Seedler Down: Collateral Damage
Written by Ernesto on June 05, 2006A lot of fuss these days about The Piratebay raid, but nobody ever mentioned anything about seedler.org. Seedler, another BitTorrent site hosted at PRQ, has been taken down as collateral damage.
No word from them ever since…
Seedler started their BitTorrent site about a year ago and became quite popular within the next few months, settling among [...]
A lot of fuss these days about The Piratebay raid, but nobody ever mentioned anything about seedler.org. Seedler, another BitTorrent site hosted at PRQ, has been taken down as collateral damage.
No word from them ever since…
Seedler started their BitTorrent site about a year ago and became quite popular within the next few months, settling among the top 5000 sites on the web according to alexa.
It is unclear how the illegitimate confiscation of seedlers server, that was intended to bring down the Pirate Bay, will affect seedlers future. Let’s wait and see.
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once again another good site gone because greedy music execs and Bands how many time do we need another greatest hit by any band if these people would lower the price on CD’s then maybe peer to peer sites would not exits
Hopefully all servers etc will be returned..
It not a matter of if, but more like a matter of when - and how much in compensation for the illegal act perpitrated by these retards. Coercision and extortion of the affected sites and their ISP’s won’t be taken too lightly - I mean look at the public outcry @ taking down the big-bad TPB.
When will the MPAA and their cronies in the U.S. guv’mint learn that just because you don’t like something, it doesn’t give you the right to trample all over others rights (especially those of foreign nationals)? Then again this is just a bump in the road to the *AAs..Idiotic charades like these only serve to piss off judges over there, and each time puts another nail in their coffin, but the mobsters will just keep buying off the politicians in Sweden (and elsewhere) until they get their way (by either force or new regulations - look @ US w/ DMCA and possibly upcoming “DMCA v2.0″.
It’s funny really all this has done is HIGHLY publicize an issue that’s already an uphill battle for the Copywrong Mifia in Sweden. The Swedish gov’t, police and other involved will end up having to fork out god knows how much in reparations to site owners (and thier ISPs)..TPB is back up and running (even b4 most of the collateral damage)..And lots of people have signed onto a probably otherwise until until now unknown political party, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get at least a few candidates ELECTED directly because of what’s happened here - in which case these wankers will be FORCED to listen to those dirty pirates. Comical really - it reads like a crappy nerd comedy movie version of Keystone cops or something..In fact, it would be funny as hell if something like this got made - I’d go see it, so long as the MAFFIAs had nothing to do w/ it.
Hey,
Thanks for the great coverage of piratebay, and now seedler. It’s good that someone is telling it like it is. A lot of the big news agencies are putting a lot of negative spin on the whole thing.
oh no.. and what about my favorite site. asiandvdclub.org they also got shut down.. fucking swedish police lamers
WTF is the 1st guy ‘Bert the Fart’ talking about?! CDs are the cheapest they have been for yonks! You can get a brand new CD just released for £6-8 in the UK, THEY HAVE OBVIOUSLY LISTENED! This argument is flawed now because it doesnt reflect reality, at least in the UK. Just be honest and say u want to download nicked stuff rather than blame the execs for something they are not doing anymore! I bet you have not looked at the price of a CD for years you scrounger! Watch out for that glass roof!
Dan u wanker wth u on about brand new cds cost like £12-£15 u gay sodd anyways who needs to download music from torrent?? and the reason we r all so upset is cuz we want games and tv shows that r relased out in american be4 shitty england gets there hands on the shitty rights ( like a year later) so i recommend this
just wait another good torrent site will come out in time just hav to wait!! oh and please swedish police shut down pirate bay its crap!!!!!
Dan 8 pounds is hell lot of money where I live :D
“pirate bay its crap”? What are you talking about? Did you bump that warp head again?
Straight up the Nova’s down?!?! Man I want break bones.. I used it to download American TV shows when i couldn’t be assed to wait for them to come out in the UK. Where the monkey jiz am I going to get them now? Any ideas. If anyone says Pirate bay, i’ll crap in a box and set fire to it. Thanks!
The new global terrorists are Right Wing White American Corporation, they blind your eyes and steal your dreams..
as seedler staff, I was as supprised at the site going down, and sure hope the servers are returned.
However, even if they are not, I’m sure seedler will find a new home soon. Both seedler.org, and forum.seedler.org were first rate, and had a huge following.
I am questioned every day about whats up with seedler, and all I can do is wait.
I am however certain that seedler will be back, and in a big way, so rest easy, and come join in the party when things are restored.
donb
seedler its the best bring it back………..
Hey I’m from Canada and I just recently started using seedler. It’s a great site for big files like let’s say movies or seasons to anime. I usually use Ares which is much like Kazaa, those two are good but its really hard to find every episode of a series. So I hope seedler really comes back cuz i just started using it and haven’t gotten to get used to it and really enjoy the heck outta it!
Oh and one more thing CD’s are pretty expensive these days I worked at HMV and for a new CD it was like 20$ and thats expensive for something that you can get for free.
its not a case of noone asking about seedler as everyone i know is wondering if it has been shut down for good or not…it was my fav torrent site and i hope its up again soon as the last week has bn a nightmare without it
I have seen 30 + concerts in the last year because I support the bands we download. Music execs and corporate suits need to realize that we will pay for what we and the artists deserve, but the strangle hold on creativity is over. I and you will decide what we want to see and hear. Be fair and share!!! Fair prices and artist profit shares must be the rule. Emusic.com is a step in the right direction, but keep ur hands off the DL sites. I can’t begin to tell you how many bands I am one of the RABID fans of that the first listen was for free.
I’ve only just seen this site. Seedler is sorely missed. For my pick, Seedler was (is/will continue to be?) the best torrent site about.
Thanks for the info DonB, been trying to find out whats happening for ages
“if these people would lower the price on CD’s then maybe peer to peer sites would not exits”
Oh please. Would you really buy those cd’s/albums/whatever even for 2£, IF you can get them _totally free_ from p2p?
I just hope the site will be up again soon.
I’ve been trying to find my files @ other sites lately but it’s no use.
I can’t find the file’s I’m looking for or it’s crap with a capital C.
I have even considerd buying. but here (in The Netherlands) CD’s and DVD’s are so expensive I’d rather wait for seedler (or another great site).
- BTW, The Pirate Bay is mayor Crap!!!
VIVA LA SEEDLER
dont let some corp. retard screw all of us over seedler gives us what we can not afford. seedler is the big guy who helps out the little guy with nothing(like tiny tim) and some jurk off takes our last hope of have something we can not afford away
SEEDLER RULES
seedler is the greatest and i am lost with out it i feel like a junkie going cold turkey and it sucks bad im sick of all these rich bastards taking the little bit of what they dont get away from the rest of us. like they dont have enough already give it up some times it helps to help other people expecialy those whom cant afford it.
and now we r stuck using what little crap is left and it is almost like eating out of a garbage can.
we need seedler back and if we all pitch a little in we can get what we want by working together
SEEDLER IS GOD
i live here in the us and am still wondering what the hell gives the mpaa and the riaa bastards the right to go to another contry and tell them what to do. why shut down a business thats not in their own backyard. i dont here about anyone from another country coming here to shut down macy’s. i dont here the chinese telling us how to make chinese food. why should we tell others how to share music.
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