UK-T Shut Down For Good, Database Deleted

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November 1, 2009
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In 2005, the MPAA initiated a crackdown on BitTorrent sites linking to TV shows. Among those was UK-Torrents, a site that was later reborn as secretive private tracker UK-T. Four years later and UK-T is gone for good, but with no official announcements the exact circumstances are still unclear.

wheelmods After sharing using BitTorrent increased rapidly in popularity during 2004/2005, the MPAA could wait no longer and moved to pressure and shut down several sites.

Bragginrights, ShunTV, Btefnet, CDDVDHeaven, SciFi-Classics and Zonatracker served around 100,000 users between them, and were all targeted with lawsuits in May 2005. Earlier in the year moves were also made against LokiTorrent, s0nicfreak and TorrentStop.

While others faded away, users and admins of some of these sites regrouped to form new sites, and from the ashes of another targeted site, UK-Torrents, UK-T was born.

After the scares of 2005, becoming a large and open site became less attractive. With security in mind UK-T was an invite-only private tracker with an estimated membership of less than 5000. The site also had a fake frontend which gave birth to its codename: Wheel Mods

Some might wonder why the site is being referred to in the past tense after a healthy four years’ operation. The reason is that the site is no more.

In the absence of any official announcement either by the site’s staff or any anti-piracy outfit, details about the shutdown have been very difficult to obtain. After sitting on this story for quite a while, TorrentFreak managed to get a couple of individuals close to the site’s owners to part with a few pieces of information.

According to our sources a senior member of staff experienced legal issues following allegations of selling counterfeit DVDs which led to a search of his home address. Reports from a second source close to the situation claim that there have been further arrests of site staff, although we have been unable to confirm these reports at this point.

Some facts, however, seem fairly solid. Ex-site members are assured that they are safe, since staff quickly took the opportunity to securely delete the site and databases. However, the bad news is that the site will not be returning.

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Anonymous

Maybe they just went even more secret? ;)
qwizie

that sucks, it sounded like an interesting site
iPeter

Oh, no. Poor UK-T. At least collectors and invite traders don’t have to be begging for this site anymore… RIP UK-T.
http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

R.I.P UK-T.
4by

Dunno wat to believe these days
Rob

Can you get busted for ed2k links? I am a torrent man myself but having been busted twice in the same month for copyright infringement am a tad reluctant to use torrents again. Im talking about ShareVirus if anyone wants to try
quagmire

never heard of them, *too drunk to give S#!t*
Adrian

Goddammit, it was my main torrent site for about 3 years. This sucks hard. R.I.P UK-T.
Anonym

Better for the rest of the good once… FTN, FSC, SCT
Redeemer

R.I.P

@ Rob (6), yes. You better check newsgroups.
Jasper100

R.I.P
Anonymous

R.I.P. May your rims shine on forever. :(
Anonymous

A sad day indeed, there were some really top people on that site, i’ll miss the community more than anything
Need

Can I has invite pleasE?
brento

shame..
a/s/l

i’ll swap an OiNK invite for a UK-T one
Braindrill

there’s always more trackers. one get shut down another opens. kinda like cocaine use.
cpx

What more I can say? Super secret and 1337 site was run by an idiots. Selling DVD, hah! That’s probably the most stupid thing to do if you’re the owner of a torrent site…
James

He was staff not necessarily the owner, but yeah, selling counterfeit DVDs is incredibly stupid unless you’re in Asia or similar.
Jimmy

At least now I know where the name Wheelmods came from. ;) This place was hyped on the ‘net as a super secret super l33t highest level 10 tracker. Sad to see any tracker gone but if a staffer was using piracy for profit then that’s a quick way to end your tracker lol.
No-name

One gone, 100 more will come to replace it. They don’t get it, do they? Shutting one down is not a victory, it’s the opposite.
GrX

best news i have heard all day long if they really have been slammed and no longer what a great day.

i have nothing against trackers and i have nothing what so ever against communitys who all share the same interest

what i am against is all these invite only trackers they are useless and prove to attract more attention than normal open trackers

all private trackers that are invite only should be closed down they are serving no purpose only helping the mpaa/riaa and other anti-pirate company’s do their job for them, being private invite only keeps millions of people from enjoying the communitys which in turn helps the industry to squash us all

blogs, websites, forums, bbs, all have the right idea the majority of these communitys do it right and have no problems mainly.

but for some stupid reason soon as a tracker admin decided to setup a site the first thing he does is make the stupid thing invite only

it was the worst modification that ever happened to a torrent tracker source base, one of the reasons ipb, vbulletin and other forum software DO NOT come with invite only scripts built in the stock files and thank god they don’t other wise the entire internet would become “invite only” and where would everyone be then..

now the comedy value starts those who had accounts and looked down their noses at people asking or invites to their little community are now in the same situation they themselves will have to turn to begging for invites themselves lol

oh the sweet irony now the shoe is firmly on the other foot.
Mad Max

Yaarrrrrr

Another one down

Another gives lie to the sharing is not stealing lie?

