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    What.cd Shuts Down Following Reported Raids in France

    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.

    whatEarlier 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.

    https://torrentfreak.com/images/whatcddown.png

    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.
    Source: Torrentfreak
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    What are the alternative to what cd
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    Quote Originally Posted by fraudman View Post
    What are the alternative to what cd
    No good alternatives exist right now. Waffles has been down for weeks!.
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    Guess I'll never know what was said about me in the Torrent Celebrity forums now

    The loss of such a large and meticulously organized music archive is regrettable, but nothing lasts forever, especially if it has a huge target for the RIAA and law enforcement painted on its back. I'm glad they were at least able to hit the self-destruct button before police got their hands on the server (if that's how it went, anyway). With this and Waffles being MIA for weeks, it's going to be interesting to see how the torrent scene adapts.

    Its legacy will live on inside users' hard drives and archived "What.cd disabled me for no reason" threads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by anon View Post
    I'm glad they were at least able to hit the self-destruct button before police got their hands on the server (if that's how it went, anyway).
    I really, really hope this is true. What.cd had the idiotic policy of only allowing connections from your home ISP, no proxy or VPN allowed. It was the only place that I didn't use a proxy.
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    Not to mention all the other activity data that they permanently monitored and logged. I always opposed that on the grounds that it's highly compromising information should it fall in the wrong hands... and look at this now.

    Perhaps other tracker administrators will finally wisen up.
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    I read that the person who created BTN is working on creating WhatCD's replacement with staff from other trackers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Codec View Post
    I read that the person who created BTN is working on creating WhatCD's replacement with staff from other trackers.
    Great I hope it will be ratioless like BTN
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    This has been a bad year. Lot of sites went down, both public and private, and big ones.
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    Looks like something is happening, Check this out : https://nostream.co

    ---------- Post Merged at 08:56 ---------- Previous Post was at 08:52 ----------

    From the whatcd twitter page:

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxlIZkZUcAE2pXy.jpg
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    Quote Originally Posted by Codec View Post
    I read that the person who created BTN is working on creating WhatCD's replacement with staff from other trackers.
    Quote Originally Posted by fraudman View Post
    Looks like something is happening, Check this out : https://nostream.co
    And so it begins.
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    Fucking frogs!

    I can't believe WCD had servers in France. What were they thinking???

    I also can't believe the Goliath of music tracker closes because of French David.

    With Waffles in a long-term coma, it's gonna be hard to beat Spotify!
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    Personally I say good riddance. I hated their guts, staff was filled with stuck-up imbeciles.
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    who cares about the staff
    the content was invaluable
    it's all gone now, it will take long time to rebuild the music database
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