kinda curious. I don't bother with them unless looking for VERY old archival footage as only youtube has anything comparable, and even then. just kinda curious.
Okey. Rolling in here!
First off: Sunflower, torrent sites are pretty much kaput now, IMO. They were incredible back in like, 05, but then the content providers went streaming/download, so if you're torrenting at this rate, you just didn't want to buy it or it's too hard to find.
Anyways, silly hacker/torrent kiddie history incoming
So there's one torrent site...I'll call it X (you can search for them on your own if you like, it's not hard to find with the details I'm giving). They've been around ages. Standard torrent site, gets most everything. Dealt with them before for some content stuff/DMCA requests, did that whole dance.
Apparently this weekend they've been getting hit by DDOS requests; getting flooded off service. So it's cost them a ton of money server wise (they take donations, but it's usually not enough), and they keep getting hit by it.
Long story short, they figure out it's this old group of rippers, I'll call em R. R used to basically rip -EVERYTHING-. Then they started to watermark everything. Then they started to pull back from torrent sites, then they started to want to be paid for the content they ripped, so they started their own site and tried that.
Yeah.
Basically these two groups started bickering back and forth, as R wanted X to pay them to upload on their site/provide links, I'm not sure. Basically wanted money for content. X said no, R starts doing script kiddie shit.
X counters by doxing/revealing all of R's people and just tweeting them to people at WWE and UFC, full stop. We're talking tweets to Dana here. It's just absurd.
tldr; rippers want to be paid for the content they stole and shared, torrent site doesn't want to, gets flooded for it, torrent site responds by revealing all info to content owners.
That's just the basics. I got tuned into this today when someone mentioned it on Twitter, so I got bored and dug a bit. Hot goddamn.
Lesson here? TORRENT SITES AREN'T SAFE AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH