http://torrentfreak.com/scenetorrents-bittorrent-tracker-shuts-down-091128/ SceneTorrents (ScT) has been a respected and well-connected private BitTorrent tracker for more than four years. An invite for the tracker was hard to find, but the lucky few that did get in had little to complain about, until today that is. A few hours ago ScT put up a sad and unexpected announcement for its 20,000 members, as the site's operators have decided to close the site for good tomorrow. Thus far the staff refuses to comment on the reason for the shutdown, which has resulted in widespread rumors among the site's users. ScT announces that it will close the site tomorrow at 10PM GMT. Some rumors say that the end of ScT may be related to the raid of a topsite in The Netherlands earlier this week. According to the Dutch news site Tweakers, the 『ranked' topsite LOOP had its servers raided in Amsterdam, where 40 terabytes of data was stored. LOOP was (supposedly) one of SceneTorrent's main content provider according to insiders. According to other rumors, the shutdown could be a planned operation instead of a response to the raided topsite. In the last weeks the site has encouraged its members to donate, offering double rewards for those who pay up, allegedly raking in as much as $10,000. Thus far both rumors remain unconfirmed, and the same is true for an eBay auction of the site that went up a few hours ago. Since the staff of the site is not talking, it will probably remain unknown why the site will close its doors now, or what their underlying motivation is. Update: FSF published a short chat with ScT owner 『Feeling' who confirmed that the shutdown is not a hoax. ==================================== SCT 是影劇類最有名的前幾個 PT 站 在開站四年後走向關機的命運..., 大概看了下國外的報導, 目前有兩種說法一種是某個叫 LOOP 荷蘭的 TopSite 被抄了, 總共查獲 40TB 左右的資源, 然後該站剛好是 SCT 資源的主要提供者, 怕被波及所以關門 另一個說法是站長有計劃的卷款潛逃帶走了 10000 美金左右 最近這幾個月許多 BT 的大站都不大好過, TPB 被告上法院敗訴, Demonid 小惡魔硬碟掛了, MiniNova 自宮刪除有版權問題的種子, SCT RIP --

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