Oh yeah
Sendaii

Selling knock-off DVDs? What a f**king idiot. I have no sympathy for him.
kaotik

damn, great site.
was fun while it lasted. the lone site i still had from years back (loki, then radi, now UK-t) :(
man that sucks, time to find a new home now :(
tor

The time to oppose has come. Lets unify.
DIDIDave aka CDDVDHeaven

Ummmm so long UK-T……
Seems another long running tracker has gone….

CDDVDHeaven.co.uk as we were called back then still going strong –LOL
No many of us carried on after the 2005 forced close down’s of TV trackers as it was hyped?
CDDVD never was a TV tracker as stated but a gen tracker as we still are.

If anything the close down and moving to Dididave.com was a great time for us …we have got larger and stronger …lol
Truth2Btold

@GrX
I bet you’re only saying that because you couldnt get in some places you wanted.
it’s actually not easy to survive in some trackers, you need to have a good bandwidth, to spend loads of time on them, maybe lots of money on seedboxes.but in return you do get some stuff you dont really get from public tracers and in some countries it’s very necessary to make sure you got fall for the honey traps some dodgy ppl set up for downloader.
if you dont like the sound of private tracker, why not go for something like usenet if you dont mind paying. if usenet sounds too complicated to you, use blogs like rlslog or scenereleases…you need find the way that suits you.
getting in a tracker is not that hard,if you cant you simply havent tried hard enough.personally I think elite trackers gives nothing more than security
comparing to what other trackers can offer.
George

Way to admit to destroying evidence.
Sounds pretty noobish.

@Grx: What private trackers attract more attention than public ones? Suprnova, LokiTorrent, Demonoid, and TPB got more attention than any private site I’ve heard of.
Widget

Am I the only person that thinks there’s a possibility that he wasn’t actually selling counterfeit DVDs? You people need to be more paranoid :p
Lothor The Evil

Slow news day?
Keep digging Torrent Freak. Maybe someday you’ll discover the answer.
Lothor The Evil

@30 Widget
Quote: “Am I the only person that thinks there’s a possibility that he wasn’t actually selling counterfeit DVDs? You people need to be more paranoid :p” End quote.

No. I too think that was just a lie told to Torrent Freak. There is something funny about all this. Not to mention the article states that information couldn’t be confirmed.

“…..although we have been unable to confirm these reports at this point.”

I suspect it’s just a rumor.
Afficianado

According to our sources a senior member of staff experienced legal issues following allegations of selling counterfeit DVDs which led to a search of his home address.

It says allegations. This is just one of the many ruses the corporations use to seize equipment and harass operators. Just because it’s alleged, it’s a long way from being fact.
steve

What has happened to torrentbytes??
TallJohn

It was easily one of the best sites out there..super (rediculous) fast speed, and very good admins & others putting up great info on a variety of topics. I will definately MISS UK-T.ORG — if only they could put some t-shirts online for their followers/users to buy to say “Thanks for the memories!” The last thing I remember reading as I logged off it was ::down for a couple of days as we change servers:: I think the story that torrentfreak put up is just bogus – counterfeiting dvd’s..yeah, right!
Reventon

@32 I’ve heard the same DVD claim and it came from a close relative of the accused

@DDT didi/dave

Keep your eyes in the back of your head mate. The rules have changed since 2005. The MPAA had no way of getting your ID back then but FACT can, trust me on this, they’re basically the police these days
Tidder

http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/oct/31/sign-petition-and-talk-talk-pirate/
GrX

hiya,

used to be on many private trackers from torrentleech, feedthenet, scenetorrents, revtt, oink, pisexy and about another 20 or so.

