SceneTorrents BitTorrent Tracker Shuts Down
Written by Ernesto on November 28, 2009In a week where BitTorrent already lost its largest torrent indexer Mininova, a well-known private tracker has also announced that it will cease its operations. Rumors that the shutdown is related to the bust of the topsite LOOP earlier this week remain unconfirmed.
SceneTorrents (ScT) has been a respected and well-connected private BitTorrent tracker for more than four years. An invite for the tracker was hard to find, but the lucky few that did get in had little to complain about, until today that is.
A few hours ago ScT put up a sad and unexpected announcement for its 20,000 members, as the site’s operators have decided to close the site for good tomorrow. Thus far the staff refuses to comment on the reason for the shutdown, which has resulted in widespread rumors among the site’s users.
ScT announces that it will close the site tomorrow at 10PM GMT.
Some rumors say that the end of ScT may be related to the raid of a topsite in The Netherlands earlier this week. According to the Dutch news site Tweakers, the ‘ranked’ topsite LOOP had its servers raided in Amsterdam, where 40 terabytes of data was stored. LOOP was (supposedly) one of SceneTorrent’s main content provider according to insiders.
According to other rumors, the shutdown could be a planned operation instead of a response to the raided topsite. In the last weeks the site has encouraged its members to donate, offering double rewards for those who pay up, allegedly raking in as much as $10,000.
Thus far both rumors remain unconfirmed, and the same is true for an eBay auction of the site that went up a few hours ago. Since the staff of the site is not talking, it will probably remain unknown why the site will close its doors now, or what their underlying motivation is.
Update: FSF published a short chat with ScT owner ‘Feeling’ who confirmed that the shutdown is not a hoax.
Update: A new staff message claims that the shutdown is due to legal issues.
By now most of you already know that ScT will be going offline permanently.
However, due to pending legal issues, we are not at liberty to speak freely about why we’ve chosen to take down the site.
Members of our staff were arrested and will be undergoing the entire length of the judicial process.
Obviously, in the case of criminal proceedings, it would be downright foolish to comment any further on the situation;Please bear this in mind and wish them the best of luck.
There have been several theories as to where the donation money (of the recent months) has gone. We’d like to take this opportunity to put all skepticism to rest.
The money was used to purchase new hardware that would ensure our spot as the fastest tracker on the net.
You are free to perform whatever calculations you feel necessary, but in doing so it should become very clear that running a site of this stature costs money.
We feel the overwhelming cynicism is just a product of bad timing compounded with general frustration caused by the current situation.We sincerely hope that you’ve enjoyed being a part of our wonderful community over the past 4 1/2 years.
We’ve certainly enjoyed our members letting us be of service. We’ve always felt our user base played an equally important role in making SceneTorrents.org a model environment in the torrent world.The staff would also like to express their gratitude to fellow trackers for their support in such a chaotic time. Several well known communities have voluntarily opened their doors, and have offered our former users a new home. We appreciate the courtesy and acknowledge the steps being taken to move forward collectively as a community. Your assistance does not go unrecognized.
//ScT Staff
Previously: IsoHunt Asks Court to Legalize Its Operations
Next: Anti-Piracy Outfits Demand Cash Without Proof
179 Responses
Sad news.
Btw first :]
Yep i donated myself… I have no problem with it though from that perspective.
What a sad day.
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It won’t be long before sneakernet and mobile device/harddrive random searches, like DUI roadblocks, become commonplace and accepted by all.
Driving drunk is illegal, and reasonable cause is well established by precedent and the courts have found these searches completely legal. Good. Keeps the drunk drivers on their toes. So it will be with your portables. Better have the factory watermarks or there goes your ipod. lol
“Pull ‘em out and spread ‘em.”
Interesting, and proves a point. While the P2P system may get more decentralized as time goes on, we still heavily rely on Topsites and High Ranking warez communities in order to get original material. When these sites get taken offline and the folks arrested, it does hurt the torrent mainstream later on.
For those of you who think that warez sites are crap and bittorrent is much better, let this be a lesson of just how closely the two are related.
if only all the stupid invite only sites just opened all over the world together to the public it would be impossible totally impossible to kill the entire planet when it come to torrents.
but as it stands all invite only is doing is restricting millions on millions of users across the world when they could all come together an unite
in simple terms we are doing breins and mpaaa/riaa’s work for them by keeping millions on millions out it’;s millions they don’t have to worry about chasing making it so much easier to stamp out.
imagine if blogs, forums, and other websites all did this stupid insane invite only crap there would be no need to kill piracy or file sharing the owners will be helping the industry to win the fight as it is.
invite only private sites is going to kill torrents dead because of their stupid elitist attitudes.
Filesharing torrents p2p is for everyone not just specially selected people.
I am missing the Firefox AllPeers plugin more and more these days!
This is such a shock for one of the top private trackers out there.
That said, if they were stupid enough to operate from the Netherlands then they were always going to get shut down.
Somewhere like North Korea is the only safe place left to operate a torrent site these days!
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@GrX
There are reasons why the topsites are invite only, and so well protected. Think about what you just said, if the MPAA / RIAA had direct access to the same sites the providers use, it’d be Christmas for them. If they could track these providers that easy, before long we’d have no torrents to share, nothing left to seed but a few 80 remix’s. The invite only system acts as a proxy, or a VPN for the providers. By limiting direct access it creates a safety net, even if it can be broken at times it often takes years to get to that level.
Take some time to look at the entire system, and the reasons for it, before you go ranting. The Pirate Bay is great, but they aren’t the ones that release the torrents weeks before the movie premiers ;-)
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This has been quite a good week for p2p eh?
