Torrent Sites Under Seige ?

[GhostShip]

The filesharing community took another hit this week with some pre-xmas shutdowns that are normal this time of year.

http://www.slyck.com/story1350.html

The Dutch organization BREIN took action this week, resulting in the dismantling of two BitTorrent sites.

The anti-piracy organization sent a cease and desist letter to the web host provider of Extremepowertorrents.nl. According to BREIN, there was no action on part of the web host or the torrent site owner on a prior demand for 6 weeks. On Monday, BREIN visited the hosting provider to repeat these demands. As a result, the hosting provider sent a cease and desist letter to the site operator, and the website was shut down.

While investigation may appear straight forward, BREIN ran into difficulties identifying the site owner as website's registration details is falsified. On further investigation, they discovered another website, Freakytorrents.org, had the same false registration details. It was alleged that the website hosted 650 torrent 'links' and had 11,000 registered users.

Nothing new then folks, it seems the take-downs are as a result of ignoring brein notices because of the fake info given, a tactic that is usually reserved for the lamest atacker.

[KM]

same method vladd used to try and get the winmx network shut down... you'd almost think they were working together, especially as vladd is now suddenly going to try and move over to bittorrent, and all of a sudden his methods start getting used against the torrent sites that will be his competition...