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so what are the major bittorrent related incidents you have seen in the past ?
i am new here and to the BT private site world , so i have only seen the oink shutdown which was a big shock for me . i know we have more experienced BT users here who have seen other major shutdowns / arrests etc etc
so anybody want to share those stuffs with us noobs ? :unsure:
lol :D
"incidents"
i remember grand opening of tracker called scene something.... it was dead like week ago :D
don't remember the name, but the admin was named "scene" lol :D
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Originally Posted by Hrvoje
english isnt my first language :mellow:
never forget OiNK :(
OiNK and the controversies of Demonoid...
Supernova.
Elitetorrents
Oink
Demonoid
Also seen several
Sites just shutdown due to bad managing, staff not getting along and such.
never heard of those sites before . so they were like big private sites ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheffy
they were huge and public.
The year of the tragedies: the pig and the demon
you should probably skim the articles in fst's news section. There are a bunch of articles about lawsuits and new laws and musicians supporting us :)
it's going nowhere, though, if you ask me.
Demo
teh biggest ever was suprnova closing.
oink won't be missed.
The biggest disgrace was the shutdown of Scenenetwork with the publishing of the 'list' of ip's and email info of people the sysop didn't like, I still think Agent47 is a complete arse who shouldn't be allowed in the bit torrent community.
http://xs122.xs.to/xs122/07522/makey...ombstonwk0.jpg
OiNK. :(
UK-torrents was shut down 2-3 years ago by the MPAA.
Bithumen raided by Hungarian Police. Then it's back on track again.
Demonoid.
and when BITHD-TV was hacked, and some people loose their SCT or FTN accounts for use the same password.
supernova?
i remember that, the owner ran off with the donations the 1st month it was openQuote:
Originally Posted by Hrvoje
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Originally Posted by Cheffy
only suprnova was public outta those.Quote:
Originally Posted by Forged
suprnova was by far the biggest "incident"
it was the 1st real torrent tracker, there were a few small ones before it, but suprnova was the start of mainstream torrenting. it wasnt so much as closed down, but the owner was offered an amnesty if he shut the site down, he was promised he wouldnt be prosecuted. the site had attracted so much heat that he took the offer
i've seen people get raided by the fbi, but i guess that isn't bt related.
That was ScenePiracy, the other owner was named Piracy. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Hrvoje
The loki torrents debacle which was a site collecting money($30,000) supposedly to fight the MPAA because they had gotten a shutdown notice and then after collecting all the cash just shutting down without putting up any kind of fight but keeping the money.
http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=634
Sites like torrentfreaks and this site will give you all the incident reports you could fathom.
yea torrentfreak is the best source
ET, TIT, OINK and some small ones.
id say oink, scn, demonoid and suprnova
Yep, this was a really punch in the stomach for the bittorrent community... So many people donated money, hoping that a big trial will stop the MPAA and Webber (LokiTorrent.com onwer) just took of with the money... I think many people realized then, that donations do not always go where they are supposed to. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by DKre8ive1
Elitetorrents being shut down had the biggest impact on me (even more than demonoid, oink, suprnova).
Shutting down Demonoid was a bigger shocker for me. I still hope Deimos will put the site up again.
Oink and demonoid
runningthescene:)
And for the people who ended up in jail as well :ermm:Quote:
Originally Posted by eLucid
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-a...ent-to-prison/
http://torrentfreak.com/another-elit...prison-071117/
:angry:
suprnova going down, then lokitorrent and of course oink and demonoid. And all the jazz with TPB.