good luck
“If the server is still online we will shutdown the server today”
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[quote comment="216792"]
Greedy lying chickenshits like deimos who can’t be bothered to stand up for themselves have no place in the filesharing community, no matter how much you claim that everybody who doesn’t share your opinion is hired by MediaDefender.
Had he properly defended himself like the admin of ShareConnector did, then Brein would not have had the opportunity to do what they are doing now. Instead he plainly lied about hardware trouble and ran with his tail between his legs.
And now we can all see how well that tactic worked out for him and the provider he left to fend for themselves. Lucky for him there are still some blind demoniod lovers like yourself to defend his cowardly and deceptive behavior.[/quote]
Well said. You know who Deimos is? The New Loki. The sooner we root out all the thieves, cowards and liars who say they’re on our side, the better off the whole P2P scene will be.
The real leaders are working behind the scenes and are getting things done. They aren’t asking for legal fund donations or waving the white flag when a single letter from a BS lobby group reaches their box.
They’re quietly coding and encoding and helping the scene not exploiting it to make a name for themselves.
If you’re like me and you remember downloading games and shit off of BBS’s (look it up)with 300 baud dial-up modems, you know that Pandora’s box was opened decades ago. BREIN or any of the **AA’s can’t close it. Never. We evolve. They do not. They refuse to update their revenue streams or change their fundamentally flawed profit models. They’ve had more than enough time to update their thinking. They refuse to. So we fixed it.
The solution and cure for price-gouging, price-fixing, and price-collusion is - at its core, the simplest concept, a noble concept; its a common decency we call sharing.
You’ll never be able to stop people from sharing. It’s like declaring war on terrorism or war on drugs. You might as well just declare war on air. It makes about as much sense.
The Copyright Police don’t like file-sharing because it’s socialist. It reminds them of the evil Communists they’ve heard about in school (but probably Rocky IV).
The revolution was fought and we won. We eliminated the middle-men. The greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. It’s not stealing if you’re redistributing wealth. If the big labels and studios lose money - GOOD. They raped us because they COULD for as long as they could. They’d rather sue you then lower a ticket price or a DVD price.
But for every big label and studio that are losing money hand over fist because they refuse to evolve, there’s all kinds of indie labels and small art-house movies and videos that achieve billions in dollars of advertising and distribution that they could have never otherwise achieved because their work was shared all across the globe.
That’s called levelling the playing field and that’s not a crime. That’s what’s known as JUST.
all the anti RIAA, MPA, IFPI, CRIA talk doesn’t mean anything as long as people still want to buy Led Zepplin and Madonna and Britney Spears and Metallic and so on ….
People like you and me have taken this to the level of civil disobediance. But until the Musicans and Filmmakers strike out against labels/studios for ripping them off on the other side of the coin, I doubt if this will go anywhere.
[quote comment="215563"][quote comment="215558"]Actually, there is a way to see what sites are hosted on Leaseweb. Netcraft has a database listing what sites are hosted at each individual IP, and all sites hosted on all IPs owned by an organisation[/quote]
DUH, but you still need to DO the actual reverse search on millions of hosted sites and IP-addresses they resolve to. Trust me, that is A LOT harder. Ernesto is someone I don’t trust here. He goes along with the scare-mongering. Divide and conquer is their strategy.[/quote]
What are you on about? It takes no more than a few clicks and a couple of minutes on netcraft.com
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