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This is huge, what.cd site says "So long, and thanks for all the fish.", source for this news is zataz and reddit discussion thread.
Operation What.CD: 12 servers seized at OVH and Free
Released on 17 Nov 2016
The Gendarmerie Nationale has just put a stop to the business of the private tracker What.cd. 12 servers seized at OVH in Lille and Gravelines, as well as a machine at Free.
It is this Thursday, November 17th that the Gendarmerie Nationale, and more specifically the military of the center of fight against the digital criminals (C3N), has seized the servers mails, irc and trackers of the tracker torrent private What.cd. In short, a nice nest of data that the investigators are analyzing. A first phase is not negligible. Even if the site is still active, it does not work anymore.
The users who used this private tracker found themselves without any connection to the three million proposed torrents (if I quickly calculate, it gives 3 million X 15 X 13 x 0,07 €, or 41 million euros of damage for the Assignees, NDR). The machines were seized in majorities in the North of France (Lille, Roubaix, Graveline ...) because hosted at OVH.
According to my information, this is a first sentence in this investigation, which began two years ago. It appears that the gendarmes were seized by SACEM. The investigation continues. The data seem to make it possible to go back to many French people and administrators, but also to the "boss" of What.cd, based in the United Kingdoms.
Source - French Site
OOOO what happened
https://what.cd/
Regular maintenance, we'll be back soon!
They had an announcement about that some hours ago that both tracker and Irc will be down for some days, site was up and new torrents were being uploaded in regular basis
I wish it to be true :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Blitz
"Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish. "