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What.CD, SumoTracker, BTMon, and FullDls Targeted by CRIA

By soulxtc

MoxioColo, the ISP for each of the BitTorrent tracker sites, was recently served with cease and desist orders. It looks like things are heating up again in Canada for BitTorrent tracker sites and their users with recent news that Moxio Colo, the ISP for a number of major BitTorrent tracker sites including: What.cd, SumoTorrent, BTMon and FullDls, has been served with cease and desist orders from the CRIA. If you recall, it was the CRIA whom was previously able to pressure an ISP to close another fabled Canada-based BitTorrent tracker site - Demonoid - which even attempted to block Canadian visitors in order to avoid legal action. The CRIA still threatened the ISP renting servers to the site and ultimately led to Demonoid finding a new host in the Ukraine instead.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).