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Two torrent tracker sites shut down by...pirates ?
Kevin Spiess - Monday, January 7th, 2008 | 12:52PM (PT) 0 Favourites (0)


“Destroying The P2P’s, One Step at a Time” say anonymous 'warez' scenesters

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It's a doggy-eat-doggy world out there, out on the rough and tumble high-seas of Internet piracy. Most P2P torrent-tracker sites have to worry about being shutdown by the forces of copyright protection, such as the FBI and lobby groups like the MPAA. But now, it seems there is a new threat to torrent trackers: CELLKiLL -- a member of a group of angry 'warez' scene pirates who don't like P2P'ers.

Two BitTorrent Tracker websites, SuperTorrents and Feed The Net (FTN) have been surgically hacked-up by a small group of semi-anonymous warez-wizards, working in what is often referred to as the 'scene.' (The group-structured, mostly non-profit 'scene', is basically the original source of all pirated software, and much pirated movies and music in the world.)

A notification of the wrath unleashed upon the admin of the tracker SuperTorrent has been circulating around the dark corners of the Internet:

"Now this is the story all about how Ersan’s life got flipped turned upside down and I’d like to take a minute and just sit right there and tell you how Ersan became the prince of a town called bel air. This weeks source of lulz is provided free of charge via a site called supertorrents.org and the nicest Administrator you’ve ever met, Ersan."

With a little bit of work, angry pirates from 'the scene' hacked into many of "Ersan's" online accounts: including a PayPal account, and some email accounts. The scene pirate guys posted "Ersan's " real name, address, age, and other personal information onto some websites. They all so deleted a bunch of his online accounts, and donated the balance of SuperTorrent's donations account -- a grand total of about $2000 USD -- to a charity that belongs to a religious group that Ersan allegedly made inappropriate comments about. "Maximum lulz were achieved," reportedly  wrote on of the people involved in the hacking.

And pretty much the same thing happened to the admin of FTN: he had his online accounts hacked, and a great deal of his personal info posted online.

Why are these particular pirates angry with P2P sites? It seems that part of it is that hackers believe that the administrators of P2P trackers are making money and taking credit for files that wouldn't be there in the first place if it were not for 'the scene.' Here's another excerpt from the scene guys that hacked FTN: "His Torrent site steals thousands after thousands of releases from the scene, and then he has the nerve to go and say to other P2P’s STOP STEALING RELEASES FROM US?!??!? ILL BAN YO ASS! But wait, how is this even possible??"

Another part of the disgruntlement seems to be that all the attention P2P sites have been getting from the authorities is infringing on the security of the 'scene', which does not benefit from being under the spotlight.

CELLKiLL may or may not have any more trackers targeted for future attacks: “We have yet again erased another torrent admin from existence. Other Groups, do your part to make the scene what it was in the beginning. Secure."

You read more about these wacky happenstances at TorrentFreak here and here.

Source: TorrentFreak

Section: Internet Related

  • 0 thumbs!
    | Jan 8, 08
    More likely it is hackers who are being paid by the MPAA/RIAA to do their dirty work.
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    VeGiTAX2 since Apr 2001 | Jan 8, 08
    Actually the scene has been under constant investigations, the original FLT (Fairlight) team was dissolved because of a key raid, as were groups like Kalisto and I believe Echelon as well, there are more but those are some examples.

    The thing they're trying to escape? operation fastlink is the FBI program launched to track and expose and punish these scene groups.

    Given that most of these groups brag about recent events in their nfo files it wont be much of a mystery.
  • 0 thumbs!
    | Jan 8, 08
    Dude, you're not supposed to put FTN's URL up anywhere.
  • 0 thumbs!
    | Jan 8, 08
    omg, they got my public info from facebook, they are such a bigass h4xz0r5. LOL! both sites are runing smooth and nothing is going to happen to their admins...
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    kspiess since Jun 2007 | Jan 8, 08
    Jeff-=> Nah, don't think so. Wouldn't past'em, but not in this case.
    Vegi-=> Ya big money is involved in piracy now a days. Lot of busts. There was that Drink or Die guy who got nailed last summer for a bunch of years.
    Bill-=> Edited.
    loops -=> There was a bit more stuff beyond facebook info. Like the $2000 bucks 'redirected', for instance. But ya, I'm not sure how much actual hacking was involved. Besides the "Upon rooting the box and grabbing the unsecure predb and some scripts to play with we then rainbow tabled’d his password hash" stuff from the story source, one of the admins was un-smart enough to use the same password for multiple online accounts, which let to his stuff being easily compromised.
  • 0 thumbs!
    | Jan 30, 08
    WWW.FEEDTHE.NET

    WHY I CANNOT PUT THIS URL ANYWHERE? *bleep* IT. THIS SITE SUCKS
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