i do use usenet i do use filehosting and forums this wasn’t my arguement my argument is that invite only crap is only restricting millions on millions of people for no reason at all, its stopping millions more doing what YOUR doing just because some idiot tracker admin decides ooh i know lets increase the false exclusivity by making it invite only and then when people ask for invites or try to get invited these people are scorned just because they didn’t have a friend on the inside lets see 8 million people, a tracker on adverage with 5k slot what is the chances of someone on the inside being a friend.. you’ve got a better chance at winning the lotto than having someone inside with an invite.

again this is going off topic so back on topic i’m not against torrents not against filesharing at all just sick of everything being “invite only” its getting stupid and out of control

think of millions of ants the more you stamp the more come out the harder again you stamp more come out you can’t kill em, now same goes for the mpaa/riaaa only with restricting millions on millions of users from being in communitys all over the net you’re making their job of stamping out people really easy, the more trackers, more piracy, more users, more open sites, which ANYONE can use it would be a million times harder for the anti people to get shut of us all, while everyone can enjoy the same interests together without this “you cannot become a part of our community” because you dont have a friend already inside our community .. complete and utter mess that system has turned into.

all its doing is making people beg for invites all over the place, then people making money selling invites, which then get a case against the tracker owners from anti-piracy, its just a complete mess then on top of this the wrong person gets invited which that 1 person screws it up for the rest which means once 1 wrong person is inside the community due to buying invite or begging for one and getting one theres no reason what so ever to keep this invite only crap up.

forums dont do it, websites/blogs dont do it so why in hell does trackers i mean what is it too the tracker owner or admin? its not their contents in the first place why are they the ones who says its fine to restrict others from enjoying this content since its not their personal content and i dont see what difference it makes who uses their tracker be it a user or a user who’s begged for invites or paid for invites.

just my view is if more of this invite bullcrap continues like it is doing the whole internet will be invite only soon, this stupid trend of restricting every man and his dog for no reason what so ever has to end before it gets to late.
anyone

selling it..? he deserved it
bob

Anyone know what’s going on with TorrentBytes??
Me.

ha! Another rumor. Keep them coming, seriously… keep them coming. Believe me, we have heard them all.
Darkstar

Dam will miss this site one of the best by a long shot no more free leech for me now
Anonymous

RIP UK-T it was such a fantastic site
ex staffer

I was staff on WheelMods – and got demoted for warning someone for swearing in a forum title (against the site-owners rules).

Some jumped up bell end called Catalystic promptly demoted me to VIP because I issued the warning, (even though I was SUPPOSED to warn, according to the site-owners rules).

Good riddance, – the ‘elite’ top level staff were nothing but a bunch of power hungry butt munchers if you ask me.

I’m not too surprised they’ve gone bang, as the first thing I did once I got demoted was trade my login details & several of my several invite codes for immunity over at http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/

Ahhhh! good times.
Anonymous

@GrX
you stupid faggot
Anonymous

@43:
“I felt the staff on the tracker made a poor decision in demoting me. Therefore, I decided to fuck over all the other users on the site for my own personal benefit.”

Real class act, there. I can see why they made a responsible, mature individual such as yourself staff to begin with.
Anonymous

@43 If thats true, then you’re the scum of the internet. The lowest of the lowest.
It’s sad to see yet another of the old private tracker keystones go, but nothing lasts forever.
moo

Jeez has it only been four years??

Best four years of my life!

I met my girlfriend (and soon to be mother of my child) on uk-t.
I also spent a good 3 years of my life getting drunk and helping look after the site and users.
Most of the current staff and previous staff I class as very close friends.
Its such a massive shame to see it go,, but perhaps its a blessing in disguise to see it go now.

BTW no staff member was selling anything, that’s a 100% guarantee.

Anyone who was a member, please try and keep in touch with other users that you know. Slowly we are getting in touch with people.
The site may be gone but we all hate the idea of loosing touch with people we class as mates.
TallJohn

moooooooooooooooooooooo

good to see ya!
h33t

thanks dude i have just signed the petition
DT

RIP UK-T, amazing tracker, my primary for years.. very sad day. As previously said however, others will replace it.
Jeff

If those allegations that they sold counterfeir DVDs was true, then that is likely what brought down UK-T.

