Batu69 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 The hugely popular private music torrent tracker What.CD has shut down. After a reported raid on several of its servers in France, The tracker says it has destroyed all site and user data. What.cd itself hasn't confirmed any police action but cites "recent events" as the reason for its drastic actions. Earlier today the popular music tracker What.cd became inaccessible. While the reason for the sudden outage remained a mystery for a while, a message that was just posted on the site and official Twitter account shows that the downtime is likely to be permanent. What.cd appears to have shut down effective immediately, and the site’s operators say they’ve destroyed all data in the process. “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,” the announcement reads. What.cd farewell message According to the French news site Zataz, the cybercrime unit of the Gendarmerie (C3N) raided twelve servers operated by the tracker at hosting provider OVH, and one server that was stored at Free. TorrentFreak spoke to Damien Bancal, the author of the article, who noted that the information came from credible and trusted sources. Also, C3N confirmed that there was a police operation this morning, but didn’t specifically mention What.cd. The French music industry group SACEM was reportedly involved in the investigation, which has been ongoing for two years. No arrests have been reported, and it’s unclear if any of the seized data is readable. TorrentFreak reached out to SACEM, What.cd’s hosting provider, and one of the site’s operators, and we will update this article if a response is forthcoming. With the apparent demise of What.cd, the torrent world will lose one of its biggest icons. What.cd first appeared online in the fall of 2007, just a handful of days after the demise of the largest music tracker at the time, OiNK. What.cd’s founders wanted to give nearly 200,000 homeless music fans somewhere to go, a place they could call home – a torrent site to fill the void left by the closure of the Pink Palace. In the years that followed, What.cd grew beyond all expectations, outgrowing OiNK and establishing itself as the greatest music-sharing torrent site the world has ever known. Today, this journey appears to have come to an end. TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 this is bad, BAD news....I enjoyed the site for years and years Let's all hope WhatCD will come back in some form someday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 That's what happens when you close filesharing off too a select group of people in a non public sense , site goes down everything is lost on public BitTorrent it never matters one closes down another lives on as long as some are willing to seed the torrent lives on long after the site is gone Music piracy is impossible to stop when i was a kid we shared mixed tapes and dubbed our friends tapes , i got a whole box of CDs that can easy be ripped to flacs and shared . The scene pushes out 100s of music releases a day and there not part of BitTorrent. They try to stop it when they sued Napster , Kazaa , Limewire etc but how do you stop something that person on dailup can even share trough any kind of file transfer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 48 minutes ago, steven36 said: That's what happens when you close filesharing off too a select group of people in a non public sense , site goes down everything is lost on public BitTorrent it never matters one closes down another lives on as long as some are willing to seed the torrent lives on long after the site is gone Music piracy is impossible to stop when i was a kid we shared mixed tapes and dubbed our friends tapes , i got a whole box of CDs that can easy be ripped to flacs and shared . The scene pushes out 100s of music releases a day and there not part of BitTorrent. They try to stop it when they sued Napster , Kazaa , Limewire etc but how do you stop something that person on dailup can even share trough any kind of file transfer? I'm confident that all files from WhatCD will be made available somehow soon and the gap that WhatCD leaves will be filled by another initiative because that's what always happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 22 minutes ago, Skunk1966 said: I'm confident that all files from WhatCD will be made available somehow soon and the gap that WhatCD leaves will be filled by another initiative because that's what always happens There's really no gap if you were to look no ways bro . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Just now, steven36 said: There's really no gap if you were to look no ways bro . I know a few places where quite a bit of the same files can be found but if you know some place better than rutracker etc. please inform me by pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronY-Man Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 All the world needs right now is a massive EMP attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flitox Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 raid by the police was supposed to have happened in the morning while the site was still reachable in the afternoon and had tracker problems for like a day or 2.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko666 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 I actually want to kill myself right now. What.cd was my second home, I don't know what I'm even going to do now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 A new site could come up to take it's place ,but one thing is for sure all bit torrent sites are leaving France host because of this i cant believe they was even hosted there PTP is under planned maintenance changing there host around because of this they say its going take along time . