Torrenting ’s long arrivederci just claimed another victim .
What . CD , an invite - only euphony torrenting tracker and replacement to Oink ’s Pink Palace has been exclude down after virtually a decade follow a raid by French authority . All twelve servers run by What . CD were capture earlier today in a sweeping effort to shut out down the service and its estimated 3 million torrents , Zatazreports .
While music has been available to lawlessly download from the net for as long as people have had the bandwidth to do so , the defining characteristic of What . CD was its obsessivity . user of the site not only sought out rare stuff that was not promptly uncommitted to purchase or slip , but What . CD members also painstakingly sort it by year , genre , bitrate , and a salmagundi of other parameters that made it a veritable Wikipedia for music nerds .
The community facet of What . CD was peculiarly impressive . Forum posts propose members on the best ways to maintain a confirming upload : download ratio and right add together tracker to the site . The story of precision bear of — and carry out by — the community at large was in truth awe - inspiring , legality notwithstanding .
Visitors to the site were recognize close to an minute ago by the following substance :
Due to some late events , What . CD is shutting down . We are not likely to return any clip before long in our current form . All web site and user datum has been destroyed . So long , and thanks for all the fish .
As The Vergepoints out , the very same Hitchhiker ’s Guide parentage was used as Oink ’s obituary back in 2007 .
While the message take imply server datum has been destroyed , X - members strike to an IRC chat to strategize . “ Stop torrents , or delete them from the customer if you desire to be extra sure , ” a user named ratter posted . “ Jus pausing them still anounces them to the tracker , while deleting the file serves no purpose ( sic ) . ”
The sudden closedown also led individual telecasting game tracker GazelleGames to shut down preemptively “ until further observation . ”
“ We can reconstruct , we can make another , ” Redditorvelzeratposted in a live thread regarding the seizure . “ As long as the citizenry have access to the data point , and as long as the means are there to move it , the information stays . Just detain hopeful and organize . ”
alas , What . CD is only the late in a long time - long effort to crack down on torrenting communities with few if any of the big players — private or public — lead digest .
[ Zataz , The scepter ]
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