Plus, their elitist attitude didn’t do much to help in their situation.
Anonymous

Sadly, I don’t really care, as long as torrentleech.org is still up, I’m happy. :D
SteveO

anyone near their TV in the usa CBS is going to talk about pirating on 60 minutes. Time currently 6:33 pm est.
alpha1172

now im sad and homeless. where to find a place to fill what uk-t.org has left?
newman

I notice that no one is actually mentioning what UK-T carried on their tracker and what made it such a great place to be. If it was just scene releases then get over it, plenty of those kinds of sites around. If however it had exclusive content in the form of tv caps and early releases then it is a place worth “mourning”.
Anonymous.

The stories are untrue, trust me ;) the real reason will be announced. just not yet.

Yes UK-T is gone for the foreseeable future… but who knows what will happen.

Dont speculate or listen to bullshit til people have made an announcement.

Regards.

A Real Placed user.
xan

GrX said
“now the comedy value starts those who had accounts and looked down their noses at people asking or invites to their little community are now in the same situation they themselves will have to turn to begging for invites themselves lol”

I very much doubt it m8! you see while uk-t was active most of the members had access to many other private sites and were swapping invites with each other all the time! this is how people built up their ratio’s by downloading from uk-t and upping elswhere.

so we’re all sorted bud!

oh and if you want any invites… tuff shit!! ;)
Anonymous

Oh noooo! This was my only remaining
private tracker. I am still hoping this isn’t true and theyll resurface. Maybe the reason they went down is they recently unfroze their invites and handed a bunch out. They just gave me 3 invites too :-(

Any ex uk-t members know of another good tracker for me?
bob

who the fuck cares really? people go around scavenging for an invite t this place as though they think when they find one what awaits them at the end of the rainbow is all life’s questions answered.

they had nothing you can’t find anywhere else.

great that they were a close knit community. but so what? if the people who crave invites to these places would only put half as much effort into actually contributing on the sites they are already members of.
bob

who the F&*k cares really? people go around scavenging for an invite t this place as though they think when they find one what awaits them at the end of the rainbow is all life’s questions answered.

they had nothing you can’t find anywhere else.

great that they were a close knit community. but so what? if the people who crave invites to these places would only put half as much effort into actually contributing on the sites they are already members of.
Uk-T Canadian

Uk-T was a totally wicked site…was a member for years then “poof’ it was gone..
i’m desperate to get into another site of that quality..it was a great site and I hope to become a member of another one like that
Lev

RIP uk-t.org….you will be missed…. you were my one and only private tracker!
MD3

Rest of the crew will start “Bolt Mods”! :D
Anonymous

Does anyone know the uk-t irc channel and if its still up?
fry

GRX u fuckin crap noob.

U’re a looser. u leecher faggot.

No one need u or milion nb users.

If i found u in any of my top trackers, i’ll hunt u of..

trash
Anonymous

It is true, UK-T Was a great site. And NO tracker have i seen it be freeleach for over 1 year before.

Greets go out to moo, You are a true legend. To the others who have now lost a home. Do not fear. For maybe one day we shall meet again in a site as great if not better than UK-T

To those disrespecting the staff. Its not easy to run a tracker. While i did not know the staffing rules as such i knew we were always taken care of.

UK-T RIP you served as my home for the past 4 years
TheBob

“I notice that no one is actually mentioning what UK-T carried on their tracker and what made it such a great place to be. If it was just scene releases then get over it, plenty of those kinds of sites around. If however it had exclusive content in the form of tv caps and early releases then it is a place worth “mourning”.”

They were a general site.. however, their pretimes weren’t the greatest anyone who bothered downloading the content from UKT wasn’t all that concerned with pretimes imho. Most of the time the uploaders got their content from sites like TL and SCT just to give you a better idea.
Approx 75% of their userbase only used the site for trading reps or didn’t use the site at all. The other %25 only used the site for day to day interactions in the forums etc.. not for the content itself. They had about 2,500 users last time I checked.. (I was a member but never used the site cause content wise it wasn’t all that great.) but I would say if 100 users of that amount used the site for downloading value I would be rather shocked.

“I very much doubt it m8! you see while uk-t was active most of the members had access to many other private sites and were swapping invites with each other all the time! this is how people built up their ratio’s by downloading from uk-t and upping elswhere.”

How in the heck could you download from UKT and seed a file on another site thereafter? TPB even had the files before UKT so I don’t find your information as feasible.

In regards to the story mentioned here… According to their own irc channel the day the site went down… this story is not just a rumor. One of the staff updated the irc topic to a similiar topic as to what this story mentions…. If the rumor isn’t true then its odd since one of the sites staff is the one who started the rumor @Ein2015.

