EliteTorrents goes down

[Amailer]

http://www.elitetorrents.org/
Check it out... the site that got me in touble is now dead!

I think torrentbytes will be shutdown soon

[Mazer]

How'd you get in trouble?

[Amailer]

Well the BSA somehow got all the torrent info from a torrent i dled from that site... they contacted Sympatico...and yup.

[Neo]

So what are they going to do? Throw you in jail?

[[Gandalf]]

Indeed...

They seem to close down BT sites in 'waves' every now and then they just hunt them down. Quite a few sites have been shut down recently.

[Hikaru79]

Perhaps some good trackers have been brought down, but today was Bram Cohen's release of the OFFICIAL Bittorrent search engine (written by the same guy who wrote the bittorrent protocol), and can be found at http://www.bittorrent.com/ . Let's see how long it is before he gets sued too ^_^;

[[Gandalf]]

There is a nice, long discussion about this down at slashdot.

Supposedly his site is vulnerable to mysql injection, and it "gives error messages instead" of cannot be displayed screens.

It's a battle between BT's legal capabilities and it's illegal uses. The thing is, they would have trouble taking it down since its like a whole new download system which many companies are using to lower bandwidth costs significantly.

[Amailer]

They cannot take down the whole BT system... just the trackers and etc.
This is like the 6th torrent site iv seen in this year that has been taken down :S

Neo wrote:

So what are they going to do? Throw you in jail?

No, i got a warning

[AsianSensation]

Hmm...I wonder with all the waves of torrent sites shutting down, why hasn't torrentspy shut down yet?

[Cervantes]

Amailer wrote:

Neo wrote:

So what are they going to do? Throw you in jail?

No, i got a warning

Heh, are you going to heed that warning? What happens if they catch you doing it again?

[MihaiG]

what the hell is that?? the site...waht was it?

[Neo]

ELCOMANDANTE wrote:

what the hell is that?? the site...waht was it?

It was a torrent site.

[Amailer]

Cervantes wrote:

Amailer wrote:

Neo wrote:

So what are they going to do? Throw you in jail?

No, i got a warning

Heh, are you going to heed that warning? What happens if they catch you doing it again?

Well, I can't get sued yet cus the ISP is doing all the work... and im not gonna be dling for a while now XD.

If I do get caught again I apprently either get suspended (internet) or they just kill my internet connection for ever and I switch to another ISP

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4587371.stm

anyone have any idea why it takes them so long to shutdown torrent sites? I mean come on... the proof is right there... they can search google them selfs and find torrent sites and then they can go and shut them down.

[Mazer]

Maybe some of the people try and fight back. Wasn't the guy running lokitorrents collecting money to defend the site in court? Or maybe it was another site.

Either way, there's an official BitTorrent search engine now (being run by the guy who actually made BT in the first place) so maybe we won't need those sites anymore?

[Hikaru79]

Coutsos wrote:

Maybe some of the people try and fight back. Wasn't the guy running lokitorrents collecting money to defend the site in court? Or maybe it was another site.

It turns out that the money he was collecting for his "legal battle" was a scam--he simply got the legal paper, posted it on his site, and asked for donations which all went straight to his pocket.
Really, I find it incredibly, incredibly ironic. A group of pirates get a taste of their own medicine and all of a sudden they feel very indignant about "stealing" and stuff. I mean, I download a fair bit of copyrighted material myself, but at least I don't go around crying bloody murder when something like that happens to me, like a few of the lokitorrent bunch seem to be doing.