July 04, 2008 by sharky
What is going on with all these private trackers being offline? It seems like half of the private BitTorrent world is down.
As reported by TorrentFreak, Malaysian Government Orders Torrent Sites Shutdown - we’ve noticed some prominent (and very elite) trackers across the private BitTorrent scene have been affected by this mass closure. Big deal, you say? What’s a few torrent sites, anyways? Well, if you have an account at some of the these secretive & secure private trackers, you may be wondering why you can’t access them anymore. For instance, if you have PtN or FtN, we don’t need to reassure you that this IS a big deal.
So who else is affected by the shutdown? Both low and high-level trackers alike. These trackers listed below are confirmed to be related to the Malaysian crackdown:
PtN — Down since 06/24/08 (hosted in Singapore, Malaysia, but the outage was originally reported as a DDoS attack). The PtN URL will not connect.
FtN — Down since 06/26/08 (also hosted in Malaysia on Piradius). The URL still reports:
Extremebits.org — See RapThe.Net below. - EDIT - Sept 4/08 - it’s back online!
RapThe.Net — The website only reads, "ExtremeBits.org and RapThe.Net were suspended due to pressure from the Malaysian government. We have backups of everything - nothing is lost! Sites have now moved to new servers, and will be back up the 17th of july. Please do not remove torrents etc, we WILL be back up on the 17th! See you then! Enjoy your summer! /x0r" - EDIT - Sept 4/08 - it’s back online!
Brokenstones.cn — Down since 06/27/08 - read the website info about Malaysia. - EDIT - Aug. 08 - it’s back online at brokenstones.eu
Superfundo.org — Originally shut down, but now back online.
Possibly related (but unconfirmed) down trackers:
ScL (the Clover) — Down since 07/03/08 - hosted by GoDaddy.com?, if you can believe that!
FSC — Was down since 06/27/08 - login screen is back up.
Bitapps.org — Down since 06/26/08 (permanently)
BitSeek.org — Down since 06/26/08 (permanently)
VipV2.org — Down since 06/28/08 (permanently)
DeepBassNine.com — Down since 06/19/08 - NOW back online.
Scene-HD.net — Down since 06/24/08 (permanently)
HD Corea — Erroneously reported as ‘down’, but they’re just hiding. They are only accessible via DNS. (Thanks to ‘A5′ for this update).
eBookVortex.com — Down since 07/03/08 - NOW back online.
AOMKiller.net — Down since 07/02/08 (permanently)
ScT — Tracker/site was down (and is back up), but I lost all connectability on the torrents I already had running (in both µtorrent and in my seedbox), and the tracker reports me as non-connectable. Downloading a new torrent fixed this, although I couldn’t do an "Update Tracker" on my ScT seeding torrents in µtorrent, and had to delete them.
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