What.cd is closed

A few hours ago it became known that the largest closed BitTorrent music tracker what.cd was closed. Apparently, this is a long time, most likely forever.

The message on the main page says that all user information is destroyed. At the same time, “recent events” are mentioned without further explanation.

On the what.cd page on Twitter, the information was confirmed, but the details are still not enough. What.cd denied the version of the seizure of the database by outsiders.

However, there is no particular secret. Wikipedia already has a message stating that yesterday the police arrested the OVH server in France.

On November 17, 2016, 12 servers were seized from OVH in the north of France. [4] [16] Shortly afterwards, whats a CD is shutting down.

History and significant events

For the first time I found out about this tracker from the paper then “Computerra” ( online version is here ). Written interesting, I recommend for reading.

What.cd opened in October 2007 - the closing day of the well-known audiophile torrent tracker Oink . Immediately there began to flow "refugees" from the closed OINK. The user base, the number of torrents and the volume of traffic grew rapidly and already in 2010 there were over a million torrents on the site. For closed BitTorrent trackers, this was a record .

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We do occasionally have legal issues. Our main problem lately has been with donation processing services – every time we get a new method of accepting donations, the IFPI is very fast to send threatening emails to the service and cut off our revenue stream. It’s very difficult to find a payment processing service which will offer us the privacy and protection we need.

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