Thread: Leecher's Lair ordered to SHUT DOWN

Government Shuts Down BitTorrent Tracker | TorrentFreak

Today the Malaysian government ordered prominent webhosting provider Shinjiru to close down BitTorrent site LeechersLair.com. The order came from the Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission.

It hasn’t been a very good week for BitTorrent trackers, and all the signs are it’s going to get worse. We all know what happened last Friday and yesterday only brought more bad news, as many more trackers in Sweden decided to close.
This morning TorrentFreak was informed of the closure of another long-standing BitTorrent tracker.
Although it doesn’t have the profile of sites like The Pirate Bay, LeechersLair (LL) is a well-established tracker. Launched in 2006, LL has around 18,000 members who enjoy all the usual content. Until today the site was hosted in Malaysia - not any more.
This morning the Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) ordered Shinjiru, LeechersLair’s host, to close down the site, citing a breach of Section 41 of the Copyright Act 1987.
SKMM is a government body which enforces the communications and multimedia laws in Malaysia. It informed Shinjiru by faxed letter that if it failed to close LeechersLair, it would be breaking the law. Shinjiru immediately complied and took the site offline.
The government of Malaysia has moved against torrent sites hosted by Shinjiru before, as we reported back in June 2008, but most of them returned elsewhere.
However, there was a worrying development when one of the sysops of another torrent site, tbkresources.org - also hosted at Shinjiru, told TorrentFreak that a hard drive had been attached to their server and it was copying data for use in a copyright infringement case against them. Shinjiru confirmed the report.
At this stage it is unclear if LeechersLair will return, but we will update this post when we have more information. In the meantime other trackers hosted by Shinjiru continue to operate but whether or not they are being monitored is anyone’s guess.
Both Shinjiru and the Malaysian government were given the opportunity to comment, but as yet we’ve received no response.

Thats awful and it will only get worse now when TPB lost.

I think it is understandable, nobody wants to go to jail. But on other hand, I believe this is just a re-trenching, these days it is very easy to get a server on other side of the world and host from there.

This is not the end of torrenting, this is the beginning of the new era, not necessarily a change for worse...

EDIT:

List of trackers going/went down:
Wolfbits
Powerbits
Piratebits
Nordicbits
Hyperbits
mp3nerds
Swepiracy
Swebits

I found it on other forum so it might not be 100% correct...

That's too bad, feel sorry for the people who had TB of data uploaded there =/

...I hadn't logged in today yet. D@$#@%!! One of my oldest tracker...very sorry to see it go. I will hope for the best for everyone there.

Originally Posted by Sadasity

G.

No wonder that is why I could not access the site wow I hope this is not a snowball effect from TPB on top of the hill. But LL is a private tracker not public like TPB. Not good news at all folks.
Randy

It is definitely a sad thing. But I have to agree with koli.fx. This is just gonna weed out a lot of trackers. But for everyone that shuts down 3 more are gonna pop up. Our communities aren't over,they just need to tighten up and try to stay as invisible as possible.

Originally Posted by koli.fx

I think it is understandable, nobody wants to go to jail. But on other hand, I believe this is just a re-trenching, these days it is very easy to get a server on other side of the world and host from there.

This is not the end of torrenting, this is the beginning of the new era, not necessarily a change for worse...

yeah u are right this is not the end of torrenting but one thing which i concluded from whole this scenario is it may open the path way for the other anti torrenting authorities . First TPB has faced some muzik now LL wot comes next we dont know & these actions undoubtedly would encourage those authorities which are actively creating a propaganda against file sharing community

Thanks for this news, a sad one though. I'm a new member of LL, now I know why I can't log-on the site. They gave me a good buffer to start with and now I can't use it anymore. Hope LL returns.