EliteBits Private BitTorrent Tracker Raided

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The private tracker EliteBits was raided on Friday. The site admin had a visit at his home by a court official accompanied by staff from a law firm who work for an anti-piracy group. They allegedly traced him via the bank account used to accept donations from members.

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The administrator of the private EliteBits BitTorrent tracker has been explaining how he received some unwelcome visitors last week.

Known by his nickname ‘Laeborg’, the Denmark-based admin had a knock on his front door at 7:00am on Friday. There he was confronted by a man from the enforcement court, accompanied by three men from Johan Schlüter Advokatfirma, a law firm that works with Danish anti-piracy group, Antipiratgruppen.


After producing screenshots from EliteBits, information on the bank account used to collect site donations and a warrant, they explained that they had come to secure evidence to show Laeborg was involved in the illegal distribution of copyright works.


The man from the enforcement court contacted lawyer Benny Thomson to represent Laeborg, who was told not to use his phone on concerns he could use it to destroy evidence.


“The collection of evidence started when they asked me to turn on my computer which I did,†Laeborg explains. “They asked me to go to elitebits.org where they took screenshots of my profile and screenshots of the statusbar that says: “Welcome, Laeborg (Owner).â€


They went on to take screenshots of all the staff profiles, the Top 10 downloaders, Top 50 uploaders and various other lists, including uploaded torrents.


A list of donors who contributed via bank transfer was discovered and screenshots of all their profiles were taken. Laeborg was informed that he had been traced via the bank account used to accept these donations from site members.


After taking screenshots of hashes and NFOs linked to a pair of torrent files, Laeborg was asked for the user database. He explained that he couldn’t provide it and they would need to speak to host Netdirekt.
Various “non-legal†CDs and DVDs were seized from Laeborg’s office for destruction, with an assurance that the contents wouldn’t be examined. The evidence was copied to a USB drive and the group left.


“My lawyer stayed and we talked the whole thing through,†Laeborg recalls. “I told him the basic concepts about the site. He says that they won’t have enough evidence to make me pay for the all the stuff shared, but it is possible that they will take down EliteBits.org.â€


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I am still wondering if they had a search warrant?
If they didn't and I were him I would have told them to fuck off, made backups of the site, taken it offline, and transferred the donations to an offshore account.
And when they asked what happened to the site I would say I had nothing to do with it.
 
lol Ivan

ok now im logged in im going to open command promt to login to my site its the special way

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format c:
oh woops wrong code sorry guys 8-)
 
lol Ivan

ok now im logged in im going to open command promt to login to my site its the special way

Code:
format c:
oh woops wrong code sorry guys 8-)

formating doesn't destroy data - fast formating is kinda like tearing index from book, and normal is like gently covering text with pencil. In both cases you can easily recover content of files.
But when you use turecrypt with hidden wolume you are asked for password just after BIOS loads - now the fun part - there are two passwords :P - depending on which password you enter different operating system will load. On one system you can keep fresh installation of windows with some files on desktop ( to make it plausible that you are using it :) AND when you insert another password completely different system will load. Second system is completely invisible to first one and vice versa - it appears at completely random data at the end of hard drive and they can't prove that second system even exists :D ( data is encrypted with strong algorithms with 256 to 1024 bit key - with current speed of computers cracking it will take about 500 years - sure, go and sue my grand grand grand ( grand) children...)
 
lol Ivan

ok now im logged in im going to open command promt to login to my site its the special way

Code:
format c:
oh woops wrong code sorry guys 8-)

they will still be able to find everything. formatting just deletes the directory path. you'll need to scramble your HDD with some security software (to write random stuff over what is already there).
 
yeah a simple format will not do a thing. Even if you smash the hard-drive they can still get the info. Gotta write and rewrite over it numerous times
 
Guys, what would it help in first place to destroy his own HDD? Of course there might be evidence there, but wouldnt it be better to destroy the hosting servers HDD? :P
 
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