Russian BitTorrent Trackers Shut Down
Written by Ernesto on February 05, 2007Several BitTorrent trackers in the Tomsk region in Russia have been shut down. The reason for the takedowns is still unclear. Some suggest that the cybercrime division of the Russian police, also known as “Department K” is behind it. Others think that it is a drastic measure to decrease bandwidth usage by Tomsk’s local ISP.
The Russian police denied that it had anything to do with the closure of the trackers, and refused to release any further comments.
Vadim Andrianov, one of the BitTorrent tracker admins, thinks that the shutdown of his, and other sites could be part of a new anti-piracy campaign. Andrianov is still waiting for an official response from his ISP. He is not worried about any form of legal action, because his site was only offering Open Source software.
Bandwidth management could be an alternative explanation for the closure of the BitTorrent sites. Immediately after the trackers were shut down, p2p traffic dropped drastically, to 20% of what it used to be. Could this be an attempt by Tomsk’s ISP to cut down the bandwidth generated by BitTorrent transfers? It sure is more effective than most traffic shaping devices.
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More likely they didn’t pay their bribes this month.
ISPs hate when somebody uses upstream 100%)))
[quote comment="46336"]More liwhy would bribe somebody if you’re not doing something wrong.
They share open source!!!
p.s. in soviet russia…
see this really amazing..
(edit: no I only see spam)
Spammer @#4
If bittorrent sites do have to be shut down shouldn’t it be pirate sites, not open-source sites like Andrianov’s. That would help against piracy and brandwidth throttling… but I complain if ANY bt sites are shut down…
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The all-black site of 4chan and its pro-black messages are disappointed that these Russian tracks are being shut down. This deeply saddens /mu/ as we are not only huge fans of southern, crunk hip-hop, but the cool sounds of Russian music.
/mu/ is sad. :(
fuck man where da hell im suposed to download stuff now.
oh well theres always a back door
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