Either case whatever the reason for the site being down.. its still a shame seeing a site go down.
plow

Timing sucks just after I invited three close mates…I was on since October 05 and what a great site, great speeds, and the request system always worked for me.

Thanks to the staff if anyone is reading :)

p1ow
eagen

TheBob you are so full of shit its nothing short of superb!! dream on sucker!
Paccy

Aww… to bad, im gonna mitt my home now :’(

! ! ! ! –>> R.I.P <<– ! ! ! !
mlp

Thought this was all flannel until I saw Moo posting up there…

It wasn’t about pretimes or crud like that – it was a small community of people, speeds were stupidly quick, and if you wanted something you just asked.

I upped 4TB in my time there…

I’ll miss it. :-(
Agent47 AKA SPX21

@eagen
What exactly from #65′s post was full of shit? I see no bull in what he said it seemed to be the honest truth.
Maybe you can point out the bullshit comment in what he said…

Also those commenting about Moo’s alleged post. Who’s to say that was even Moo who posted that? You can make your name anything you want on here.
mlp

Following on from my post, I’ve heard about a raid nr D******** from a friend of a friend – the server was wiped thanks to a quick phone call.

This coincides with the day the site dropped off the net (it’s still there, just not doing anything). Several arrests were made.

I know more (like names and stuff), but most of the stuff written in the article is basically true…
ginko

I have been so worried since I first clicked the link and the site was gone. Now my greatest fears have been confirmed.

It was the people who made the site what it was.

Respect and thanks to Moo. You are a god among men!
PappaLazarou

Quote:
“Ex-site members are assured that they
are safe, since staff quickly took the opportunity to securely delete the site
and databases.”

(LOL, tsk-tsk-tsk, want a copy?)
Anonymous

hahahahahahahahahahahaha
polish

http://www.heaventracker.org/browse.php
http://polishtracker.org:81/browse.php
roberto1972

LuFFy nuerher x5
kyrcer
arkady2 BabyLove jataman
mimoza
hahahaahhahah
https://www.heaventracker.org/staff.php

http://polishtracker.org:81/browse.php
anonymouse

Respect and thanks to Moo. You are a god among men! <— i second that!
nod

I am gutted. After 4 years of being my primary source, I am not back to the nightmare that is public torrenting. A world of hit and runners, and download speeds unheard of since 56k modems were at the forefront of technology.

Whilst i didn’t get as involved as i should have, the community seemed so close, download speeds were unreal, and requests were filled quickly.

People may sit and point the finger and say that people on UK-T were there for a status/elitism thing. I think it’s more of a pride thing. The members were proud to be a part of something that worked, and worked because everyone understood that you seed to at least 100%, and people are proud to have a good upload ratio.

RIP UK-T. I don’t know what to do now. And Moo, we never spoke, but i saw you everywhere on that site. All the best.
disk0rdian

I’ll miss it best tracker out there :(

Sad sad day indeed

Just to add Rip Uk-t
AnotherUser

I’m very sad to see this site gone. I was a member for several years now, and really appreciated the permanent FreeLeech situation.

Well, time to move on :) Where are private site invites shared nowadays? I recall trading invites several years ago on the UK-T Forums, but its been a while since I traded!
Yep

It was combination of things. Admins were awsome, but in the end i think real life got more and more in the way.

Law enforcement wasn’t anywhere near it.

RIP UK-T
guy with the oink hoodie

moo!!! remember me??

Please get in touch… was really looking fwd to another meet up hope it can still happen.

I use the same screen name for all other sites so it shouldn’t be hard for you to find me. I just hope you remember it!
hidden

We shall rise again out of the ashes..

this is the message from the new link so chill out guys, patience ;)
hidden

We shall rise again out of the ashes..

this is the message from the new link so chill out guys, patienceis a virtue ;)
anonymous

#84

G we remember you :) one day we’ll meet again :)
polahpyyyyro

Damn it brings a tear to my eye seeing fellow members on here posting that it’s all true. Daaammmnnn. Right after the invites
opened up for some of the elder members too. I’ll always remember uk-t as my home after what happened to elitetorrents. I’ll miss you guys and I can only hope we will one day rise again
PI

Glad to see Moo on here!

It’s so funny to see, 99% of the people bagging UK-T weren’t members.
UK-T was a great site, good content, members, staff, forums, requests, free leech, competitions!

It was f***ing great while it lasted!

Well done to the staff for wipeing everything. Now I must find a new home….

