BTJunkie torrent indexer ends after 7 years
BTjunkie, one of the largest BitTorrent indexes on the Internet, has decided to shut down voluntarily today. A combination of legal actions against fellow file-sharing sites and time-consuming projects have led to the drastic decision that takes out one the main players in the BitTorrent landscape. Founded in June 2005, BTjunkie has been among the top BitTorrent sites for more than half a decade. The site was never involved in any legal action, and to keep it this way the site’s operators decided to shut the site down for good today. The following message was posted on the BTjunkie homepage a few minutes ago:
“This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!” BTjunkie’s founder said that the legal actions against other file-sharing sites such as MegaUpload and The Pirate Bay played an important role in making the difficult decision. Witnessing all the trouble colleagues got into was cause for a lot of worry and stress, and those will now belong to the past.
That said, BTjunkie’s owner still thinks there might be a future for other BitTorrent sites. “I really do hope so, the war is far from over for sure,” admin says. While BTjunkie was never targeted directly by copyright holders, the site was reported to the US Trade Representative (USTR) November last year. Both the RIAA and MPAA listed the torrent index as a ‘rogue’ site that facilitated mass copyright infringement. BTjunkie is also one of the search terms censored by Google because it’s piracy related, alongside The Pirate Bay, RapidShare, uTorrent and others.
Torrent downloads are becoming increasingly popular after recent events and closure of Megaupload and many other filehosts. If you are looking for alternatives, we can recommend NewTorrents.info which offers verified scene torrents or other popular sites like PirateBay, ExtraTorrent, KickassTorrent or Demonoid.
Source: Torrentfreak
Comments(28)
so sad! btjunkie was great. trackerless torrents and magnet links are where it’s at. now if someone could make a distributed search engine?
Dum dum dum… Another one bites the dust..
How long will it be before release log goes running scared and shuts down ?
Here is a helpful tidbit for all those who seem to be unaware … when uploading do NOT name it what it is. For example if you want to upload Nero, why on earth you would broadcast it as such and create all this heat on yourselves and for a site has been having me scratch my head for years. I would name it N11.rar instead of Nero Platinum V.11 Fully Cracked by hwf
It is as if you are waving a white flag and screaming \pick me, pick me .. I’m a heatscore looking for attention, I have just stolen this link from another site and now I want you to think I am important on release log\
Never has made a lot of sense.
Censored by google? does that really happen? i searched all the terms listed and they all gave me awnsers. what do you mean with that?
Jaeger you have no clue what you are talking about. MU used Hash checks on files.
Kewl story though bro, glad you are so smart as to be able to rename a file we all know how hard that is, and none of these guys running scene groups know how to do it. Tutorial perhaps in order? I think so!
Like why do people like that even comment… like changing a name of a file changes anything. The file is still pirated.
Just for laughs how do you plan on finding nero 11 on an indexing site if it’s name n11. That could be literally a billion different things. And if it’s named Nero on an indexing site then how does your little rant make sense.
I don’t get why they can’t just colonize the moon, I mean it’s as simple as building a house up there… lols
@Cheddar, I actually agree with Jaegar, forgive me if I’m wrong but if you are posting links for Nero on an RLS topic, and you name them “N11.part1.rar”, I am sure that the people on that topic know what files are inside. I think he was commenting more on sites like this, then random file indexing. Personally I have never used a site just searching for the name of the download file, people could name them anything! I know you said MU used Hash Checks on files, but if yours were zipped, or say zipped twice like most files are, I’m pretty sure my file “N11.School.Project” isn’t going to get flagged
On a side note, two sad days now, first after re-upping my filesonic subscription they go ahead and cancel their services, and last week after moving to turbobit because most posts seemed to have links for that, they are no longer servicing the US!!!! At least paypal refunded both purchases, but sucks. I am holding out a little bit until I see links for one prevalent file sharing site. Its hit or miss at the moment.
In a society out of any human being control, where stupidity and slavery become rules mandatory to follow… I drop my last tear for tomorrow… Soon even your thought will be under censorship, and your dreams illegal. GOOD BYE FREEDOM, MEET YOU IN THE AFTERLIFE… MAYBE.
@ 3. Jaegar Croft
You sir could not know less about how this works if you tried… do you even know what a Hash check is? … try ‘digital fingerprint’ – renaming file is completely and utterly pointless (luckly most people with semblance of knowledge on this topic are aware of this fact) but thanks for your “helpful tidbit” … we are all now dumber thanks to you.
So what, good riddance. Take every other public site with you.
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all hope is on guys working on the next gen,of free internet,few weeks ago they did that Satellite test that worked using a balloon.
@12 i heard about that it had a legoman inside it right ?
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I thought it was a joke, but they actually shutting the internet down one site at a time….
What intensive do we have to purchase new internet connections? Facebook status updates?
I wonder how are the things back in usenet land…
Newgroups. Enough said.
I think in the long run they’re shooting they’re own. Now it was possible to grab a movie or cd, if i liked it,i bought it. it’s the new way of xperiencing stuff, in the old days i stood for hours in a record shop, now i download : what’s good i buy what’s crap i delete. it opened my eyes to whole new genres, new kinds of music. And still, if a band want’s to make money they’ve got to work (play) times where creating one song gives you loads of money through sales are over. Play live, but if none knows the bands none will show up also. you can’t shut up the world, like most say in a few weeks time everything will be up and running again. How many times did they tried this ? problems arise when money is involved, if you get paid for uploading stuff that’s wrong. sharing is sharing not buying. we’ll see how it goes
Yea its true another group is trying launch rockets too,2 weeks back they almost got it into orbit in fact,they say when they do figure it out it will be so cheap they will be able to launch countless satallites into orbit ,they there goal is. Internet that is free,that no goverment or music company can censor
Really, really sad to see BTjunkie go – no lie, I’ve downloaded A WHOLE LOT OF PORN with the help of those guys!