* TPB shuts down its tracker
* Mininova goes legal-only
* ScT gets shut down
* LOOP topsite gets raided
* ISOHunt appeals to the Canadaian courts
* Release blogs like scenereleases.info are getting takedown notices
Carry on ^_^
Fuck your scenetorrents, and other insecure money-hungry P2Ls.
Sad, yet so very unsurprising to see that a rather high-ranked topsite was connected directly to them.
These people do not and never did deserve to be a part of the scene.
Note that the affiliates on that shitfest did not know about the scenetorrents links. Good luck to them all: iNFAMOUS JUMANJi LOL NLiSO PRO RAZOR1911 REPLiCA STRiKE TOPAZ WiiZARD
it’s all bad news again, DAMN IT ¬_¬
one of the many problems with ‘private’ trackers: if the tracker goes down, all the torrents on the tracker die with it since DHT/PEX aren’t allowed
this is why you should never donate to a website and expect services from it. they can do what they like.
SceneTorrents = Mininova?
Wow! Who knew?
#8 is right!
The elitism on a majority of the the private torrent sites has gotten out of control.
Yes, it does help with security but when everyone is always asking to get into (X-tracker) because it’s impossible to get into, it always raises higher attention.
@16,
Not really. As long as you have the torrent file, you can use http://www.torrenteditor.com to change the tracker. And then start seeding.
(Hi, Torrentfreak, sorry to publish a website here. I know it is rude. I am not owner of this site and I have no interest in it).
More for the benefit of everybody. If you know php coding, you can download the source code from that site. The code is very cool, very clean and efficient.
You certainly can use them for the second generation of torrent website.
And here is a good news.
I have downloaded 1,150,000 torrent files from Mininova.org before it went erasing all of them.
I save the torrent planet!!!
” if only all the stupid invite only sites just opened all over the world together to the public it would be impossible totally impossible to kill the entire planet when it come to torrents.
but as it stands all invite only is doing is restricting millions on millions of users across the world when they could all come together an unite
in simple terms we are doing breins and mpaaa/riaa’s work for them by keeping millions on millions out it’;s millions they don’t have to worry about chasing making it so much easier to stamp out.
imagine if blogs, forums, and other websites all did this stupid insane invite only crap there would be no need to kill piracy or file sharing the owners will be helping the industry to win the fight as it is.
invite only private sites is going to kill torrents dead because of their stupid elitist attitudes.
Filesharing torrents p2p is for everyone not just specially selected people.”
^^^ Loser who can’t find invites.
And I also have 800,000 torrent files from thepiratebay.
So, I claim I have 2,000,000 torrent files on my home machines.
I will setup my site soon in mainland China, where, the law is and will be protecting index site.
Chinese government do’t care about MPAA/CRIA, and USA,UK government.
This is bullshit, whyyyyyyyyyyyyy, where will I go now? I’ve been on ScT for a couple years, this is the worst news since OiNK got shut down.
@One Eyed Willy
You act like most of the highest release groups are known to the public… the tag that often appears on torrents aren’t the tags of the original people. Almost all of these are just re-tags, whether for security or for personal gain, it doesn’t matter. The highest sites don’t have 20,000 users, or much less 100. They are usually extremely private and use weird domain names. I’ve even seen a few that require you to use a VPN service provided by them just to access to the site, they’ve got it limited to just 1 or 2 IP Addresses for extra security.
You can yell all you want about not being able to get into private sites, but it doesn’t really matter. Everything leaks down the system in due time, everything.
LMFAO!!!
ScT is a n00b website, you got pwned all day everyday by sceneaccess!!!
0-Sec NIGGAS!
http://pastebin.ca/1691541
This is the reason…
People are posting this in sct forums but all of the links of quotes are getting removed and some users have even been banned.
Rip sct. People that wern’t a member have kno idea how bloody hard it was to get a invite to that place.
Also people that nock the scene need to remember that 99.999% of the time its scene > torrents.
To the torrentsite owners:
As the climate changed and we are expecting a nuclear winter of torrent community, so please open up your website for web crawlers, this will allow us to back up each other in case one site goes down will drag the whole p2p world with it.
I have found some websites have restriction for the overall download ( times ) for a given IP address, it makes my crawler not working very well on some famous site.
Although I have faked my IP address by using lot of different hacking skills but there is one site, my crawler just can not download more than 300 torrent files a day.
I can assure you that as long as your site is online, I will not publish any torrent file downloaded from your site.
If you are readying this and understand what I am talking about, you should remove the restriction now.
I just want to be your back up server.
Can this get any worse?
THE PASTE BIN IS FAKE :D
The pastebin link that’s swirming around is fake, it’s several months old too, made around june, so it’s all bullshit. Jealous guys that try to spread bad rumors that’s not true…
the pastebin link is fake, and was 1st posted many months ago, so, unrelated to sites closure
LMFAO!!!
ScT is a n00b website, you got pwned all day everyday by sceneaccess!!!
0-Sec NIGGAS!
feedthe.net
sceneaccess.org
33rd
the pastebin is fake, created by spx21 some months ago..
http://pastebin.ca/1691541
Sct owners are trying to get their members to post here saying it’s fake, but they won’t give a better reason (how convenient…)
there were doubts of fraud months ago, then the site closes after 2 months of huge donations (more than 10k€/month) !
@bittorrent forever
Can others help you in downloading torrents in any way? Maybe by using your crawler?
