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BTjunkie Closes Its Doors For Good, Out of Fear of Legal Action

by Eric Limer | 10:30 am, February 6th, 2012

Perhaps almost as shocking as the initial MegaUpload takedown is the wide-reaching effects it has had on the Internet landscape as a whole. It persuaded FileSonic and other cyberlockers to turn off file sharing of their own accord, and played a part in convincing The Pirate Bay to retreat to a .se domain. Now you can thank it for the closure of BTjunkie, which voluntarily shut down today, for fear of legal action to come.


A statement present at the site reads as follows:

This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we’ve decided to voluntarily shut down. We’ve been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it’s time to move on. It’s been an experience of a lifetime, we wish you all the best!

BTjunkie was never directly targeted by law enforcement, but the inevitability of the event was something that dogged the site’s owners and operators, BTjunkie’s founder told TorrentFreak. BTjunkie had recently been reported to the U.S. Trade Representative November of last year, had been blacklisted by both the MPAA and the RIAA, and was one of the piracy-related sites censored by Google, along with The Pirate Bay, RapidShare, and uTorrent.

Of course, it’s not like BTjunkie is the only torrent site out there, but it was one of the larger ones, so its closure is bound to make waves in the torrenting community, especially those who moved over to BTjunkie after the losses of TorrentSpy and Mininova. While the MPAA and the RIAA continue to say that rampant piracy is destroying their respective industries, it looks like they’re having some level of success. Who knows how far it’ll go, but they must be pleased to see many of their targets saving them the trouble.

(via TorrentFreak)

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  • Anonymous

    m’y classmate’s step-aunt makes $81 every hour on the internet. She has been fired for 9 months but last month her income was $8122 just working on the internet for a few hours. Here is the site..M`a`k`eC`a`s`h` 1`3。’C O M

  • Andrew Teece

    Got enough apostrophes? It almost looks like you’re a spambot

  • Svdba

    Who cares, BT junkie didnt have as much content as TPB

  • Jackbondnj16

    Technically they’re called grave accent marks, or backticks in some contexts.

  • Jackbondnj16

    Looks like the MegaUpload take down was a good move for America. At least there’s some heartening news in the world today.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Gledhill/100001482446350 Richard Gledhill

    “especially those who moved over to BTjunkie after the losses of TorrentSpy and Mininova”

    What loss of Mininova?

  • Brett26

    The internet won’t be worth having soon.

  • me

    i liked the comments section in btjunkie

  • SomeGuySomewhere

    it doesnt matter that others had more content, BTjunkie was one of the 5biggest and best and its shut down, whats to say others wont too? others will now get a lot more activity meaning they will be even more likely than they already are to get targeted by the FBI.

  • SomeGuySomewhere

    how is it good? MegaUpload did have illegal files but they weren’t an illegal website, whatever illegal files were up on there were uploaded by USERS, not the website owners themselves. if more websites are shut down just because its users put up some copyright files then facebook, youtube and places like photobucket could be shut down because they also have copyright files being uploaded to them all the time.

  • Cyberjay94

    I think this is just terrible. I loved BTJunkie, and now it’s gone. It was my favorite and most useful site when trying to find something obscure. Now I am forced to change sites. Thanks a lot U.S. government! Don’t care about how the PEOPLE feel, care about how much money you get from the big businesses. Now I use TPB but the singapore site. No government can touch it.

  • Blh

    TPB sucks Btjunkie always had the latest and the same as TPB but more, it’s loss is huge.

  • guest

    hey asshole ‘ I CARE ‘ and many others too , the pirate bay may be above than bt jubkie in some dumb list but it was the best torrent site and will remain


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