bittorrent tracker

RUTracker, Russia’s largest BitTorrent tracker, has been dealing with the effects of a DDoS attack over the past 48 hours.

As a bunch of you have been submitting, TorrentFreak recently had the bizarre story of a Danish law school student and legal blogger who had been writing a lot about file sharing... and then was raided by police who were told he ran a private BitTorrent tracker by the local anti-piracy organization, RettighedsAlliancen.

With a claimed 400,000 registered users, MovieX.info was one of the largest semi-private BitTorrent trackers on the Internet in 2008.

The U.S.

Government is determined to do all it can to reduce online piracy, and a cable written by U.S. Ambassador William Taylor from Ukraine shows that this effort is not limited to the homeland.

The cable, dated 17 December 2008, was published by Wikileaks this week and reveals details on a piracy workshop the U.S.

Government organized in the country.

In 2009, following the raids against the OiNK BitTorrent tracker two years earlier, four uploaders to the site were sentenced to community service and up to £500 in fines.

Their crimes – sharing an album with others before it was released in the shops.

Following the example of OpenBitTorrent, another major BitTorrent tracker has now abandoned the resource-intensive TCP protocol. 1337x switched to a UDP-only tracker a few days ago after several hosting providers kicked the tracker out for the “broadcast storm” that resulted from the millions of connections BitTorrent users were making.

The administrator of a growing private BitTorrent tracker is reporting that he has been raided by the authorities.

The admin of XtremeSpeeds says that he was questioned on suspicion of being involved with leading P2P release group IMAGiNE.

While the investigation is underway, XtremeSpeeds will remain offline.

XtremeSpeeds is a multi-focus private BitTorrent tracker now well into its third year of operation.

According to information from its administrator, it may never see its fourth.

Last month the private BitTorrent tracker XNT.nu was raided, a site which had risen from the ashes of other sites shut down by the authorities in 2009.

The raid and arrests in this new case have now claimed another casualty in the form of Piratetorrents.nu.

A new dimension was just added to the ongoing stream of BitTorrent lawsuits in the U.S. A Canadian BitTorrent user has been ordered to pay $60,000 by a U.S.

District Court judge. The Calgary resident, who did not defend himself, was ordered to pay the damages for sharing two films on an adult-oriented BitTorrent tracker.

In the wake of first Pirate Bay trial in 2009, emboldened anti-piracy groups – “guilty” verdict in hand – started to apply pressure on torrent sites hosted in Sweden.

Antipiratbyrån wrote to several sites with warnings for them to discontinue any and all copyright-infringing operations.