BREIN p2p raid update
p2p news / p2pnet: As was reported here yesterday, the Dutch “arm” of the movie and music cartels’ pseudo police force announced several “primary targets” in its war against innocent victims who are doing nothing illegal or immoral.
Late last night/early this morning, BREIN began (or at least tried to begin) its illegal take-downsof legal BitTorrent indexing sites.
Last week, for some unknown reason, BREIN’s head “brain”, Tim Kuik, publicly announced the organization was about to attack dozens of websites, effectively giving web site admins sufficient time to move their sites to different hosts and countries.
Truly an act worthy of The Keystone Kops:
BREIN: Hey, we’re gonna shut you down…next week…maybe. But we’re telling you now.
BT Admin: Oh. OK. Thanks for the warning. 
The press release mentioned it would be going after the newly resurrected Suprnova, now known as NewNova.
Slyck surmised other targets would probably include TorrentSpy.com, Snarf-it.org, MiniNova.com, TripTorrent, and Demoniod.com.
As of this writing, here’s the current status of these websites:
- Demonoid – seems to be offline.
- Snarf-it – “Snarf Will be Coming back, bigger and badder than ever before…He’s Riding the Wave to a New Home, and gaining some new friends…”
- TripTorrent – seems to be offline.
- Mininova – online.
- NewNova – online.
- TorrentSpy – online.
It’s not known if Demonoid or TripTorrent were attacked by BREIN, or if they’re in the process of moving. It’s also not known (by this writer) where these websites are/were/will be located.
What’s known is that BREIN and the illegal movie and music cartels (a cartel is illegal by any definition!) are continuing their illegal and immoral persecutions of innocent, law-abiding people and websites with their sue ‘em all campaigns.
This cat and mouse game is very annoying, but p2pers can play it as long as they want them to play it, as proven by the fact that for each illegal takedown of a legal indexing website, ten more appear within days, and/or those affected websites move to countries which respect the basic human rights of freedom, free speech, and freedom of choice to do what they wish with legally purchased “product” – as long as no one is making money.
We know the cartels – and their paid-for lackeys and police forces in foreign countries – won’t win this war against our freedoms. They can’t, and it’s been proven time and again.
If they’re so bent on taking down web sites, they should spend their time and energy more productively on closing down paedophile and white slave websites, and arresting their owners and ISPs. These are the pages that are harming society and people in every country of the world. These are the websites that are making money from someone’s misfortunes.
Filesharing isn’t a crime. Filesharing isn’t a profit-making venture. Filesharing isn’t theft. It’s the electronic epitome of freedom of speech and freedom of choice – freedoms that governments and their agencies should be protecting.
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October 25th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
So, who won the climactic pie-fight?
October 25th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
“(a cartel is illegal by any definition!) ”
Wow you must be smoking some serious crack. Do you even know what you are talking about?
A cartel is organization that induces price fixing, and keeping tight control over an enterprise. This is illegal in most countries within their own sovereignty. However, internationally, cartels are allowed to exist..
A prime example: OPEC
So, there are exceptions to this rule you have pulled out of the sky.
October 25th, 2005 at 5:43 pm
>BREIN: Hey, we’re gonna shut you down…next week…maybe. But we’re telling you now.
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>BT Admin: Oh. OK. Thanks for the warning.
My guess is that it REALLY was a warning. The Dutch legal system is not wound as tight as most.
October 25th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
http://www.demonoid.com/
We are having problems with our server. We’ll be back as soon as possible, but due the nature of the problems, it might take a few days.
October 25th, 2005 at 10:59 pm
“… as long as no one is making money.”
These sites ARE making money, by advertising and begging for donations, if they weren’t they had little to fear under the current dutch judicial system as far as I understand them. They are in it for the money hence they are running with their tails between their legs, good riddance!
October 25th, 2005 at 11:53 pm
i agree that trackers and indexing sites should not beg, request or require donations, and in return offer lame “VIP” status. that’s just bullshit. whether they’re actually earning a profit and keeping it is anyone’s guess, but it only fuels the lies that “everyone” is making money from p2p, especially filesharers.
i’ve said this many times here on p2pnet. if someone wants to make a tracker or indexing site, they should be prepared and willing to pay for it themselves, otherwise they have no business making a website.
i used to have a very big problem with demonoid because of their former elitest attitude. but for the most of this past year, they’ve allowed indexing of torrents from anywhere, which is much fairer than barring them outright as they used to. i still don’t like – or agree with – ratio tracking, but demonoid now only tracks files oin their own tracker.
i had never heard of triptorrent, so i don’t know what they do. i never used snarf. occasionally i use torrentspy. and i regularly use mininova and newnova.
but i NEVER give money to anyone for something that should be totally free.
in my article, i was refering to websites and counterfeiters who charge money for films or p2p services as a requirement.
but, that is not what my article is about. it’s about the unlawful persecution of innocent, law-abiding filesharers and (for the most part).
as jon newton emailed me today: “It’s all part of cartel attempts to crush BT before it starts using it for its own purposes, etc etc.”
that’s what this article is about.
October 25th, 2005 at 11:55 pm
HELLO ANONYMOUS COWARD!
October 26th, 2005 at 12:58 am
“but, that is not what my article is about. it’s about the unlawful persecution of innocent, law-abiding filesharers and (for the most part)”
What a bunch of hookie…how much content on these trackers is actually non-copyrighted?
October 26th, 2005 at 1:43 am
Is there any news what happened to Torrentit? It went down the other day and hasn’t been active since.
This was one of the best tracker sites I used and keeping the ratios up made downloading a dream.
October 26th, 2005 at 5:32 am
haha! so what is your real name then?
October 26th, 2005 at 11:45 am
TorrentIt was/is hosted on Leaseweb in Holland so they may be Moving..
Thanks
TRIPTORRENTS ADMIN
MAKAVELI
October 26th, 2005 at 11:46 am
Ok.. this is the deal.. I am an admin of TripTorrents..
i have many connections with other BT admins
WE DO NOT (other than a few.. which will probably not like to be named)
MAKE ANY PROFIT FROM THESE SITES/TRACKERS
all the money either goes to Server costs (which are fawkin high) or Script improvements..
it is not a very nice thing when you put alot of time, effort and money into starting a BT site/Tracker and getting nothing to show the appriciation and assistance to help pay for server costs.. as I SHOULD KNOW…
Thanks
TRIPTORRENTS ADMIN
MAKAVELI
October 26th, 2005 at 2:57 pm
Nobody said anything about PROFIT mr. admin. The point is if people pay for your site then they could have payed for their downloaded content instead (and gotten a lot less, which is besides the point). So money does change hands and the copyright holders don’t get a (fair or otherwise) share of that, some people (judges for instance) might think that is not the way it should be…