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luaine Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 What.cd Admin : We’re Sad to Say the Site Is Not Coming Back http://motherboard.vice.com/read/whatcd-admin-were-sad-to-say-the-site-is-not-coming-back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 4 hours ago, IronY-Man said: All the world needs right now is a massive EMP attack. And then, what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwardecl Posted November 18, 2016 Share Posted November 18, 2016 Like Oink before it, something else will rise up, was good while it lasted nothing lasts forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudboy Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Oink, Blackcats, Waffles, What, Gazelle, etc. They all die sooner or later. The part I don't like about it all is that thousands and thousands of movies, music, television, games, etc. are completely out of print and can no longer be purchased, rented, streamed, or otherwise unless it's through a 3rd party who may happen to have it available legally... but the original rights holder makes ZERO from those sales anyway. Imo anything you cannot buy brand new, cannot be streamed, etc should be allowed to be shared. So many things that will be completely lost, that so many people will never be able to see or hear. Magazines also. Old out of print issues that you just can't buy anywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xionic Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Keep in mind that this not ordinary case like kat.etc..this site was a very fast alternative(with same uploaders BTW) for Oink created after less than a week the last shutdown So no worry guys,we'll get the same HQ jams when the next alternative comes out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted November 19, 2016 Share Posted November 19, 2016 That's why i like public download sites better it's even a problem in forums in the past were you had to sign in to download ,, Everyone works there butt off building a site then one day it just closes some may or may not try to make a site like it but its never the same . If i dont get involved and attached to people I didn't lose nothing. I just download from filehost and public p2p get my stuff and go on my merry way if the site closes i just move on to somewhere else . Look at it this way at lest you had all those years of great releases and they told you why they were shutting down many sites vanish and never give a real reason . If you want to make a difference share all that great music you downloaded with people somewhere else . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alice jones Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 this is sad news for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
straycat19 Posted November 20, 2016 Share Posted November 20, 2016 On 11/19/2016 at 5:51 AM, steven36 said: That's why i like public download sites better it's even a problem in forums in the past were you had to sign in to download ,, Everyone works there butt off building a site then one day it just closes some may or may not try to make a site like it but its never the same . If i dont get involved and attached to people I didn't lose nothing. I just download from filehost and public p2p get my stuff and go on my merry way if the site closes i just move on to somewhere else . I have been getting my music files from the same places for the last 23 years. They have never closed and they have the largest collection of music anywhere. I am referring to private FTP servers. Theses were started many years ago among a handful of people and expanded over the years as the circle of friends expanded. And it is easy to control who has access and who is allowed to upload. Even usenet has proven to be more reliable than p2p or torrents, since you can still download music posts that are years old, but still complete. And since quickpar is still used, even posts that have portions deleted can be downloaded in full. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKVlover Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 XANAX is a new music tracker, a few days old. Quote In the wake of what can only be described as a tragedy, where the world lost an extraordinary tracker to corporate greed, we bring you XANAX to ease the pain. First we lost OiNK and now we've lost What.CD... We can't just stand by and watch this happen again. We open our doors to thousands of heartbroken music lovers and we are confident that our community will build itself back up, piece by piece. I'd like to quote What.CD staff: "What happens next is in your hands." Let us show the world they can't bring down the love for music. https://xanax.rip/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 14 hours ago, MKVlover said: https://xanax.rip/ I'm in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP333 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 2 hours ago, Skunk1966 said: I'm in how did you register have you got a invite for xanax.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayesh30202 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Just now, KP333 said: how did you register have you got a invite for xanax.. signup was open for a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KP333 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 1 minute ago, jayesh30202 said: signup was open for a few hours. guess i missed it not open now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayesh30202 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 Just now, KP333 said: guess i missed it not open now i will invite you whenever i can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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