Torrentfreak taken down by FBI & ICE

[jazzyjazzy]

Just opened it and got the message.

[heis]

yup, but this is old news m8

[BLaZiN]

message just changed to another message, hmmm, some kind of sick joke??

WTF did torrentfreak ever do that was illegal

[jazzyjazzy]

sorry if its a old msg, just wanted to share as i was able to access its pages earlier today which i found through google and now its down.

I also dont think that it was illegal, it was just for information

[1000possibleclaws]

yeah, this is new to me, although i rarely visited torrent freak to begin with..

[LoOpiNg]

i doubt it's some mpaa or fbi or whatever. The site just got hacked, probably by some anti-torrent-pro-copyright people and they put that message up.

When you go to the main site and click on the picture and then one of the links, it says "we killed torrentfreak".

[Dark Archon]

site is working? so misleading this thread...

[FatBob]

No MPAA or RIAA
No DDOS
Hardware troubles caused the downtime, normally not that big of a problem if the people at Softlayer weren’t that incompetent. It took them 12 hours to find out that the motherboard died, and another 12 to reinstall the OS. At the time of writing we still don’t have our data back. So, we took our backups and moved out of there, let’s hope everything holds up.
Forums are down for now, will be fixed within 24 hours
We will move to a better and more stable server in a few hours, without any significant downtime hopefully

[grimms]

I guess that solves that. I didn't even know they were down.

[dunson]

http://torrentfreak.com/back-080218/