SceneAccess and NFOrce Under Pressure from BREIN
Written by enigmax on May 21, 2008One of the most exclusive private torrent trackers, SceneAccess, has found itself hounded out of the Netherlands by anti-piracy outfit, BREIN. The site was hosted by NFOrce who handed over the owners details to BREIN who discovered them to be false. Worryingly, there are many other torrent sites hosted at NFOrce.
Anyone with an interest in BitTorrent sites will tell you that many of them are hosted in the Netherlands, due to what is perceived by many as a legal gray area. Dozens of sites inhabit the servers at hosts such as LeaseWeb, despite a few being kicked out or forced to move to other countries in recent months.
Known by most for its scene ‘warez’ release database hosted at NFOrce.NL, another major torrent site host is NFOrce, which gained mainstream notoriety after the OiNK tracker was busted while being hosted by the company. Now it seems that anti-piracy outfit BREIN - who received press this week for their announced legal action against BitTorrent giant mininova - has NFOrce and sites hosted there, firmly in its spotlight.
A few weeks ago NFOrce was approached by BREIN, who demanded the host to shut down SceneAccess (SCC) and hand over the identity of the site administrator. Initially, NFOrce did not respond to these demands, so in response, BREIN filed a preliminary injunction. A few days before this announcement SceneAccess mysteriously went down, with NFOrce claiming this was unrelated to BREIN.
Despite the fact that SceneAccess had moved to a new host outside The Netherlands, BREIN did not back off, and still demanded the customer information. Now, just days before the court hearing, NFOrce handed over the name and address information for the owner of SceneAccess which, luckily for them, turned out to be false.
The court case scheduled for today has now been canceled. BREIN claims that they are still owed costs relating to the case, but nonetheless, they are happy that their tactics of host-threatening are working, as other sites - and there are many of them - are said to be leaving NFOrce.
BREIN director Tim Kuik says that they don’t want hosts such as NFOrce “to be a safe haven for sites and servers that illegally offer movies, music, games and other interactive software”, whilst omitting to mention that BitTorrent sites host no infringing material. Going on to expand on the scope of operations, Kuik says: “These include bittorrent sites, edonkey, ftp servers and servers that carry out illegal activities. It is not the technology [at fault] but what those sites and servers do with that technology. If that is unlawful or invasive than we take action. The hosting provider will be asked to take the site or server offline, and tell us who their customer is.”
BREIN would like to hold hosts liable for on-going damages if they keep torrent sites running when it becomes clear they are in possession of false contact details. NFOrce was encouraged to find additional information which would help in tracking down the owner of SceneAccess and hand it to BREIN, which it did. This information is still being checked, but will likely lead BREIN into another dead end, especially if the tone of the SceneAccess owner is taken into consideration:
“Well as some of you already know, BREIN threatened our host (NFOrce), and we had to move. We are currently on a temporary server, we will move to a new server (in a safe location) in the next few days. There’s nothing to worry about, our database server wasn’t on NFOrce, and we securely deleted (38 passes) all files from nforce before we left. We might have some downtime at some point (because of the move from the temp server to the new server) but keep seeding because, we are not going anywhere”
After the initial panic and worry of pending legal action, champagne bottles will probably be metaphorically cracked open but sadly for them, BREIN won’t be getting drunk, at least not in celebration. SceneAccess is no longer hosted in the Netherlands, so BREIN can be congratulated for changing the location of the server, but without affecting the operational capability of the site - or identifying the owner.
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We need to start a social/political movement in opposition to these greedy companies and in support of true freedom.
You know what we do not have enough of that those bullshit media companies have more than enough of? PROPAGANDA! We must have more propaganda telling the TRUTH instead of LIES. Inform the public with propaganda, telling the truth of the evils of the media companies.
LMFAO
I remember that site
i was one of the first members on there
They stole all of there releases
They were one of the Pay-To-Leech sites.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA
of course the feckin name is false, u got to be outta ure fuckin mind to provide true information to ure host if u run a torrent site.
lol.. they keep trying at Brein.. sites like Demonoid and BitHQ and others were all ‘under attack’ by Brein. They all moved but lot’s of them (at least not the previous mentioned ones) were offline forever like they hoped for.
Brein is constantly saying stuff like ‘its a victory’ and lots of other stuff but in the end they seriously lose coz their ‘problem’ isn’t solved, it just moved to another country with just as much accessibility to all of us.
Always fun with those people of Brein lol.. what a losers.
Kinda funny how BREIN only managed to keep scc offline for 3 hours or so. Really shows how smart those guys are lol.
http://www.freethescene.net
Not that I’m encouraging anyone to kick his ass, but it seems clear that the tighter these asshats twist the screws the more likely that these publicly known individuals will increasingly need to watch their back.
Sooner or later they are going to bankrupt or jail the wrong person and that person or their friends will be seeking some major payback.
[quote]We need to start a social/political movement in opposition to these greedy companies and in support of true freedom.[/quote]
It’s called socialism.
SUCK MY FUCKING DICK BREIN LOL!!
@34
Not socialism, cultural freedom.
Let there be a call to the revolution of the arts and culture. I declare that what is desperately needed and should have already come, is a movement in support of freedom of culture. Let us begin our resistance!
I hate scc anyway…
Almost all of us are proposing for some kinda social,cultural movement but how do we get started ?? Should we get a website or a forum started to begin with ? I mean , seriously I think its high time we guyz get together n do something bout it… Wat say ppl ??
@netuser123
Something in REAL-LIFE
Parades, and marches, rally up the support. Political advocacy, and such. Plan real-life parades, marches, and mass gatherings.
So are we just going to plan such a movement here, or will there be a separate website?
You can see how BRIEN works: Make threats, publicize them, then use that to recruit their own members.
I suggest we show BRIEN for what they are and make association with BRIEN about as cool as Goatse. Boycott BRIEN members. Attack them personally, the way they attack torrent sites. Give as good as you get.
haha- legend that they gave out false details! Just keep infuriating BREIN
I didn’t even know SceneAccess existed. Thank you Brein for informing me=)
hmmm. what’s there ? is it even a tracker ?
Im glad SceneAccess didnt just sit around on there asses waiting to be owned, they skipped right on outa there, peace biotches!
So much talk and no action?
What’s gotten into their heads to suddenly get out of their lazy chair and harass people all of a sudden?
BREIN should just stick to their boring warnings on the DVD’s nobody buys.
But wait! There’s more! Wait untill Peter R. de Vries gets into this mess in search for more sensation-tv!
Good point, most_uniQue. Now, what BREIN actually did is make a nice advertisement for SceneAccess. Nice job, BREIN.
BREIN are dope injection brain damaged assfuckers! They get it from behind!
@24 the rule isnt jsut to stay under the RIAA radar. :)
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