We need some sort of new decentralized bittorent method of downloading.
this is the best site in the world better than all the crap trackers that have been closed recently…. it will be missed on the internet as lot of the torrents on the are from ScT
RIP ScT you will be missed
mininova
@Pirated.me
ScT and other “private trackers” are NO topsites. 0-day trackers leak stuff, comparable to public trackers.
Restrictive Filesharing shoots itself in the foot.
@ 37
How about you STFU.
sceneaccess.org releases before topsites nigga.
What if torrent download software was able to easily shift between trackers and identify other trackers offering the same torrent…
E.x. You download a torrent from Tracker 1, and the software figures out Trackers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 all have the same torrents. And, it allowed you to share with those peers.
It would make each torrent less dependent on a single tracker and wouldn’t require any editing of torrent files.
It would make the torrent community much stronger and make it less important for the authorities to shut down a single tracker.
Just an idea. There’s probably better ideas out there, but I figure I’d throw my thoughts out there.
w
who? we are so many ,, i can’t keep up?? :D
@SomeONE
No, they’re not topsites. However they do play a part in the releasing, or rather leaking. Chances are a few of the “releasers” on any given bittorrent site get their material from topsites, or from people who know people who know people that have friends… it’s a system. The many layers of sites to go through add protection, if the providers uploaded all their content to The Pirate Bay they’d be arrested within a week.
Private sites do their job, they add extra protection and false leads to protect those who provide the content originally.
PolishTracker giving out free invites to ex ScT members
http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/sct-tracker-scenetorrents-to-shut-down.html
And another one bites the dust: FTWR!
Check it out!
the invite only has to stop its killing filesharing it’s keeping millions of people out.
in 6 months time when no sites exist and everything has shut down you only have yourself to blame by making it so easy for the industry to stop us.
if DHT/PEX was allowed SCT would of gone down but every single file would of still been available thus pointless them taking sites offline if they cannot take down DHT or PEX but now because of the stupid rules
Everything is gone all wasted trillions of files and media gone (yes they exist on hdd’s but they don’t exist no longer on the network)
if every site stoped this bs of invite only and block millions of people out we wouldn’t even be having this topic millions more sites would spring up.
you cannot have a hydra or win the war when your killing millions of potential filesharers we are the internet and you idiots are stoping us from multiplying.
you only have yourself to blame for all this with this invite private crap
its now come back to bite you in the ass
Sucks to hear about another site going down.. :(
DH is open signups if anyone wants to check it out.. http://www.digitalhive.org ScT members welcome! We may not be the same but would be glad to have you guys as members!
Well, it doesn’t really matter if there’s a private site or some pay-for server in between. From my impression, private trackers play a negligible effect on public releases.
Anyway, you never really know which way something got, and it can be different with every leak.
lol, torrents
Fu?k your scenetorrents and other money-hungry louses.
The people who ran this P2L ?hitfe?t did not deserve to be a part of the scene, I hope every sysop, siteop and mod involved goes to jail.
My sympathies go out to the affil groups who got fu?ked by these backstabbers.
iNFAMOUS JUMANJi LOL NLiSO PRO Razor1911 Replica STRiKE TOPAZ WiiZARD
PT hands out invites for proved SCT-members on IRC.
The reasons private trackers are better than public:
A) Content heavily moderated. Less crap. High quality. (generally)
B) Protection from anti piracy orgs as mentioned above.
C) Keeps at least some of the riff raff out of the site. For example, cheaters and people unable to hold a firm ratio and give back to the community.
The system works and I’ll bet that the main ones speaking out about it are people frustrated by the fact that they didn’t know somebody to get them into XYZ site.
I hear some rumors on the uh…internets!
lol and the idiots continue with Invites for proved SCT members you people just will not learn, the invite private is whats killing the torrent community instead of changing the “trend” you will keep shooting yourself with a loaded gun.
talk about backwards thinking now all the sites thats open to new users will go invite only there’s another 10 million restricted sharers lol
and when its all too late you’ll all be like uh, eh,.. how did this happen.
next is torrentleech SCL and other ubber private no body can get in sites.
but wait .. if invites are handed out at over 100 different invite forums and sites designed for invite trading what the hell is the point of locking people out lol
doesn’t it dissolve the whole purpose? once 1 invite is given to the wrong person or sold to the wrong person they are then in.
how to stop this mess now
1.) stop the invite let the world in
2.) enable DHT/PEX remove the private flags,
3.) drop ratio’s drop registration
if millions of sites did this the industry brein mpaa/riaa and all the other cretins would have a real fight on their hands.
as it is right now there laughing their asses off since 70% of the could be community is excluded.
but as history will show in year or so to come nothing will change the same mistakes will be made to the very end.
All trackers thats been shutdown or closed should donate their source to the community so others can then fire up the hydra again this never happens.
millions of torrent sites but a very very few torrent tracker scripts.
Wow, a site actually shutting down and that is actually worth a $hit on TF, this is new.
This is sad to see happen. SCT was respected and prestiged tracker that was head and shoulders above most and had a great community too.
Will be missed. RIP Sct and thankyou to all the admins and staff for everything over the years. Will be missed.
FTWR has died as well. RIP ScT and FTWR.
linking to FSF ruins the article. 90% of what is in that site is BS.
That sucks. Well at least theres thousands more to choose from like on PoT’s torrent site list.
http://www.plentyoftorrents.com/torrent-site-list
Or you can just search anything on the main page.
http://www.plentyoftorrents.com
but yes ScT is closing down. It can’t get any more official than posting in ScT frontpage.
