After the impacting news of the FBI and ICE raid on
Elite Torrents some BitTorrent sites might not have the nerve to remain active. Slick
reports that bit-ance.net—a large BitTorrent
indexing site with over 24,000 registered users—has decided to shut down voluntarily. Their home page now
reads: "Thanks for being a part of bit-ance.net, your data has disapeared and
so have we …" and has a link to an IRC channel #bit-ance.
We logged into the channel and all we could get (other than boring chat between kids) was: "In the interests of
protecting you, yes, you—we've concluded that the best course of action will be to suspend Bit-Ance.net indefinetely.
We continue to value your membership; thank you."
These were their stats as of last week:
Registered users
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24,375
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Torrents
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297
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Peers
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2,319
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Seeders
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1,729
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Leechers
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590
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Leechers/Seeders
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0.34
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