SuperFundo Torrent Site Shut Down By Government
Written by enigmax on April 26, 2009Earlier this week we reported that the LeechersLair tracker had been closed down by its host under orders from the Malaysian government. Now SuperFundo, another long standing torrent site, has been closed down too.
Back in 2008 the Malaysian government made a move against several torrent sites. Less than a year later and they’re having a second shot.
Earlier in the week we reported on the plight of LeechersLair. Launched in 2006, the BitTorrent tracker has around 20,000 members who enjoy all the usual content.
Not at the moment though since the Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) ordered Shinjiru, LeechersLair’s webhosting provider, to close down the site citing a breach of Section 41 of the Copyright Act 1987. Shinjiru complied immediately and took the site offline.
And now they’ve shut down SuperFundo too. As an open indexer, SuperFundo doesn’t have a tracker of its own, so perhaps this is a more unusual target for the anti-pirates. Nevertheless, the claims are that SuperFundo breaches the Copyright Act 1987. The site admins weren’t exactly given long to take action either;
You are required to resolve the illegal activities issues within 1 hour after this warning notification. TMNet has the right to block this IP if there is not any notification from your side within this one-hour timeframe.
Plenty of time to sort everything out, then. But never fear, admin at SuperFundo told TorrentFreak that the site will be back, asap. LeechersLair will be back too, as soon as they have secured another host in a different country.
In the meantime the message is pretty clear – Malaysia shouldn’t be on the top of anyone’s torrent hosting list.
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The Malaysian minister of commerce watched in horror as the amount of webhosting money flowing into his country began to slow down to a trickle, and eventually stop. “The fools”, he exclaimed “They’ve cut off our only source of income!”
“Not to worry”, his faithful assistant cried out, “We still have the child slave industry!”
“Yes, but for how long . . .” the minister mused.
This isnt looking good.
lmao @ goobs
nice 1 goobs
LeechersLair actually did not shut down permanently, bowing to Malaysian govt BS.
http://filenetworks.blogspot.com/2009/04/leecherslair-down-but-will-return-soon.html
Site is back online now at a new address which existing members should have received via email.
@LLnotdown
Yeah, and they also want to keep it on the low down. Well done
doesnt it seems a world wide campain 4r antipiracy.
a bit F to them all.
we hav 2 shift 2 a new solar system.
@JJ – That’s why we didn’t publish that information….too late now I guess.
@JJ and @ Enigmax,
Thats why i didnt post the new URL. It’s not even given in the link i quoted.
hey enigmax you should maybe censor comment #5 for time being
My Internet connection will close in 4 days. I am moving to a place where there is no landline. So for me the Internet is shutting down very soon already!
Not sure if living without the Internet is actually utopia, but for me it is time to take a breather. Might not be that bad an idea for many to sit on the sidelines for a while and see how things go.
Is it bad I lol’d at child slavery?
lmao goob
Love it. Decent humour is rare these days.
We need sealand!!! YArr!
that guy called Antz from the link needs banning
hmm, if an American organization offered a struggling country a huge amount of money, do you think they may be able to sway jurisdiction?
i say sweet , in the end when no more torreters exist are you or I going ot buy there crap, NOPE we shall swap locally and use local wireless to share, the cats totally out of thebag and it grew to become a tiger which dont fit in the milk bag no more. TRY as they might they cant take the eocnomic hit of losing 20 billion a year and it going to NOTHING …
world wide go camping and screw ISPS summer…. LOL
and with the USa bailing out more and more ya think there money be worth anything to some 3rd world country when they know the USD is worthless?
and so much for nightly back ups eh…..
I knew it!! Damn anyway.
Good. Every Government will bow down to American Corporation Power!
why people here are agreed with those who attack the torrent industrie??
Superfundo was a fake site anyway
pretty soon they’ll be hosting from the middle of the sea… After all, no country owns any sea beyond 7 miles offshore anyway… and that just seems fitting for us “pirates” anyway huh…
@24 I AGREE ARRR MATEY LETS GO A PLUNDERIN’
@ 17.
Well said!
@ #5,there’s always one who doesn’t pay attention. Time to ban.
Does anyone know what happened to ThePiratebay? at about 7PM EST tonight it disappeared no site and all the trackers are gone? any info at all
Very good news for bittorrent.
This zero-class site that did nothing but steal releases, should’ve been shut down a long time ago.
Their shitty admin was also behind the axxotorrents.com fake site, so good riddance to this pest in the torrenting community.
