What.CD gebustet

Mit what.cd hat es die Tage einen der größten Musiktracker die Tage gerissen.

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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.

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What.cd, an invite-only music torrent tracker, has shut down yesterday, following a report in French media of police raids.

The website, founded in 2007 and with an estimated database of 3 million torrents, was more than a music piracy portal, but also a recommendation engine and a place where you could find some of the most unknown and underground records ever made, not available anywhere else.

Sometime yesterday, the site's operators took down their site, which was replaced by a blank screen (pictured above) with a message that read:

Report: Police seize 12 What.cd servers
According to French news site ZATAZ, "recent events" may refer to a series of raids carried out by C3N, the cyber-crime unit of the French Gendarmerie.

The raids are the result of a two-year investigation by authorities at the behest of French music industry rights group SACEM.

It is said that French police confiscated twelve What.cd servers hosted by French ISP OVH in three cities across France: Lille, Free, and Gravelines.

No What.cd employee was arrested in the raids. What.cd's leadership is based in the UK.

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Quelle: What.cd Private Music Torrent Tracker Has Shut Down

Frontend vom Seedbox-Provider FeralHosting hats auch getroffen, Slots sind aber weiter verfügbar.
Nur beim Wiedereinspielen des Backups haben sie leider ihre Datenbank gekillt, ups.

https://status.feral.io/
https://twitter.com/feralstatus

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tl;dr Status - Feral Hosting is down, database lost, slots are up and will remain up. We're moving to the honour system for paying bills. ETA 25th November...

Our network is also run and owned solely by us and has links that spread across Europe. The exception to this set up was our front-end server Status - Feral Hosting which was hosted by OVH..This was done to use their anti distributed denial of service (DDoS) facilities and is our only server with OVH.

On Wednesday 16th 2016 at 09:16 UTC our front-end server was taken down by OVH. After contacting support they said it was an action instigated by their legal department. They have not been given any further information and the legal department have not contacted me directly.

Promptly I began the process of restoring from a back up and moving to another server, something that has been completed many times before. During this restoration process back ups for our site database were accidentally deleted. At this point the database is presumed to be lost.

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Scheinbar ist OVH durch den Bust bisschen munter geworden und verfällt in blinden Aktionimus :-) War ja eine zeitlang richtig beliebt der Hoster auch über Kimsufi und Soyoustart und wie sie nicht alle heisen die Reseller.
Schauen wir mal was noch so alles auf den Kopf bekommt.

GazelleGames, deli.sh und HDArea haben ebenfalls (freiwllig) geschlossen aufgrund der Ereignisse.