nsane.forums Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 In the last year or two the entertainment industries have targeted many BitTorrent sites. The majority of the verdicts against these sites have thus far ruled in favor of the copyright holders. Only in Spain have BitTorrent sites been repeatedly found to operate within the boundaries of the law.Of all the BitTorrent related websites OpenBitTorrent has been one of the most surprising targets. The tracker, which doesn’t link to or host any torrent files and is not linked to any torrent search engine, merely serves as a facilitator of the communication between torrent users, much like BitTorrent clients do. Despite this neutral and apparent non-infringing setup, the Swedish Court of Appeals ruled against the site two weeks ago. In a surprising verdict in a case started by Hollywood movie companies, the Court handed out an injunction to OpenBitTorrent’s hosting provider Portlane, ordering it to cease to provide Internet access to the tracker. The OpenBitTorrent site and tracker returned a few hours ago</h5>Following this decision OpenBitTorrent was pulled offline. TorrentFreak contacted the operators of the site who told us that they would be looking for a new hosting provider to bring back their tracker, so it could continue to coordinate the communications between the millions of people that were using it daily.Today, we were informed that OpenBitTorrent has finally found a new hosting company, interestingly enough one that is run by a Spanish company. Just hours after the tracker and its website returned, some 20 million peers spread over 200,000 torrents were already connected to the tracker and business continued as usual. OpenBitTorrent is currently battling for the title of the worlds largest BitTorrent tracker with PublicBitTorrent, another standalone tracker that runs on the Opentracker software. Both trackers handle the communications of between 20 and 30 million BitTorrent users at any given time of the day. Although it’s good to see that OpenBitTorrent has been resurrected, it’s worth nothing that the majority of all BitTorrent users probably never noticed that it had disappeared. Most torrents today come with several backup trackers that are used in case one goes down, and even without trackers at all DHT ensures that downloads continue to work. Update: Site and tracker seem to be down again, no word on what’s causing the downtime but we assume that it will be resolved quickly.Article from: TorrentFreak. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoYB Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Better to have one more than one less, regardless. :welcome: back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted June 4, 2010 Administrator Share Posted June 4, 2010 Odd. I cannot open the OpenBitTorrent site, nor does the tracker work. :unsure:Can anyone confirm that it's working for them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Same here, doesn't open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 Odd. I cannot open the OpenBitTorrent site, nor does the tracker work. :unsure:Can anyone confirm that it's working for them?It's not just you! http://openbittorrent.com looks down from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted June 4, 2010 Administrator Share Posted June 4, 2010 It's my favorite tracker. :(I'll see if I can find some info on TorrentFreak.EDIT: Here it is (please update the first post):Update: Site and tracker seem to be down again, no word on what’s causing the downtime but we assume that it will be resolved quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karachidude Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 oh OpenBitTorrent tracker down,what a terrible loss :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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