*claps #29*
Very very true. Well said.
damn, i was mod there! and i was thinking in returning this summer… this makes me sad…
you fucking idiots, axxotorrents has been gone forever, it was not the same staff at all… and anyway, did you read?? superfundo is not dead, its just moving servers……..
bunch o’ retards on this site.
I saw a blurp on another website that the PB’s ip addresses, were assigned (given)to the prosecuting attorneys. Looks like they’re sinking the ship. We need to throw those guys a life preserver or something to bail them out.
@1 goobs, you are so true. In such an economic state that this world is in today, they are totally screwing themselves over.
We are going to win this war of piracy one day. Sadly, we won’t be able to call it piracy when we win, since it will be legal. Lol, legal pirates.
THE BAY IS DOWN WTF!??!
MAY DAY MAY DAY MAY DAY
Anyone know anything??????
#29 for us who uses superfundo to search for movies instead of going thru one by one uploaders in the vast torrent sites,its hard now for us.who cares its fake they are just a site who index for us,so its cool!!
and guess what tmnet suck so much they would give anything to bring back those investments one way or the other.they’re are just doing this to put up a stunt,its just political not a business plot.not to meantion their speed suck, they sucked!
It’s FILE SHARING not Piracy
ForFSake
The industry likes calling it Piracy because it sounds worse than File Sharing.
But if thinking you’re a pirate makes you feel cool then go for it.
Piracy – the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.: The record industry is beset with piracy.
Whats it to Malaysia having to shut down torrent sites? WTF do they gain by being a worthless lapdog to western countries??
I think **AA should realise that it is only waste money to try to clean malaysia from pirate .
they been doing this few times before in the past , nothing change .
http://ks368582.kimsufi.com/phpbb2.php
Superfundo was a parasitic site leaching from the top releasers.
Do the filesharing world a favour and don’t come back.
#28 is right Superfundo used to be called axxotorrents making money from the name of aXXo, who called them “a bogus site and lamers”
No point hosting torrent sites in Malaysia either. For a month now, the ISP have major faults to international links and temporary closing down customer service to avoid that matter.
The ISP, TMNET still focusing on curbing torrent sites and blaming those for the rising piracy in Malaysia.
Overall its all pure crap, all the agencies in here, Malaysia is all government backed, same goes to the monopoly ISP, TMNET.
This is all true as i am from Malaysia.
#40
Link is well and truly dead
Boycott product’s that are produced and exported form country’s like Malaysia. And other that fighting with P2P. 25-50 million people will make the difference.
ahaha you dumbass haters, superfundo.org is already back!
http://superfundo.org/
go suck a torrent cock. you think mininova is any different? stop pretending to be hackers, torrents are as user-friendly as it gets you bloody tools.
God, you lot really ought to chill have a drink.
Anyway Superfundo is back………………
As #41 pointed out: they didn’t just steal from aXXo.
In collaboration with Demonoid Staff, we’ve caught several of their torrentstealing members over the years.
Knowing the background of their admin, and the fact that they had whole sections of unauthorized torrents on site, claiming to be the source for them, there’s little ‘torrentluv’ justified for that crap site.
anyone using a dumpsite wants their head examining anyhow, I never used superfundo and never will, too many people monitoring Ip’s on them
Why bother with comments like “this isn’t looking good”; “bad news=(” etc..?
Go wank your tiny pecker or do something productive instead. Or, post constructive posts;)
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@ “In collaboration with Demonoid Staff, we’ve caught several of their torrentstealing members over the years.”
hahaha you retard. that sentence doesn’t even make sense. and btw there are no “members” its a public site!!! lmao
@ “too many people monitoring Ip’s on them”
wtf? do you know anything about torrent technology? they all use the same damn trackers!!!
They’re back!!! Thanks a ton Fundo’s!!!
maybe some of the trackers could move to south africa, and give those 419 scammers some sort of legitimate job.
yahhhh sufu is back!!! best torrent site ever. =D
Is sufu a fake site or not i’m least bothered. But the torrents in it are very good and unlike other sites where fake axxo torrents appeared, i never got one here. May be because it was well moderated. And the torrents were also well organized making the user easy to search.
Leecherslair new site i lost addy pc crash and im a member anyone know where i can get new addy or get it sent to my reg addy with Leecherslair?
cant get superfundo again, whats going on?????????????
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Yea the site is definitely down, looks like a DNS error… or rather the DNS lookup no longer exists… which I knew the IP.
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