DH is open signups if anyone wants to check it out.. http://www.digitalhive.org
New members welcome! Been around for 4 years, good community etc. Fast pretimes and fast torrents!
@39,
Changing tracker is already a feature for some Bit Torrent client. For example Transmission. You can add and remove tracker. But it only make sense sense.
1, you are a seeder, you add/change your tracker at anytime
2, If you are leecher, if you change tracker, but unfortunately, if there is no uploader on that tracker, you can not get anything. But you can add tracker to your current downloading torrent, if there is another uploader on that tracker, then you will get extra peers
SCT on sale on EBAY lol
http://cgi.ebay.com/SceneTorrents_W0QQitemZ260514568804QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca7e0da64
a little birdy gave me this link
http://pastebin.ca/1691759 tweet…tweet
TorrentLeech now giving away invites to SceneTorrents members.
http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/torrentleech-polishtracker-invite.html
You guys can try out http://www.kickasstorrents.com
This site has more than 2,500,000 torrents.
This is a new website and it is public. I still do not understand how the web owner is making money out of it because there is no Ads on this site. To host such large amount of torrents, you have to have a cluster of servers. So the monthly costs should be high.
In case the website will introduce Ads, you guys know how to support the website right? yes,click on the Ads even you are not buying anything.
And more, my concern for the website owner is that, this site is in USA, if you are charge, it could be criminal charge. You could be fined for 100M USD(like torrentspy).
So, maybe you should think about downsize the website.
SCT was a good tracker, and will be missed.
If they want to stay running, I’ll donate the hardware and bandwidth until they are up and running full steam. Also, I can can give leach on two of my topsites etc.
yocto@storethe.net
Or maybe Kickasstorrents is a honeypot!
well that’s really suck , sct stolen pples money and then ran away .
and one more thing , some pple will find torrent-invite fst and http://www.getinvite.net useful nowadays
@ 12 Pirated.me
GrX has a good point and as I’ve said before if I can get an invite so can the scum that Reasoned Mind works for, and where as open trackers delete log’s private trackers don’t.
@ 6 Reasoned retard
The world is full of watermark/drm free legit music files so therefore a lack of a watermark means nothing, kiss my balls and f*ck off knobhead
The closing of SceneTorrents is a cover for V2 http://www.shareimage.ro/images/awbrlh4ytaxywts4n40h.png
GrX your a complete idiot plain and simple. Your logic is retarded and it makes no sense. If everything was as public as you want, then it would give riaa and mpaa more and more people to bust. It would give shitty ass lawyers like davenport more reasons to send out shitty c+d letters. Not only that but you remove ratio rules you loose speed and seeders plain and simple. No ratio = no reason to seed, no reason to seed means torrents die quicker. Public sites always have been much slower, because there is no rules, you also get crap renamed bad broken files. Private sites have rules for a reason if people really wanted it your way it would be, but they don’t. So stop crying about how crap private sites are and go back to tpb.
#39 try http://bitsnoop.com/ this is a good representation of what you describe. also very good speeds.
@65,
I am not sure about it.
I checked the cubestat.com, the kickasstorrents.com has been around for 6 years.
It was pron website before.
The earliest history is here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070613033540/http://kickasstorrents.com/
Then, in 2008, likely closed down for a while.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080411212849/http://www.kickasstorrents.com/
Now, it is torrent index site. It claims it has 9,500,000 torrents on site. http://www.kickasstorrents.com/stats.html
But, you can only find 2,500,000,maybe the website has not uploaded all the torrents up to server yet.
I do not think this site is a setup from FBI. That will be genius idea,
A quote from MyCE…
Watermarked music worse than DRM’d music?
ScT will be missed. </3
poo
http://www.plentyoftorrents.com
Seems really popular now I think I’ll go there.
@50 John says:
“C) Keeps at least some of the riff raff out of the site. For example, cheaters and people unable to hold a firm ratio and give back to the community.”
I’ve used both private and public sites, and your comment C is just plain wrong. Yes, private sites keep out riff raff, BUT because DHT and PEX are not enabled, there are less people to connect to. So, in the end, the negative behavior of riff raff isn’t as bad as not being able to connect to large amounts of people on private sites.
In my experience, public sites are easier to obtain AND give away files. I’ve gotten so frustrated using private sites and their tiny amount of seeds/peers. They suck. Plus, they are totally against an all inclusive “come one, come all” philosophy (which is why there are so few people to connect to).
I agree with GrX. “United we stand, DIVIDED we fall.”
Think about it!
freethescene is giving out invites to sct refugees!
join irc.freethescene.net #fts-invite and read the topic on how to gain access
Another one bites the dust. Kind of reminds me of Oink when it went the way of the wind. Too bad really. Just when you think your site is impenetrable… along come the internet police. RIP, ScT.
The sites come and go. Sct had a ton of hipe but there are many much older and even bigger private sites that also have CrAzy speed and TV and Movies within hours of opening. Not saying it’s true, but it sure seems like ScT liked the hipe and was just in it to make a buck, SELLING INVITES near the end. Glad I never bothered getting an invite at the opening. The best private trackers are the ones you will never here about on any news site or public bittorrent forum. Sorry, ScT members but it’s happened to me so many times that I avoid the hiped sites and stick to reliable safe private sites instead.
One thing Bittorrent history has told us, is that if your ranked #1, you will be closing soon.
KEEP IT SAFE. KEEP IT SECRET.
Where the hell do we go now?? :[
guys private /public as long as we can still download stuff who cares the people who complane about private sites are jealous they cant get in lol
Looking for a private tracker with great pre times, fast speeds and a friendly community?
irc.TopBytes.Net #TB-Invite
Private sites have limited funds, so limited sized servers…more users==bigger servers==larger bills.
