SnowTigers , down for good ?

shipwreck said:
Of course they have blown that out of proportion to 'sell' their story to the media.
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the worst is that they didn't.
Snowtigers has always had a special position in "french piracy", it was the graal of french private trackers and the only torrentsite known by everyone (even non-bt users).
no forums, no torrent comments, no invites, no pm system, no userlist, no irc chan - just your profile and the browse page... and yet, a shitload of members have donated during years to get the VIP status and the right to upload (!)
i can't count how many times i saw french boards members bragging about being VIP at Snowtigers. accounts were sold more than 80 euros on ebay (and even more); you can also check how this site was popular by simply typing 'snowtigers' in google.fr (you'll find 10 pages of begging for snowtigers accounts).

in short, snowtigers has never been a private tracker that cared about sharing, their only goal was to make money and they did it very-well though.
 
The Torrentfreak article is based on the french article posted earlier in this thread. But the mere fact that the anti-piracy group can publically boast about military involvement just shows how successful the lobbying of those groups has been at recent times, and how much they have politics by the balls. It's disturbing, no matter how you look at it.
 
So if I understand you correctly, they actually did make hundreds of thousands of dollars? Then it's no surprise that they'd be targeted by the authorities sooner or later.
 
well, there is still Thorland.. the french tracker, ..........LOL, not sure how much longer. they are going to stick around, if the French Authorities, are so zealous on their crackdown on Piracy.
 
well, maybe not hundreds of thousands of dollars but they easily made dozens of thousands of dollars during all those years.
for example, they used to remove hundreds of accounts every month (and not only poor ratios) and open signups 30s-1min several times a week in order to get new potential donators (the fanatics refreshing the page until signups are open).
 
Did i read they'd be going after anyone who gave money to the site too i.e donors?
This is really fucked,did they just pass that anti piracy law the other day?
 
In whose house were the servers hosted?
I think tracker sysops need to start being serious about security,its never wise to host tracker servers in your home country,especially when an anti piracy law has been passed.
 
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