Torrent Search Engine BTJunkie Voluntarily Shuts Down

BitTorrent indexing engine BTJunkie has decided to shut its doors after 7 years of service.

Founded in 2005, BTJunkie was one of the most popular torrent indexing engines on the web.

The decision to shut down the site comes shortly after founder and six employees of file hosting service Megaupload were arrested on charges of piracy and money laundering. If found guilty, the accused are looking at a maximum 20 years prison sentence.

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I Know What You Downloaded on BitTorrent….

[ Torrent Freak ] 10 Dec

Most people know that BitTorrent is far from anonymous, but seeing all your recent downloads listed on a public website is still quite a revelation. This is exactly what Youhavedownloaded does. The developers of the site want to make people aware of the public nature of BitTorrent, and are currently working on a more anonymous version of the leading file-sharing technology.

YouHaveDownloaded is a new Russian-based service that claims to track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. However, they go a step further than just collecting IP-addresses and file-names by exposing all the harvested information to the public on their website.

Read full report for more revealing details.

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