Piratebay springs to mind. Having trouble finding sources for other outcomes. Oink admins got tried and got off, what.CD staff managed to dissapear into the ether.
TPB is still around, only magnet links are around. They were hosting torrent files which is basically a list of trackers. That’s what they had to drop, in order to continue functioning. And their DNS is still banned like from almost every westernized country.
Regardless of technicalities, they were #1 biggest player. (Today they are like #3 or #5?) What I mean to say, is that they got busted mainly because of this. To make an example.
Piratebay springs to mind. Having trouble finding sources for other outcomes. Oink admins got tried and got off, what.CD staff managed to dissapear into the ether.
That was a bit more than just a tracker backend
TPB is still around, only magnet links are around. They were hosting torrent files which is basically a list of trackers. That’s what they had to drop, in order to continue functioning. And their DNS is still banned like from almost every westernized country.
Regardless of technicalities, they were #1 biggest player. (Today they are like #3 or #5?) What I mean to say, is that they got busted mainly because of this. To make an example.