Most P2P torrent-tracker sites must worry about being shutdown by the legal forces such as the FBI and copyright protection groups like MPAA. In addition to this, the P2P torrent trackers are killed by warez scene pirates calling themselves CELLKiLL.
Two BitTorrent Tracker websites, SuperTorrents and FeedThe.Net (FTN) have been hacked by a small group of semi-anonymous warez-wizards, working in what is often referred to as the 'scene.' A notification of the wrath unleashed upon the admin of the tracker SuperTorrent has been circulating around the dark corners of the Internet:
"Now this is the story all about how Ersan’s life got flipped turned upside down and I’d like to take a minute and just sit right there and tell you how Ersan became the prince of a town called bel air. This weeks source of lulz is provided free of charge via a site called supertorrents.org and the nicest Administrator you’ve ever met, Ersan."
With a little bit of work, angry pirates from 'the scene' hacked into many of "Ersan's" online accounts: including a PayPal account, and some email accounts. The scene pirate guys posted "Ersan's " real name, address, age, and other personal information onto some websites. They all so deleted a bunch of his online accounts, and donated the balance of SuperTorrent's donations account -- a grand total of about $2000 USD -- to a charity that belongs to a religious group that Ersan allegedly made inappropriate comments about. "Maximum lulz were achieved," reportedly wrote on of the people involved in the hacking.
Why are these particular pirates angry with P2P sites? It seems that part of it is that hackers believe that the administrators of P2P trackers are making money and taking credit for files that wouldn't be there in the first place if it were not for 'the scene.' Here's another excerpt from the scene guys that hacked FTN: "His Torrent site steals thousands after thousands of releases from the scene, and then he has the nerve to go and say to other P2P’s STOP STEALING RELEASES FROM US?!??!? ILL BAN YO ASS! But wait, how is this even possible??"
Another part of the disgruntlement seems to be that all the attention P2P sites have been getting from the authorities is infringing on the security of the 'scene', which does not benefit from being under the spotlight.