PI
Me.

Regardless of pretimes and other peoples perception of what kind of place UK-t was, end of the way, I couldnt care if it had worse pretimes than TPB, it was a community mate. TheBob, that is something that obviously you arent familiar with, and were just there for the value of being on a tracker that is hard to get on. And with people like you on there, I dont blame them for shutting down.

UK-t was a family. I mean… so what about content, pretimes, we had some fun there, and it was awesome while it lasted. I know 100% what happened over there, and the fact that there are so many people on here making up stuff, saying ‘I know what happened, and that aint it’, youre way off. I kid you not. And the reason that the story aint coming out? Take a look at yourselves and wonder why.

RIP UK-t.
Hope those who copped the arse during this screwed up time pull up alright. :)
Jeems

Ahhhh I’m so sad! I was a member of UK-T for close to 5 years and now I’m lost! The community was great and I’m so out of touch with other trackers, I have no idea where to go now :( WHERE DO I GO FOR MY TV EPS NOW? :(((

Good to see other ex UK-Ter’s on here, I have been googling info but found nothing! Hope it will be back up one day, I loved reading the forums, had some good stuff on there

Haters should be quiet, UK-T had great content and great speeds. No idiots, leechers, flamers etc either.

RIP UK-T and please keep in touch everyone!
Anonymous

I was a member for almost five years, +4.0 ratio with over 6TB uploaded. I really hate to see it go. It had very solid members, friendly and mature for the most part. Download speeds were as good as you can get. I am sad because if they ever get another site up and running I have to way of contacting them. :(
dude

Was a member for 4 years. I’m devastated about this news. Don’t want to use public sites and there was nothing like UK-T.
Anonymous

I too was an ex member of elitetorrents that moved on to uk-t when they shut it down. Now I’m lost again and dont’t know where to turn (the idea of public tracker sickens me). I wish they could have kept the IRC channel up at least so we can regroup and all join a new tracker…
claire

i was a memeber for over 4 years, and its very sad it gone, but great things must come to an end, i have to admit i miss all the people, such a great comunity made alot of freinds.
as for rising outa the ashes lol nope dnt think so, not just yet atleast lol that would be stupid!!!
Moo thanks for lettin epople know the score, well at least a lil, everyone is still pretty clueless.
anyway love and peace guys.
R.I.P uk-t
Givin Up

Such a sad, sad day :(. I was a member on the previous site and also a member since the first day that UK-T went up. I do dread going back onto public sites since I have no friggin clue where to go and hated the slow dl times. I only used ukt and now im homeless along with a bunch of other great people. RIP UK-T will miss you and the great community we had.
sledge

I still never got over the original shutdown of UK-Torrents. I was a Moderator ‘back in the day’ and was one of the original members.

After the rebirth, it was great to see the community regroup and restart again. I loved the forums and had a great time with my extended “family”.

You will be missed UK-T!
Siftah

To echo others sentiments – UK-T wasn’t about having the latest releases or any of the other noobish bragging rights.

It was a great community of users who could be relied upon to maintain great ratios (awesome speeds) and maintain quality torrents.

You never had to virus check a download or worry that the release would be corrupt in some way – the users weren’t dickheads and felt a social responsibility to other UK-T’ers.

Quality site, will be greatly missed.
Hashcake

I totally agree with Siftah.
The best private torrent site has gone and will be greatly missed.
My hat is off to the guys who were behind this site, much respect to you.
g-spot

too many invites lately…
open v2 but only with the members before the wave of invites
Hightowerz

Hats off to UK-T, you were my first private tracker and home for 4 years, fastest speeds I have ever seen, now I have no idea where to go and public trackers cannot compare

RIP UK-T
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herbazrael

I was a wheeler and can honestly say it was the most friendly (if somewhat guarded for obvious reasons) community I have found in a long time. I hope everyone comes out of this thing fine.

All the best to all the Wheelies out there!
herbazrael

Oh and in answer to the critics of “the elitist attitude” I had a friend inside he invited me. I invited 2 friends and received 3 more invites recently.

Those invites went to people I know and trust, not some jumped up kid who wants everything yesterday. The people I invited were community members.

Invites to UK-T were being sold for £100+ but thats simply because nobody would sell them, you earned them and they went to community users, friends, family, people you knew werent going to hit and run.

For those of you who arent 12, remember OinK? Remember that was invite only? remember it expanded far too fast? remember it closed down shortly after?