So they limit the amount of members to try keep the costs down…invite only.
And to all those noobs that think private tracker sites are making a killing…ads and affils are garbage for money making..1,000,000 clicks for $1. The vast majority of private sites rely soley on donations.
Its very easy to think you know what your talking about until you try running your own site.
There are very good reasons for private trackers, but most of you are hit n runners, so you prefer your public ones…stay there, we dont want you.
It’s brein again…
http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/brein-takes-down-loop-topsite.html
@ astrospliff
Don’t you mean brein dead again?
Cough! Cough! ‘ear dude take this!
DH is open signups if anyone wants to check it out.. http://www.digitalhive.org
New members welcome! Been around for 4 years, good community etc. Fast pretimes and fast torrents!
There are very good reasons for private trackers, but most of you are hit n runners, so you prefer your public ones…stay there, we dont want you.
QFT. +1
we are the community;
we are the internet, we are roughly 60-70% of the traffic,
yes to files-haring, p2p ;D
yes to torrents, dht, pex, magnet links,
yes to public and private site’s,
without us it all falls apart, so if we don”t like let’s change it. when they think they know, we change game.
files are larger, downloads take longer, sites and invites are starting to show-up and go down like hookers at the bus station.
like the line goes, we have the technology and the knowledge.
yeah, open source, bit-torrent client’s, ftp, http, and ssl… an all that. it’s been a nice ride, but its time to see the road ahead before they detour us off a cliff.
just a thought, along the lines of magnetizing. help me out; every site log-in, user, or client program… allow the community to act as the site or back-up for the site. i don’t know, but i know its our game, if we don’t step up, we lose. it’s time to upgrade or build a new ship!!! lol ;D
http://bitmedino.darkbb.com/forum.htm
try this
http://tehconnection.eu for all your movie needs since ScT is down.
They immediately disabled donations after the announcement, so I don’t think they’re doing it for the money.
lol who in there right mind says that public tracker is better then private lol, whats the point connecting to 100 people with 20kbps upload speed when you can connect to 2 people with 1gps pipes that is the diffrence between private or should i say decent private and public
here is aexample
Cops.S22E11.720p.HDTV.x264-2HD Uploaded 49 seconds after pre(insane pr times)
size \ Download speed
706.40 MB 30.71 MB/s
show me one public torrent that is this fast ?
Heaventracker is offering invites on their irc for sct users.
Almost 18,000 torrents: english, german, polish and others. Great pre times, multi-national community and staff is one of the most friendliest out there.
server: irc.vaultnet.org
channel: #ht-invite
http://warez.sivu.be
Our community will support SCT refugees
Where is the future of p2p?
Here is it.
I did some search today, I feel TorrentFreak should do some research on this topic.
Is waula the BitTorrent 2.0 and P2P’s future?
Please refer http://www.wuala.com
Very interesting, very impressive!
now if we can scrape our fav’s. an store the backup’s, i wonder if i’d have a smaller file, just by scrapping the magnet link’s? hhmmm ;D
@ #93 i’m sure it look’s promising, after all we lose a lot of effort contributing. public or private i do think we have a vested interest in some kind of backup strategy. sorry to hear the bad news, but what about everyone who up-ed to them.
question, will other trackers step-in to help, like when tpb went down in aug.
LMFAO!!!
ScT is a n00b website, you got pwned all day everyday by sceneaccess!!!
0-Sec NIGGAS!!!
feedthe.net
sceneaccess.org
a new home could be http://fatal-attraction.in it may not be ScT or FTWR but you are all welcome open signup for next 2 weeks
The Auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/SceneTorrents_W0QQitemZ260514568804QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca7e0da64
Being a member of ScT, SCC, TB, TL etc, ScT was the site I always went to first for my needs. Great Pre times and download speeds. Definitely was the best site out there.
R.I.P ScT!
ScT was definitely number 1…
Today private site torrentkings.org announced that they will be shutting down the site as well.
A very sad day indeed.
Ive just heard that blackcatgames is closing down also.
WTF is going on?
http://paste2.org/p/538613
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By now most of you already know that ScT will be going offline permanently.
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However, due to pending legal issues, we are not at liberty to speak freely about why we’ve chosen to take down the site.
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Members of our staff were arrested and will be undergoing the entire length of the judicial process.
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Obviously, in the case of criminal proceedings, it would be downright foolish to comment any further on the situation;
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Please bear this in mind and wish them the best of luck.
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There have been several theories as to where the donation money (of the recent months) has gone. We’d like to take this opportunity to put all skepticism to rest.
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The money was used to purchase new hardware that would ensure our spot as the fastest tracker on the net.
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You are free to perform whatever calculations you feel necessary, but in doing so it should become very clear that running a site of this stature costs money.
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We feel the overwhelming cynicism is just a product of bad timing compounded with general frustration caused by the current situation.
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We sincerely hope that you’ve enjoyed being a part of our wonderful community over the past 4 1/2 years.
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We’ve certainly enjoyed our members letting us be of service. We’ve always felt our user base played an equally important role in making SceneTorrents.org a model environment in the torrent world.
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The staff would also like to express their gratitude to fellow trackers for their support in such a chaotic time. Several well known communities have voluntarily opened their doors, and have offered our former users a new home.
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We appreciate the courtesy and acknowledge the steps being taken to move forward collectively as a community. Your assistance does not go unrecognized.
