TorrentFreak a freaking joke or the real thing?
Posted February 18th, 2008 by Alex Ion
Breaking News: TorrentFreak has been shut-down by the FBI
Breaking News: TorrentFreak has also been shut-down by the Motion Picture Association and the German Federation Against Copyright Theft (GVU)
I’ve been a reader of TorrentFreak for some time now. They seemed to have a very big readership (if I’m not wrong up to 32,000+ RSS subscribers) all interested in BitTorrent news and related information, getting about 1 million unique users a month. Yes, that’s definitely a big blog that made it to Digg’s front page very often, but what is going on you may ask.
Well it’s either a hacker’s joke or they really got shot down by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for criminal copyright infringement and are under investigation. However, when I refreshed I saw that they got closed by the German Federation Against Copyright Theft (GVU) and the Motion Picture Association for Illegal Downloading.
I think it’s obvious. Someone has control over TF and if you consider that for the last 48 hours they had server problems. These are just two screenshots I’ve taken but the “intruder” could have more.
If you’re one of their readers, like I am, I will keep you posted on what’s going on in a while.
