We must inform you that usually downloading any copyrighted torrent files is considered illegal in various countries and regions. Avoid being tracked for Music Torrent downloads Sam MachkovechThose posts, whose text was duplicated on the site's official front page, noted "recent events," which is a mild way of describing French authorities apparently seizing the site's full load of servers.Part 1. That could mean that the official Twitter account's promise of "destroyed" data is inaccurate (although none of the official statements explain exactly how what.cd continues to exist as an accessible site).įrench technology news site Zataz reported on Thursday that the nation's National Gendarmerie office nabbed the servers that hosted the site's database, IRC, and trackers. Though Zataz doesn't list an exact day of seizure, a cursory Twitter search shows user complaints of What.cd "tracker outages" beginning yesterday, November 16. What.cd launched in 2007 within weeks of another major music-tracker site, oink.cd, being famously busted and shut down by British and Dutch police forces. The site launched around the same time as another splinter site, waffles.fm, and both largely resembled "OiNK's Pink Palace," particularly when it came to enforcing rules about the quality of any music shared through its trackers. Public numbers didn't confirm which splinter site picked up a larger number of users and shared torrents, but what.cd appears to have lasted longer, with waffles.fm switching to a new domain that currently does not ping publicly. Reddit users at the site's r/trackers subdomain have complained that waffles.cd has appeared to have gone dark as well, but no major reports about that site's closure or seizure have appeared just yet. Update, 11:59pm Eastern: Ars has received a response from the operator of What.cd's Twitter account.
The respondent would only identify him or herself as "an administrator" of the former site, but the person alleges that the torrent site's operation was shut down by its administrators, not a police or government force.
"The facts are pretty skimpy right now," What.cd's representative says.
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