MovieX BitTorrent Tracker Busted By Australian Police

[anon]

MovieX, a very large BitTorrent site which made the headlines last year for its controversial tracker policy, has been shut down by Australian police. The site, thought to have as many as 400,000 users, is being blamed for the ‘transfer’ of 14 million movies and TV shows. So far, two people have been arrested.

MovieX BitTorrent Tracker Busted By Australian Police | TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/moviex-bittorrent-tracker-busted-by-australian-police-081204/)

The same MovieX that used the "leeching forbidden, you're only allowed to seed"-passkey method to leech off non-members downloading a (public) torrent with the tracker's URL embedded on its metadata. Let's see what comes out of this...

[anon]

Update


Just over a day since the MovieX BitTorrent tracker disappeared following the arrest of two admins, the 400,000 member site has returned. A remaining admin is adamant that TorrentFreak completely fabricated the story and that the brothers who ran the site weren’t arrested. All the indications point to the opposite being true.

Despite Arrests MovieX BitTorrent Tracker Back Online | TorrentFreak (http://torrentfreak.com/despite-arrests-moviex-bittorrent-tracker-back-online-081205/)

The tracker seems to be now up. I have seen dev0's post saying TF's article was totally made-up yesterday. Wonder what they intended...