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//ScT Staff
ScT’s IRC went INVITATION ONLY again… something suspicious going on. Probably they aren’t shutting down and did it for getting attention?
a new home could be http://fatal-attraction.in it may not be ScT or FTWR but you are all welcome open signup for next 2 weeks:)
By now most of you already know that ScT will be going offline permanently.
However, due to pending legal issues, we are not at liberty to speak freely about why we’ve chosen to take down the site.
Members of our staff were arrested and will be undergoing the entire length of the judicial process.
Obviously, in the case of criminal proceedings, it would be downright foolish to comment any further on the situation;
Please bear this in mind and wish them the best of luck.
There have been several theories as to where the donation money (of the recent months) has gone. We’d like to take this opportunity to put all skepticism to rest.
The money was used to purchase new hardware that would ensure our spot as the fastest tracker on the net.
You are free to perform whatever calculations you feel necessary, but in doing so it should become very clear that running a site of this stature costs money.
We feel the overwhelming cynicism is just a product of bad timing compounded with general frustration caused by the current situation.
We sincerely hope that you’ve enjoyed being a part of our wonderful community over the past 4 1/2 years.
We’ve certainly enjoyed our members letting us be of service. We’ve always felt our user base played an equally important role in making SceneTorrents.org a model environment in the torrent world.
The staff would also like to express their gratitude to fellow trackers for their support in such a chaotic time. Several well known communities have voluntarily opened their doors, and have offered our former users a new home.
We appreciate the courtesy and acknowledge the steps being taken to move forward collectively as a community. Your assistance does not go unrecognized.
//ScT Staff
WTF? This was damned week for Torrent – community…. But we are still alive!
PhoenixBG.eu has open for sign up.
Available free places are ~5000
We at dirty-deeds are willing to take on any users, staff members, and especially and uploaders ask to speak to onecowboytoo or controller2 in the irc channel.
I expect that Torrents will be dead in 2.5 years from now. They are raiding more and more sites, more and more shut down :(
tsk, cowardly actions..
but i guess it’s for the best.
p2p 2.0 here we come
for torrents http://www.zamunda.net and http://arenabg.com
Freedom dies on our eyes.
you say the only people crying is those people who can’t get in? well sorry but what makes you all lord high and mighty to be on the pedistal?
The whole idea behind torrent was not to restrict half the world from doing what the “lucky” people are doing.
it makes no difference to me the money i would of given to donations i use on filehost sites and usenet so content wise i get alot more benefit than you elitist people.
no uploading no breaking the law filesharing no isp to send me letters since i’m not re-distributing no risk of being banned or disabled for not keeping some stupid 1.1 ratio which can be near impossible on 10-20gb packs.
yea i’m crying :)
My point is invite only private sites are whats going to end torrents not talking about Private with signups for the world thats fine but all this invite restrict everyone is getting out of hand.
just imgine forums, blogs, websites doing the same thing it would be useless for a person to have fast broadband anymore there’d be nothing to use it on lol.
For the people saying were crying because we can’t get in its great saying that when you are in a good community init? tell you what delete your account and welcome to the boat the rest of us are in, you’d feel the exact same way and struggle like hell to find a way in.
then you would realise what i’m saying you’d then be visiting invite forums and websites begging looking for invites paying for invites then you would understand what i’m on about these people giving away invites to millions of people they dont even know or never speak to before could be anyone.
if they are going to be doing this then it really serves no purpose being invite only since all joe blow has to do is hang around in a forum for someone to give them an invite lol … wow an extra couple of steps for the industry to get in big deal? once their in thats it game over.
now if every single torrent site went public thats hundreds of millions of sites with PEX/DHT/Magnet enabled
their would be no point them shutting down indexing sites as the content would already be out there which couldn’t be stopped lol
you people just cannot see the woods for the trees.
to 113 Nov 29, 2009 at 18:53 by GrX.
yeah and then no one could get the files because the speeds are so slow when no one seeds or seeds at .5 kB/s
Then theres the viruses, trojans, corrupt files, etc. because anyone can upload without fear of getting banned for uploading shit.
@ #93
Wuala is just another form of Rapidshare.
It’s not the future when you’re using a method of file sharing from the past.
@ #91 What you’re looking at is Seedbox speeds. Show me a private tracker that has users seeding from their actual bandwith, and I’ll show you a public torrent that has insane speeds.
These are dark times for the rebellion.
Dirty Deeds will honor your ScT stats if you provide a screen shot.
@113 :
If you want the internet to be completely filtered by governments, the way you talk about is the best.
To live happy, stay hidden. That’s what private sites are about.
Besides you should worry a bit too, because newsgroups and forum uploaders get their 0day stuff at the same places as private sites do.
@115 :
Actually there is only one way to share files : someone uploads, then someone downloads.
This tracker will be remembered as a legend… it was a truly magnific community.
balh blah
the guy evaded taxes big dal he got what he deserves cause he was not doing due diligence
the guy replacing him started talking too much, end of story.
as to searches yea the economy can sustain the search and seizure of 300 million homes
WHO THE FRAK IS GONNA PAY FOR THAT
:sctlove:
Plenty more private trackers around http://www.plentyoftorrents.com/torrent-site-list-private#dir
Good news overall. Scene releases are never the best. The more private scene sites we lose, the better the quality will get. Scene releases are too fast and furious, and contain a general lack of quality control.
Warming up for operation Grand Slam in 2010
It’s only a small tracker. Don’t whine.
Reading all this private-vs-public tracker site thing makes me think about Tim Berner-Lee’s apparent vision of the web as something more like a decentralized true p2p thing, rather than, say, a company trough.
