Sceners Threaten to Destroy BitTorrent, “One Step at a Time”
Written by enigmax on January 07, 2008SuperTorrents recently fell victim to an attack by alleged ‘Scene’ members who revealed the site owner’s identity. Further action was promised against torrent sites and today another tracker admin’s life has been turned upside down. The attacker’s message: “Destroying The P2P’s, One Step at a Time”
At the end of last year we reported on the unfortunate fate of Ersan, the administrator of SuperTorrents. He suffered multiple security breaches which revealed his identity along with the loss of $2000 in donations. Scene notices (text files carrying news/other info) carried lots of the gory details, with one ending in a threat: “cellkill is next”.
It seems that the administrator of a torrent site known as FTN has become the group’s latest BitTorrent victim, exactly as promised. In yet another notice with the header “Destroying The P2Ps, One Step at a Time”, part of the justification for the attack reads:
“Many have heard of him, but have never spoke to him, for a p2per word of him has come far as the scene. [real name removed], the owner of a torrent site known as FTN. His Torrent site steals thousands after thousands of releases from the scene, and then he has the nerve to go and say to other P2P’s STOP STEALING RELEASES FROM US?!??!? ILL BAN YO ASS! But wait, how is this even possible??
[real name removed] isn’t on the “Staff” page yet he’s still banning people, posting news and running the entire site. Mr. [removed], did you really think you were gonna leave without us giving you a goodbye present? Guess again ;-)”
The grim reality becomes clear as detail after detail of this admin’s personal life is revealed. His real name, date of birth, place of residence, personal email addresses, home ISP and IP address, places of education, friends, family - it’s quite a grim read. The claim that the admin is currently studying ‘Computer Security’ must pile on the embarrassment in spades. Family and friends who have also had their identities revealed can’t be too pleased that their FaceBook profiles are now public information.
Does this action against FTN signal the end of this ‘war’ on BitTorrent or will the MPAA and RIAA be rubbing their hands with delight on a regular basis? At least one other admin has been threatened for helping the admin of SuperTorrents after the original attack but there aren’t any more specifics at the moment.
The attackers left with this message: “We have yet again erased another torrent admin from existence. Other Groups, do your part to make the scene what it was in the beginning. Secure.”
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They “erased another torrent admin from existence” by…revealing his personal information? Hmm.
Cowards.
3rd post yay!!
I seriously think these ‘hackers’ are like 10 years old..
get a life you fucks. nobody gives a shit, go cry to mommy and suck your daddys dong.
Pretty much all the info they gathered could and probably would be on some social networking site anyways and getting the ISP/IP is very easy.
It would be a great laugh if some super hacker could get them.
Also I’m with Anon I don’t know how this stops the site forever or kills off the admin =/
“cellkill” is the group that released the information, please learn how to read the name of scene releases… the administrator they are talking about has tried to get himself leave for a while because he needs the time, nothing strange about it.
I think the point is that if his information is posted on the net it makes it easier for the MPAA and RIAA to build a case as there is little recon to be done.
If his private information is out there for everyone then he will no longer want to admin a site that could get him in allot of trouble.
Administrators go to great lengths to protect their privacy.
Yup ‘I think’ is correct.
The thing is that I do not get why they are doing this. Do they want to stop P2P as the title says? Or as said later in the post, do they want to take down the people that make P2P look like a joke or something?
If that is the case then I dont mind. Yet, if they want to stop P2P just for the hell of it then that is not cool at all. I will wait for some more extra info on this.
How the fuck is the leaks from the scene an security issue? Lets strike back and reveal the scenes identity, name, birth and credit card numbers :D
It’s interesting to see how much the majors and the scene have in common.
Maybe they should venture together…
This is an interesting P2P sandwich, we’ve got the MPAA/RIAA pushing from the top and the hacker anarchists pushing from the bottom. Who knew the scene could get this complex and dramatic.
I wonder if it’s the pirates that actually sell content for money who are really behind these “outings”.
P2P destroyed the market for copied movies and albums for the REAL pirates.
Those are the individuals that have bad feelings about p2p.
“Other Groups, do your part to make the scene what it was in the beginning. Secure.” is really funny reading. They blame the administrators of some p2p sites for the scene to be unsecure. But anyone reasonable understand that if the scene is unsecure, it’s because of all the wannabe teens. 99% security breeches are human, the scene can blame it self.
Anyways, the scene network has gone quite public nowadays (read: they are a bunch of wannabes that like to expose themselves). There are other hc network that exist peacefully in the shadow of the scene…
… “they” want to make the scene as it was before, secure?
It’s not the fault of the admins, that the bittorrent protocol isn’t secure, wanne go underground?
instead of hacking you could just help in improving security i.e. by writing a superior tracker script or thinking about a ways to make the protocol anonymous … you d*mba*s
“With friends like these…”
It’s hilarious that these idiots are accusing the torrent site operators as “stealing” from Teh Scene — Cellkill are proving themselves to be cowardly wankers!
I guess they’ll find friends in the RIAA?
Half of the people posting don’t understand what’s going on. Or maybe they don’t know what the scene is.. Heres a hint, scene =/= P2P.
Well what happens next?
Well, at least the last big busts in the german “scene” were done by the GVU, using rats inside the scene. So I bet even if BT or p2p as a whole would disappear, the scene will still be targeted and single groups busted on a regular basis.
Catch me if you can.
[quote comment="257310"]I seriously think these ‘hackers’ are like 10 years old..
get a life you fucks. nobody gives a shit, go cry to mommy and suck your daddys dong.[/quote]
word!
Brandon leaved P2P before this info was posted.
Those scene kids sure need to get a life.
FTN told users not to seed packs leeched at that site to other places, or face being banned.
It was a fucknut rule, I’m sorta glad this happened.
“The Scene” should be happy bittorrent and other file sharing exists. When was the last time you saw a private FTP group go down in a raid? How about some DC++ users? You don’t, the jerkoffs in the cocaine…errr I mean movie/music industry only go after public stuff, like TPB, Torrentspy, Demonoid, Limwire, etc…
Having this public outlet takes attention away from them, and they should STFU and be happy their butts aren’t in jail. Cuz if they get caught and it is found out that THEY are the REAL people responsible for illegal sharing of copyrighted content on the net and not some young mother or teenage boy in Iowa or somethig, they gonna get a LOOONG time in prison. Any some new boyfriends.
Unfortunate my ass, Ersan deserved that shit.
“It’s not the fault of the admins, that the bittorrent protocol isn’t secure, wanne go underground?
instead of hacking you could just help in improving security i.e. by writing a superior tracker script or thinking about a ways to make the protocol anonymous … you d*mba*s”
you can not have anonymity without centralization, as packets need to know where to go. the closest thing to the idea of anonymity is http://www.torproject.org/ but you can read about the weaknesses there, also
p2p IS NOT and CAN NOT BE anonymous simply due to the reason that packets need a destination :) you could have a server/s that acts as a centralized router and the only one knows where the packet needs to go, but you’d also have to trust people running the server AND RIAA and others could easily track them down
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