BitTorrent Hosting Service Asked to Shut Down Trackers

The Canadian Recording Industry Association, also known as CRIA, decided to take attitude against the growing number of BitTorrent services in the country and requested Moxie Colo, a local BitTorrent hosting service, to shut down four websites. According to TorrentFreak, the anti-piracy group has also demanded the hosting service to disclose private details about the website owners as well as logs which could be then used by the police to find and identify the users who had accessed the BitTorrent services.

However, Moxie Colo is not going to provide the requested information and moreover, the company doesn't plan to shut down the mentioned BitTorrent services because "they don't infringe the local laws."

"We will not be following the request and will be fighting for the rights of our clients as to date laws in Canada protect them. We have looked into the matter and from what we understand these sites are not breaking any laws in Canada. If we do not comply they might bring legal action against Moxie Communications, as they believe without us these sites could not do what they do so therefore we are as bad as they are," Sean Corbin, CEO of Moxie Communications, said for the same source mentioned above.

Similar cases could be seen in various regions of the world but the most relevant is given by TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent service which was finally shut down after a long duel with anti-piracy groups. As part of the legal dispute, TorrentSpy was asked to provide private information about the service users but the administrators promptly refused it. In order to comply with the US laws, TorrentSpy took the decision to ban all the local users, allowing access only to non-US customers, who were not concerned by the country's laws and couldn't be sued.