I would rather have a group of friends helping each other than 2million people out for themselves.

Fish, Bones, Moo (and all the other forum trolls), I salute you.
v8maro

I was a member of elitetorrents as well, when that site died, I immediately joined uk-t. I was one of the ‘elders’ and LOVED that site, it was my primary, now I’m stuck back in the rat race with the scrum, aka, public trackers.

Please bring uk-t back in a new form, the only problem is, without the database, there’s no way to contact the great members we had.

uk-t was awesome for good releases (nothing special) but also the GREAT speed. I am from the US and a lot of the times I would have 2mbps downloads (2000k/s) without issue. Everyone seeded like crazy, and there were hardly any hit n’ runs. I used to seed some torrents for like 6 months.

RIP UK-T, you WILL be missed.
v8maro

also, i’d like to add that we shouldn’t have opened the invites, should have had a poll and only let elders get them. I gave my 3 invites to VERY trusted people, not some MPAA/RIAA scrum douche bags.
El

I miss UK-T :(
disk0rdian

I’m with you on that v8maro first invites in years, gave one to a mate i trusted and sat on the others. I also was on elite and joined early days.

Really hoping something will rise from the ashes
carpboy

I was a member from day one,loved the site,i thought it was a prob and someone invited a bad user in,cos it wasnt long after some of us got invites that it went down,nice to c u on here moo.

R.I.P UK-T

Respect
widdler

I’m deeply saddened by this news :(

I have stuck with uk-t for many years and can’t find anywhere that has such reliable content and solid fast download speeds.

I do hope that I may somehow come accross this group one day again as I am finding all open sites totally unreliable and slow.

RIP UK-T
Froodles

UK-T was the best torrent site it has ever been my plesure to use :) RIP my friend, you served me well
neon40

Also uk-t member here. Very sad to see it go. The community was great and i’m going to miss alot of people. Many thanks for the post moo!! It’s been too long.

If your talking to Catalystic, DV8 or Squizzle etc give them my best. Have no way of contacting them unfortunatly :(

I’ll be keeping my eyes open for any kind of emergence where we can all talk again!!

All the best

Neon
bummed uk-t user

Well I’ve been trying to get in everyday for a week and finally found this post. I’m saddened by the closing of the site and even sadder that I didn’t get anyone’s email to keep in touch. RIP UK-T
YESITSMEFAGGOT

@93: you probably never heared of SCC or THS, huh? there are NOT plenty of sites out there (with the same size!), which are better than UK-T, but there are some sites, which are almost the same. small sites with absolutely great pre-times, much better than UK-T’s (because UK-T only stole Torrents from TL, SCT & so on), and you’d love them too for sure!

now go and beg for invites. lol.
TopHouse

Totally gutted it’s gone, was in there from the beginning, had a nice ratio and it was by far the best torrent site on the net.
hidden

@113
you are an idiot: uk-t had scene axx
they don’t steal torrents from TL or ScT
as i sad before: patience “We shall rise again out of the ashes..”
moum

Been there since the beginning and it was the best, shame it’s been shut down.
the community there was a special one
R.I.P UK-t, to all the staffs there, THANK YOU guys, you are the best, hope to see you all again!!!
moumou
evs

same hear a was on there from day one invited from old site after that went down. just had 2 invites given to me as elder member. read a whole load of crap everywhere but let me say a staffer sellin dvds lol NO WAY just wouldnt happen. gone for good though this time a feel not sure why but sure that it was for our saftey

rip:(
eek

RIP UK-T. Was a long time member and am very sad to it go. I had no need for any other tracker, these “public” speeds really make you think of how great it was. Thanks for everything to all the members and staff!
Freebyrd

Man where did everyone go? Any forum or irc channel?
uk-t user

am gutted also.. was my primary for years… bit odd how it went down just a few weeks after invites were opened again :S
exTBer

Damn how it sucks not having uk-t around. Got a personal invite just after torrentbytes went down. Waiting for the day I receive an invite for a new UK-T!

