This is my first post here and I signed up explicitly to post in this thread. I'll ask ilias to post here as well, when he's online again. If there's some way for staff here to verify who I am claiming to be - mephistopheles at TehConnection, SysAdmin and coder - please feel free to contact me.
We had a massive influx of new users who were sitting on accounts, due to the extended period of open signups, after we switched to gazelle. To compensate for this (account sitting), we started disabling old accounts that had 0 activity, nothing snatched or leeched or uploaded.
PassThePopcorn's owner qualified for our rules and was disabled, completely automatically. We've no issues with PtP staff and have even given our VIP-like "community staff" class to the one PtP staff member that has asked for it. Upon talking to the owner, ilias re-enabled him and gave him that same class, to prevent the same thing from happening again; he was answered with a g:line.
We've taken no ridiculously immature measures against PtP and have sought no retribution of any sort, but this is the story as best I know it. Regarding the "leaking" of content, we've established in our rules (and we do enforce this) that exclusive content is not to be uploaded without proper consent from the original releaser(s); we've worked out agreements with a few p2p groups to allow their exclusive content at TehConnection and have silently obliged when asked to follow restrictions or blacklists. We've been very public with this stance and were the PtP staff worried about such a thing, they could easily contact us with their worries and we'd address their issues; however, like other issues, their staff has not approached us at all.
And one final point, no one on my staff is a staff member at ScT. What people have done in their past is in their past and while we maintain friendly relations with ScT, as we try to do with all other trackers, I assure you we are not affiliated with them.
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