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MPAA and BREIN take down over 50 torrent sites, but nobody knows which ones
The Motion Picture Association of America has taken down 12 U.S. torrent sites in its latest round of anti-piracy complaints, with the help of Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN. The names of the sites haven't been released, but 12 of them were U.S.-based, and 39 were in other countries around the world. The takedowns happened through the standard route of filing copyright complaints with hosting services. Although this looks like a big bust on paper, no major torrent sites seem to have been affected. On the torrent news and community site TorrentFreak, commenters have been unable to identify a single site that's gone missing in this takedown. TorrentFreak's Ernesto had this to say in his report:
BREIN says it won't release the names of the sites, because it could give them publicity when they pop up with new hosting and new URLs. The MPAA, for its part, hasn't released a statement. With no names published, and no sites reported missing by their users, BREIN's claims that this was one of the most significant torrent site busts ever smell a little fishy."Twelve torrent sites were wiped from the Internet this week, but there is a catch to this 'unprecedented' action. As often with BREIN-led takedowns, nobody noticed a thing. If a torrent site of any significance goes offline for an hour or two our email inbox is usually alive with reports from readers. Today, however, we received none.
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Subscribe to commentsAdam EJan 28th 2011 3:42PM
And I just started 300 new ones...but I'm not telling you which ones.
kojo87Jan 28th 2011 4:59PM
ISOhunt, Demonoid and Pirate Bay are all still up. as long as those trackers are still up and running very few people are going to notice. most of those little sites are just aggregators anyway. this means practically nothing in the eyes of pirates.
KrazyCalvinJan 28th 2011 6:54PM
Myspleen is still there. thank god.
Nikola G.Jan 29th 2011 5:50AM
@KrazyCalvin Oh the memories I have years back on that site. I hear the invites are pretty rare, which is a bad, bad thing :/
JanJan 29th 2011 4:47AM
sharereactor.com is down ....
MartijnJan 29th 2011 5:26AM
I think this is great for everyone. BREIN is happy about shutting down some torrent sites and everyone else is happy because their favourite torrent sites are still up.
Way to go BREIN! Keep shutting down those illegal sites nobody uses anyway.
KrazyCalvinJan 29th 2011 11:13PM
@Nikola G. Ten invites available for myspleen!
__smooth__Jan 29th 2011 3:13PM
I wouldn't be surprised if they started with the little fishies and moved on up in order to corner P2P users.
Why don't the site admins send an e-mail to TF, saying theirs was affected?
Information CentralJan 29th 2011 5:39PM
When these assholes "media conglomerates" spend more time producing content and no time harassing paying customers and lobbying legislators to allow (nay, REQUIRE) technology to rip said customers off, they might garner a little sympathy.
Until then, REAM THEM.
Nikola G.Jan 30th 2011 5:05AM
@KrazyCalvin Could I bother for you to spare one at majeztic at gmail com ?
Thanks for the reply, appreciate it.
joshua steinertJan 31st 2011 10:12AM
@KrazyCalvin , i would like an invite jjsteinert at gmail