Snarf-it Disappeared, Servers Seized?
Written by Ernesto on September 19, 2006The popular BitTorrent site Snarf-it.org is down at the moment. Apparently some incompetent people at the datacentre messed up the server.
At Snarf-it.org we read this funny coverstory:
Where is Snarf-It? Your guess is as good as ours, at some point last night our database servers disappeared, and we really mean disappeared. The data centre where they [...]
The popular BitTorrent site Snarf-it.org is down at the moment. Apparently some incompetent people at the datacentre messed up the server.
At Snarf-it.org we read this funny coverstory:
Where is Snarf-It? Your guess is as good as ours, at some point last night our database servers disappeared, and we really mean disappeared. The data centre where they are stored is not telling us anything and they are not replying to our calls or emails. We are at this point quite paranoid and thinking the worst (possibly that the servers have been siezed), we just don’t know. We are preparing to take flight to Havana where our new lives await us under Fidel’s regime (he want’s to open a Cuban torrent site to piss of the White House).
However, sources within the Snarf-it team confirmed to TorrentFreak that there is nothing to worry about. Snarf-it will be back as soon as possible, most likely this friday.
Update: The Snarf-it admins posted an update confirming our story
READ ALL ABOUT IT! Our downtime certainly has caused a few people to freak out, relax, take it easy. We haven’t been raided but we have lost our RAID so we are rebuilding some indexes and transferring them to the new server which has 6 x 36gb raptors in RAID 50, that should help us should this happen again. We plan to be back for the weekend, we can’t have you TorrentFreaks going cold turkey now can we!
Seriously though, thank you all for your concern and emails, when the shit hit the fan it was nice to have words of encouragement from our users, makes it all worthwhile :). Lastly we have decided that the Snarf does indeed have a place with Snarf-It still and as such we will install him back on the site as it’s mascot, see you soon!
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My guess is the White House, MPAA RIAA etc is behind this, and if that is true, they are in some deep shit. .torrent files only have information about the file, not the file itself. And there should be a law in the U.S. or wherever the servers were stored that the server maintenance crew/owner etc should be notified by the people seizing their property… SUE THE BASTARDS
Why would US torrent site owners want their servers in the US? Doesn’t this leave them open to being sued anyways for copyright infringement? Its pretty obvious the MPAA\RIAA ******** dont care what a .torrent file contains its sue ‘em all anyways..
MPAA are, to put it simple, idiots. There is nothing illegal about torrent files, and it should by all means be safe to host those files on a server regardless of country, unless that country has a law specifically adressing that .torrent files and bittirrent technology is a direct cause of copyright infrigment.
thats really gay
I love bittorrent tech, I say down with the mpaa/riaa. In my opinion this will one day level the field, actors and recording artits have been making unreal amounts of money for years, maybe soon they will start to make some realistic salaries
“READ ALL ABOUT IT! Our downtime certainly has caused a few people to freak out, relax, take it easy. We haven’t been raided but we have lost our RAID so we are rebuilding some indexes and transferring them to the new server which has 6 x 36gb raptors in RAID 50, that should help us should this happen again. We plan to be back for the weekend, we can’t have you torrentfreaks going cold turkey now can we!
Seriously though, thank you all for your concern and emails, when the shit hit the fan it was nice to have words of encouragement from our users, makes it all worthwhile :). Lastly we have decided that the Snarf does indeed have a place with Snarf-It still and as such we will install him back on the site as it’s mascot, see you soon!”
I’ve never been so happy to be wrong.
Damn, the update came right after i posted… :p
Seems well reported, Ernesto. It’s an interesting fact that until you were dissed at Slyck, I had never been to this site before and it’s cost them a regular reader.
As you say, and a lot more succinctly than that verbose oaf at Slyck, it seems merely a datacentre error. Nothing to worry about here, by the looks of things.
But it is telling that you have obviously taken the time and trouble to contact Snarf staff (sorry) before putting fingers to keys and knocking out 10 paragraphs of drivel to one of news. Well done and thanks
Thanks Salazar.
I don’t claim to be a journalist, but I like to check up on things..
call it curiosity ;)
btw, I don’t think the Slyck guys have bad intentions
What’s this dissing I’m hearing about?
I guess Salazar refers to this thread
http://www.slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26203
You’re welcome, Ernesto, but I feel you are being far too modest.
You took the initiative to check your facts before writing, which is the act of a truly professional journalist and places you head and shoulders above many others writing on the web. In professional terms, it is called “due diligence”.
Keep up the good work
And now they’re back, better than ever!
http://wiredfire.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=50908
thanks
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