TorrentScan.com Shut Down Due to DMCA Violation
Written by Ernesto on March 30, 2007The popular BitTorrent meta-search engine torrentscan.com was shutdown a few hours ago due to a DMCA violation. An absurd action because the site never linked to a single .torrent file, it just allowed you to search for torrent files on other BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay and Mininova. So how on earth can it cause a DMCA violation?
Mavol, the owner of Torrentscan.com was stunned by the action of his hosting company (softlayer), but up until now he didn’t receive any explanation for this bizarre action. To make things even sillier, his other sites like imgboot.com and showip.be which are hosted on the same server are also taken down, and those sites aren’t even remotely related to BitTorrent.
Mavol immediately decided to relocate the site to a new server. His friends at http://btjunkie.org/ were kind enough to help him out for now. It might take some time for the DNS to update, but in the meantime TorrentScan.com can be accessed here.
Mavol is not the most lucky guy when it comes down to finding a good webhost. Only a few month ago he got screwed over by his (former) webhost who hijacked his domain, and took off. Let’s hope he has more luck with his next webhost, so things can get back to normal soon.
Update: Mavol resolved the dispute with the hosting company, they took the site down for “investigation”, but it’s now back up.
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A big fuck you to softlayer, hope you go bankrupt! Good luck Mavol! :)
Everyone’s always so concerned about saving their own asses… it kills me.
What’s even funnier is that your can search for Torrent files using Google. “lord of the rings torrent”
They going to shut down Google? No.
MPAA: Make your member Newline Pay Peter Jackson what you owe him and you might have a bit more credibility. You’re the new mafia.
Big fuck you to torrentscan, they deserve to die since they promoted bitroll and tricked people into downloading the spyware client. Also a big fuck you to torrentfreak for giving these bastards publicity.
Thats abit unfair.
I think that with the case of those Bogus Torrent Clients, alot of sites advertised them without realising it contained Spyware,
Even some of the big sites.
It was all removed when people started becoming aware of it.
- And id hardly call it publicity;
Its News, Tommy.
Well then, shut down all search engines; or shut down the Internet…
stone age~ hahaha
What a shame,and i thought wr’e facing global warming not going back to stone age!!!!!!!!!And never come back :-()
I’m from Ro and i’m so sorry for that fuck with this…shut down all search engines,shut down all search engines,shut down all search engines…hack the earth.
Bloody Bastards !!!
ах вы пидарасы!
fukn tards go this mavo guy ive got heaps of shit to watch thanks to him …………….fuck the commercial industry and theyre over payed actors ………give them a salary like the rest of us i say
DMCA is such bullshit; large corporations use their wealth to leverage a hegemony because regular people can’t afford to take them on in court.
I remember a slew of suits pre-internet for everything from timed VCRs to Galoob’s Game Genie because every company back then wanted to claim copyright infringement. None of them ever stuck until the DMCA and noone seemed to give a shit when it was passed.
Fuck corporations and fuck pussy hosts for doing goofy shit like this.
If its not one thing it’s another.
I work two jobs and enjoy what i can on the net. Every week seems like some asshole whose parents gave him enough money to start an industry takes more from me.
Open Source it baby, I’m coming for you.
awwww fuck sake man where am a going to git my downloads from now thats pure shit man git it back up n running bastards !!!!
Come back Torrentscan we miss you.. Don’t let these arsehole close you down… :o)
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