More BitTorrent Sites Going Down

Written by Ernesto on April 14, 2006 

BREIN did it again. The Dutch anti-piracy organization forced TorrentIt and NLexperience to go offline. Although BREIN has no legal power, threatening with lawsuits and high fines seems to be an effective strategy to take the smaller BitTorrent sites down.

TorrentIt (27.000 users) and NLexperience (10.000 users) both experienced BREIN’s pressure for the second time. Last year both sites went offline for a short period of time after being targeted for the first time. Both decided to relocate their servers, and continued serving torrents on a foreign server. TorrentIt moved their servers to Malaysia while NLexperience found a hideout in Russia.

However, BREIN identified NLexperience’s domain-holder and visited him at his home address, a technique often used by BREIN to put pressure on their victims. NLexperience went offline, but the site operator said to its users that he was determined to come back. When BREIN heard about these plans, it immediately sued the domain-holder, who eventually felt he had to comply.

Around the same time BREIN visited the 20 year old operator of TorrentIt, formerly known as 123torrents. After the first time BREIN went after TorrentIt, the site owner tried to sell the site for $30.000. BREIN in the meanwhile was preparing to strike again.

‘The admin had been active from The Netherlands earlier, and seemed to be in the assumption we would lose track if he would move the site to a foreign country’, says BREIN CEO Tim Kuik. ‘This was a misconception. We knew he hadn’t sold the site because there was too much resistance from the community to that. We have monitored the traffic on this site and on this basis determined that the person concerned still managed this site.’

TorrentIt stopped serving torrents after the complaint was filed, until further notice.

It seems that BREIN’s threatening and intimidating talk still works, although Brein has no legal power.

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10 Responses

1 Apr 15, 2006 at 02:35 by falafelboy

I love torrentit. Too damn bad.

2 Apr 15, 2006 at 17:30 by socolef

brein gone out of his brain.
I hate it to loose all those torrentsites in holland.
Well it`s a big world and they can`t cross the border.
lucky me.

3 Apr 18, 2006 at 22:39 by Syncere

id just like to say fuck BRIEN , who in the hell are the dutch to try to shut shit down anyways , we dont even have dutch shit (tit) anyways , so wtf do they care? lol

4 Apr 19, 2006 at 13:43 by kit

i hate the dutch. was an awesome site

5 Apr 19, 2006 at 23:23 by goodboy

why does’nt brien go fuck it’s self!!!
torrentit rocks!!!!!!
any idea where to check on status of torrentit?

6 Apr 22, 2006 at 00:26 by EShady

Fuck, I had over 600 gig upped there! I hope nobody suppeonas their user record list…

7 Apr 24, 2006 at 06:07 by JuGGaLo420

When will these organizations see….TIT and other sites will always be taken down, just to come right back up. Instead of suing users and owners of these sites, why don’t you sue Bill Gates…he is the real pirate…overcharging for useless software and his damn $29.99 technical support fee you have to pay when you have problems with HIS products that HE already charged you for when you bought it in the first place!!!

8 Apr 30, 2006 at 18:39 by EShady

Any news on TiT returning in one form or another??

9 Apr 30, 2006 at 20:58 by goodboy

i found this !!!!!( http://board.after-all.org/showthread.php?t=258&highlight=torrentit)what does it mean?any body any links to find out more about tit?

10 Apr 30, 2006 at 21:44 by Ernesto

it means that they don’t know what they’re going to do yet.

I wont expect tit back soon

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