TorrentFactory stops serving
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s day three of the TorrentFactory story under which Pablo, a 15-year-old Swiss programmer, takes on the might of the entertainment cartels represented, in this instance, by Holland’s BREIN, a kind of RIAA/MPAA combo.
Now, “Torrent downloading currently unavailable,” says Pablo.
“By following the BREIN instruction, we had to close all torrent download pages. I’m still gathering torrents on the developement environement. If you want to stay informed, join our Facebook page.”
The story so far:
Pablo creates an algorithm to “index web pages like Google’s”. But stresses he’s not making any money out of it. ‘Distributing torrents isn’t my main purpose, he says. I’ll keep improving the engine and serve other kind of data like pictures, videos, links or whatever — maybe an archive service — but I haven’t got that far yet.”
Then along comes BREIN with with, “In the interest of and on behalf of the rights holders represented by BREIN we request that you cease and desist the abovementioned unlawful activities within the next 24 hours.”
On Facebook, “Since distributing torrents in the Netherlands is considered as Illegal, I had to close the torrent distribution,” Pablo writes, addding:
“I’ll take a server somewhere else, remove some illegal torrents and keep everything running up.”
Shades of MiniNova, suggests Andrew aka Comeonecomcast. 
Stay tuned.
..… and identi.ca
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
15-year-old Swiss programmer – BREIN goes after TorrentFactory, January 3, 2010
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January 14th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
bye-bye pablo. i don’t use facebook. and if you’ve ever read any articles here about facebook, you’ll know that no-one should use facebook, myspace, or even twitter.
January 14th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
oh by the way pablo…brein has no jurisdiction in switzerland – where fileshring is legal.
swiss law states: “The making available of protected works is penalised, but downloading for personal use – even from an illegal source – continues to be allowed. Copies may be made for one’s own use…”
and
“private downloading in Switzerland does not require the author’s consent – even if the music was unlawfully made available. Since there is no legal precedent so far, the question cannot be conclusively decided.”
don’t give in to brein. they’re dutch. YOU ARE SWISS!
January 14th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Hey catflap thanks for the comments, are you from switzerland ?
I know but don’t forget that the servers provided from DediServ.eu is located in Netherlands so they have the right to shutdown the servers, and by respect, I closed the access to the torrent files until I find a solution.
The long term solution is hosting my own server in a Geneva datacenter but I’ll have to get the hardware and set it up… that would just be perfect but I’m still thinking on how will I get a few hundred bucks for that server… (and yeah I just bought the new iMac so I gotta slow down my spendings).
And don’t worry for the future, I’m working on the problem and the site might be online this friday afternoon (if everything goes well).
January 14th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Just find a different host. Demonoid has been chased around the globe by Brein, and they’re still with us today.
January 14th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Once you feel ready, release your project as open source for others to build on.
That way, not matter what happens to you the idea will never die, but will grow like
a cancer to plague the industry, with no way to wipe it out.
January 15th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Best of Luck Pablo
The Internets are behind you!