For staff and members f#ck the haters and their Bullsh#t

Dimitri
anonymous

looks like the page has changed???
exTBer

Site has changed. Don’t expect it to come back as it used to be. Last thing I’ll ever do is click on one of their links :p
Hashcake

This page provided to the domain owner free by Sedo’s Domain Parking

So they have kept the domain then.
There wouldn’t be any point in keeping it if there is no plan to use it..
anonymous

Was a member for 4 years with a ratio of 4+ and TB’s of upload. The site will be sadly missed :-(

Greets to moo and the rest of the staff.
Anonymous

where will we go now, it was the best,
wondering

didn’t you guys get a free pass to FSC?
Anonymous

nope fsc?????
Fao Oink Hoodie

Hi i bought you a cocktail whilst bowling,,, i cant find you on the few places i am still a member on.
Please keep trying to track someone down :o)

(it was me up above btw)
Anonymous

Uk-t was the best. Another elder member here in mourning. And I just got my 2 invites too. I feel sad, but I hope it will come back one day. Big thanks to the admins/mods of UK-t you did a great job.
Oras

RIP uk-t love you
132

Rip UK-T … best site ever ..

Zepp
simmo

RIP uk-t, was there since the start, when the uk-t gave the invites out i was slighty worried there was nothing wrong with the community as it was, it is a damn shame as i will never have speeds to match it. to you ppl that said it wasnt sh!t i was able to download a &50mb file in 8 minutes on average, Yes thats average my record was 3 minutes and 21 seconds.

Thanks to all the staff that made UK-T the community it was i will miss it
Anonymous

RIP uk-t, was very worried when the invites came out nothing wrong with the community that was there, it is a damn shame as i will never have speeds to match it.

To you ppl that said it wasnt sh!t i was able to download a 750mb file in 8 minutes on average, Yes thats average my record was 3 minutes and 21 seconds.

Thanks to all the staff that made UK-T the community it was i will missed. R.I.P

Thanks moo and the rest of the Uk-T Community
hector2800

UK-T was my favourite site I shall miss it. I wasn’t an active forum member but I liked its reliability and community spirit. Best wishes to all the admins, uploaders downloaders, elders whatever you WILL be missed.
guy with the oink hoodie

if you’re in touch with the bloke with the fit display picture “ily” tell him I tried “The Devil and God” and it was a waste of ratio.

my screen name is sometimes spelt with 3′s instead of “e”s
diaric

saddened by the loss of the best site there was. there from the beginning. nothing but quality
lonewolf

gone but not forgotten
R.I.P UK-T
jagsybackup

im lost….no home…
enjoyed entering uk-t`s competitions to… it wasnt just for downloading it was a real community ,friendly and u felt safe downloading and sharing
gonna miss it
thekid5000

site was shit anyway
hidden

@ #140: i bet that you never were a ukt member.
gorrs

wtf,just back from hols,just found out. Its like losing a family member. RIP. Damn idiot selling fake dvds. Does the law now hold all members details now? Anyone know?
No one

No man if you read the article it says the entire database was wiped. Heck it’s even in the flippin’ title
Adrian

Looks like the domain is up for sale. Too bad :( You will be missed. To all the members out there for whom UK-T was also their only private tracker, I am in the same boat. I’m quite upset I didn’t get anyones email :( All the best guys, it was fun.
buda

just read 12days of rants and a few with information.. thanks
Sorry to hear the site is down!

Anybody out there still reading this?

Looking to connect with reliable source..
please advise
(:)
Blacklocus 85

Also a member from the start.

UK-T was awesome, the community was great.

So gutted it has gone.

Will miss you all and please do stay in touch.
Adrian

@145

Yeah, we’re still reading.

Well I am at least. I am eager to hear some info.
BoOdOg

yup another member from near the start was the only site I used and it was great. I think were all still reading in hopes of good news
W

UK-T The best R.I.P
Gadget

UK-T rocked! Fast & trustworthy, will be truely missed. RIP
TopHouse

BoOdOg you’re exactly right, that’s why ‘I’ keep checking back here. UK T was my only torrent home, having to use a public site now and the eye patch and peg leg just don’t suit me!
Xaw3doC

R.i.P UK-T

NEXT!!!
kylemacs

i was a VIP member of UK-T for 4 years. it was a great site! for all of the people bashing it, you guys are ducking morons! sorry you could not get an invite. I am glad that they did not give out invites all the time. it kept away dumb asses like yourselves. RIP UK-T.org

KyleMacs
guy with the oink hoodie

ok I give up.

email me at oinkhoodie@googlemail.com and tell me the colour of my hoodie or what I was wearing on Friday or the name of the pub or where you had lunch on Saturday and I’ll tell you who scored the most points during bowling and who bought (not *brought*) the oddly named beverages.

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