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According to TorrentFreak, the MPAA, in cooperation with Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, claims to have shut down 12 torrent site in the US today. The catch, however, is that no one seems to have noticed, and the MPAA isn't naming the sites. If a site of any significance is suddenly closed down, sites that follow such actions are flooded with tips. As of yet, no one has noticed any "missing" torrent sites.
The MPAA is working closely with BREIN because the Dutch group have become adept at getting torrent sites removed in Europe. In those cases, as with these ones, complaints are made to the hosting providers of infringing sites, often leading to their removal. BREIN claims that they do not release names because many sites simply relocate to new hosting and begin again. At which point we have to wonder what the point is.
Some observers doubt the sites were active torrent trackers. The MPAA has been silent on the issue of these phantom sites. Have you noticed any torrent sites (where you get your Linux ISOs, right?) disappearing?
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Ghok
January 28, 2011 at 7:06pm
No, but then again I don't use torrent sites so much now that there are more legal services that provide a lot of the same stuff.