An ideal future, if there is to be one, might be true P2P without ISP’s, using white spectrum.
“The decentralized nature of wireless ad hoc networks makes them suitable for a variety of applications where central nodes [filtering/monitoring/throttling ISP's?] can’t be relied on…
Minimal configuration and quick deployment make ad hoc networks suitable for emergency situations like natural disasters or military conflicts [or malicious lawsuits?]. The presence of a dynamic and adaptive routing protocol will enable ad hoc networks to be formed quickly…
Each device in a MANET [Mobile Ad Hoc Network] is free to move independently in any direction, and will therefore change its links to other devices frequently. Each must forward traffic unrelated to its own use, and therefore be a router [who do you sue?].
One Laptop per Child program has developed a laptop making use of an IEEE 802.11s based ad hoc wireless mesh networking chip. It is the only such device sold to consumers. ”
– Wikipedia
(Flexes poodle muscles)
Really down now :(
<3
“[The leecher is] …engaging in perfectly reasonable and non-destructive behavior and the site is trying to punish him for it, thus fostering the creation of clients which lie about their statistics. This is the site’s fault, and the result could do serious damage to the value of BitTorrent statistics generally. Sites which do this are being extremely destructive, and the way they grandstand about how they’re fostering sharing really ticks me off…”
–Bram Cohen
While I’m still sitting on the fence regarding pub vs priv, the above quote does give me pause.
Also, private sites would seem to make a kind of, ironic “elitist”, “controlling”, or “limiting” sound that’s reminiscent of the industry’s– presumably from which they presumably get some of their files. But perhaps the other supposed advantages for privates make up for the above apparent disadvantages.
Well as soon as every torrent site and rapidshare site go down then the all mighty mirc will still be standing since started long before torrent and everything else except for werzs and ftp’s
Bobe-On, go away u stupid.
ya, private trackers don’t need and don’t WANT ass off leechers like u ..
so good luck with mininova and piratebay :)_
@fry:
What about Bram?
so much for private trackers being the solution to the problem
you noobs bitching and moaning about private trackers and how you can’t get in are the reason why private trackers are 100% better than any public tracker.
you are the people who leech and close your client, don’t contribute anything and are just complete leeches.
private trackers are the source of all the content on public trackers.
you really think it would be better and safer if all private trackers would let you in? people on private trackers actually invest time and money setting up seedboxes and actively try to upload more than they download.
you blind leechers make me laugh. you wouldnt last a week in a private tracker.
@ 130 lol, that is what we need, (thinking outside the box).
we could sit around and whine or cry about this site, that’s lost in the battle. if don’t co-operate, we’ll lose the war.
p.s. come to think about it, i got a couple of wireless access points and old p3’s laying around. i wander how i could get them to work with an old satellite antenna.
sort of like the ole school walkie-talkie network, when i was youngin
If they do have any money left, after the hard ware they bourt. They will be needing it for there defence in my opion.
1. How many scene groups have been busted, arrested, jailed and fined superheavy etc pp over the last 20+ years? – Who knows, quite some I guess.
2. How many p2p and/or warez related sites have been busted over the last 10+ years? – Couple here as well, dunno.
3. How many people have actually, for good and real, been impacted in ANY FRICKIN WAY WHATSOEVER in terms of any any any ANY loss of accessibility to free and illegal access to cracked / leaked / etc goods/warez at all?
- NO-FRICKIN-BODY, THAT’S HOW MANY.
And that was is and will always be the bottom line.
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Marinate on that for a century or fifty retarded mindivxsumguy and what that say about the true human nature and will for free access to information and goods.
It’s hard for me to understand why general private trackers like sct do excist in the first place, 99% from anything posted on sct or any of the other so called “good” general private trackers can also be downloaded from usenet 5 minutes later. And yes i mean any general private torrentsite, they all have the same 0day crap on them, i mean come on whats that about, thats not how bittorrent should be used.
An unlimited SSL 100 Mbit/s payserver costs ~100 euros max a year. (cheaper if you get an account you can share with friends). and then you can get 99% of all the 0day shit posted on any of those general private trackers upto 500day old without having to upload anything at all.
you can cancel your seedbox/server or turn your pc of at night, better for the planet also, people come on go green, stop bulshitting yourself, with you so called elite stuff, that isnt elitish at all.
sct also wont be remembered as a legend, lmao, i wonder if anyone on here still knows what sct was called before it was sct or what was the first so called good big general tracker that was taken down.
private sites are a joke for filesharing
@ 130, 138
there’s plenty of old hardware large and small, i say we build our net within net.
why not link site’s sort of like a webring i’ve come across on some site’s.
i think p2p 2.0 would be an excellent name for a opensource project.
ScT and others are too much to lose public or private!!! lol, we wish them well.
Sad to see SCT go down, hopefully the members and staff there never suffer any legal issues.
I would personally like to invite all SCT users and anybody to my own site at http://www.seedbytes.com
We are a new HD/HQ site that is looking to grown big and fast. Open signups at the moment
soon media will be free to all, through this wonderfull monster we call the internet! thanks to all underground geurilla dorks. UGD
i prefer private sites, less crap, faster users, stable seeds. Public ones are just lazy and un-stable, people hit-and-run all the time. so, long live torrentbytes, sceneaccess and so on.
Sorry, but I disagree with the comments that say these sites cost a lot of money to run. I own several servers, and I run a small private torrent tracker.
I would love to be in a position like ScT were where they could pull in such huge amounts of donations. I mean, you could run a site like that on $200 a month and still have change left over after that, so with the amount of money that they were bringing in from donations they will be loaded.