That being said, one weird statement from this article must be address: if, but ‘censored’ the writers that the Google give direct access to the listed websites mentioned on that paragraph, but yeah, I guess they are censored! I have zero problem googling Pirate Bay, uTorrent or even BTjunkie and getting results.
So, Martin… what are you talking about?
Fer me the most interesting part of this is watching governments sacrifice some of their best intelligence gathering tools for the sake of helping some hollywood mega-corp make a couple more bucks. As was pointed out upthread, those ‘nations’ who have been arm twisted by amerikan ‘diplomats’ into laws that downloading is an arrestable offence, have already burned one part of echelon 2.0 .
Showing off the echelon ability to catch downloaders of Katy Perry’s latest hit by sniffing the crc hash of the digital file through any port or protocol.
So we move to VPN. The sniffers will start with teh easy ones – peeps incorrectly using l2tp and pptp so they’ll ‘man in the middle’ them. That will discourage some from vpn.
Others will go for one of the open vpn apps that runs seamlessing down an encrypted tunnel to a sever on the other side of the planet, evey IP address, file name, parity check, crc hash encrypted; before it hooks up to the fileshare site, news server or whatever.
That is when it will get real interesting. The tunnels r generally encrypted using a secure socket layer encryption which peeps have always been told is 100% secure, unable to be cracked by anyone.
Otherwise no one would put the visa card numbers out there if it weren’t.
But remember when the clipper chip fuss died down and the US govt agreed to not require a hardware backdoor in every computer?
That was in return for software companies undertaking to provide a way in to any encryption systems made from then on. Phil Zimmerman quit pgp because he could no longer guarantee the 100% security of the product he invented.
Does anyone seriously imagine the amerikan spies don’t have a way in to ssl secured communications between mad mullahs and suicide bombers?
Of course they do and if everyone who downloads warez uses ssl you can be sure the corporates will get politicians to make the ‘security services’ give mafiaa the keys to that backdoor.
Then the pols will keep their families flying on the private airfleets of corporate amerika. Everyone else can take their chances, cause warners, disney or M$ bein happy is much more important that 100′s of plane loads of ordinary humans.
Sad news!!!!
@oioioi – So it’s amerikas fault that your nations politicians are attacking your internet rights? If your upset with your gov’ts decisions then take it up with them.
As an amerikan I don’t like free trade anymore than the next guy, but I don’t blame China. In fact, I blame myself and my neighbor for allowing it. If we are truly free then we must accept part of the responsibility. We are not powerless. Playing the role of the victim is cowardly and blaming the other guy is wrong and dangerous.
On a technical note, I hope to see some kind of distributed encryption like Bitcoin. I don’t think it’s out of our reach and I’d hope people much smarter than me are already working on it.
Oh well, another favourite link to delete. It’s always a shame to see a site like this go (suprnova and mininova, anybody?), but as with most things p2p-related, there’s always an alternative.
Later, BTJunkie. Thanks for all the torrents.
@sacked show me where I said it was amerika’s fault that other country’s enacted crazy net laws.
What I said was that amerikan diplomats arm twisted politicians around the planet into passing these laws. It is correct that voters in other countries ‘allowed’ this to happem but stating the facts isn’t playing the victim.
If it were them the original slave owning greedheads who kicked off the amerikan ‘revolution’ wouldn’t have had a leg to stand on.
So many allege4dly sovereign states are controlled by amerijan laws without having any means to change those laws. This is the original ‘taxation without representatioon’ which got those slavers so anngry back in seventeen seventy whenever.
Try and resist those laws or even ignore them because they aren’t illegal in the nation you live in and you’ll end up like Kim Dotcom of Mega Upload looking into the barrel of an amerikan gun held to yer head by a proxy ‘police’.
Voting cannot fix this cause when a country tries to withdraw from these one-sided deals they are decalred part of the axis of evil or terrorist.
Mugabe is far from the worst tyrant in africa but he cops alla the bad press because after initially agreein withot signing up to a ‘free trade’ draft agreement he realised he would be signing his nation’s sovereignty .
So he pulled out and next thing you know the money england had agreed to pay Zimbabwe for the prime agricultural land englanders seized from the indigenous inhabitants stopped being paid.
Zimbabwe wastes a couple of years ‘negotiating’ this Bush poodle Tony Bliar; then grabs the land to give back to the traditional owners. Next thing western media are flooding the papers n TV shows with stories about ‘poor white farmers’ being discriminated against by Mugabe.
All it takes is a couple of bad outcomes for politicians and all the other pols around the planet, toe the line.
The bloke who replaced Nicholai Ceacescu in Romania is prolly more oppresive than his late predecessor, but no one says anything because unlike Ceacescu he didn’t tell the IMF to stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Wake up! amerika is a war machine that exists solely for the purpose of bullying anyone or thing that has something the peeps who control the amerikan political elite desire.
Pointing that out isn’t ‘playing the victim’ it is step 1 of the education process required prior to giving amerikan capitalism the heave-ho outta our countries.
You amerikans can do what you want which I’m guessing will be to get fatter and more ignorant.
last man standing…
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@ 24. 0101010101:
Well said.
http://www.lazypirate.net/ , Better than BTJunkie. You can use through a anonymizer if need to. It’s comparable to TorrentZ.eu the only flaw is it’s not SSL like TZ.eu so anonymizer recommended.
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