And if you would like to dispute this and continue to say that a torrent tracker costs a lot of money to run, please give us a breakdown of costs as I’d love to see where $10k could go into running a torrent site. 2 servers at $100 each per month would be adequate hardware for running such an enterprise, and as for bandwidth, the tracker itself isn’t very bandwidth intensive at all, and most datacenres offer virtually unlimited data plans anyway at pretty low costs.
@ david
$200 is not enough for a tracker like ScT. You need to consider the $$ for axx, seedboxes, servers, etc.
It sucks all these trackers going down. I found this one though up and coming real good site, and reg..is currently open.
http://www.trackeraccess.org
try it out.
@148
or you could join a GOOD tracker like TL or SCC with proof of ScT membership.
You will be missed :(
If any homeless sct members want in on a new specialty site come on over to
http://www.corsutscorner.com
for
Horror/Sci-Fi & Fantasy
We’d love to see you!
with people like all of you out there, thank god for usenet.
@149….sure where everyone else’s torrents end up.Good luck with that.
-Wikipedia
From this angle, a private tracker set up by the industry might be one way for the industry to make money. ;) Not so much a honey-pot, but rather, a “legal” honey-pot for making money.
At any rate, it seems that one kind of media-control (corporate copyright) is simply replaced by another kind (private tracker), which ostensibly defeats some of the point of the context of file-sharing.
I wonder how much time some of us need to go running around sniffing for invites. I’m unsure I do.
Even posting to TF is a stretch. :)
BTW, how’s the ratio-exploit software working out?
@53 way up above
YOU can also add lot less likely to have fakes and virii too.
I do not think i have got a virus form downloads in ohhh 8-9 years now….
and things have been far toooooo open for a long time and this is why so much bad press, publicity and other stuff has happened. IF you cannot get an invite to somewhere hope you know how or have at least one friend else…..
FOOK YOU , we whomever we are do not want you there
@141
TB->ET->(PT)ScT
Rip :(
And sure if you wanna P2L usenet is good/cheap.
who wants to be a member of a communty full of invite-trading kids anyway? they use every chance to make these trackers popular like mininova so imagine how they talk once they got busted.
The Death of one 0-day tracker will spawn at least 20 more 0-day trackers.
I can’t believe you guys are crying!
There are probably more 0-day trackers than there are downloaders, so quit you’re whining and start downloading!!!
I have no problem with them being arrested if they were using the donation money for their own use and not paying taxes on it.
This whole community is about sharing and if thieves like these two admins are asking for donations so they can buy cars and flat screen TV’s, then they can rot in prison.
http://www.trackeraccess.org
thanks for the link…AWSOME.
If anybody, SCT or not, is looking for a new home come check out
http://www.seedbytes.com
It is a new HD/HQ tracker
You can also try this one:
http://lasttorrents.org/
It’s a huge tracker, with lots of torrents and peers (super-fast speeds also).
Open signup at the moment. You should really check it out.
Wow so many new/no name trackers.. Go with one that is established and has been around awhile. Most new trackers die after the first month from lack of donations.
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LAWL.
http://www.digitalhive.org – Open Signups, been around 4 years, fast pretimes, fast speeds. 25k users.
http://www.trackeraccess.org
is awesome!
The Torrent Source https://thetorrentsource.org is offering good axx to any ScT members and our doors will remain open for the ones who want to join. Also we have an irc network irc.thetorrentsource.org port 6667-6669
ssl +6697
MpEgDiStRo – Owner
Im loling at the newbs that think the sct staff took peoples donations. Why do you think ScT was the fastest site around in both pres, p2p speeds, site response? Cus they put the donations back into the site where they belonged and not into their pocket.
Rofl at the guy who thinks you can run a tracker with 220,000 peers on a $100 server. Oh how little you know.
What the hell maaan :(
This is very grim news indeed ! More than 50% of all scene releases originated from ScT :/
As an ScT member for the past 4 years, I’m at a loss to new directions.. I went away on holidays and returned to nothing.
In response to all those “Scene Elitists”, there is nothing wrong with P2P.. In many cases it has been the best form of free couriering available. In the BBS days I was a scene courier for TDT & Razor and I know full well what is good for the the Scene.
RIP ScT… I’m going to miss you and my meticulously maintained 2:1 ratio
@128 : LOL you’re too silly. You’re only trying to provoke people by talking nonsense. It’s about time that the P2P-people start appreciating the scene a bit more. After all, it’s all the public and “private” bittorrent-sites that endanger the scene.
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The only reason ScT was tight to get into was because you had to buy invites by donating, it wasn’t a closed community it’s simply that people don’t give away stuff they have to pay for.
Not nice to see the site go down but not the end of the world either plenty o places to go.
shitttt
You people are all blind, wake up for a little bit, dont you see whats happening?…Its not only private sites are closing its lots of them shuting down. We have to search who is doeing this and why, not to stupidly argue about its because its private or not. Mininova great site, publicly open, with no restrictions whatsoever is dead. Dont know in what interests this is done but there is something in the midle of all this, something that doesnt want us to be free, something that is turning off the lite, something that fucks with us like little mice in a laboratory labirint. And they are up for changing the whole sistem of how we live our lives….LOOK at the ENTIRE PICTURE IF YOU WANNA MAKE A SMART DECISION, and not be blind dragged through the darkness of slavery
WTF
http://www.p2pworlds.co.uk doors are open people signup
PUSSY
seedfreaks.org
german heil!
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