James Delahunty
6 Feb 2007 8:15
A group of BitTorrent trackers in the Tomsk region in Russia have been taken offline, with no official explanation yet for the action. Obviously it has been suggested that the cybercrime police (also known as Department K) could have shut down the sites but some others are pointing the finger of blame at the Tomsk's local ISP instead.
It could be possible that the ISP wanted to ease the heavy bandwidth usage with BitTorrent use. The Russian police has denied any involvement in the action. Vadim Andrianov, an admin from one of the BitTorrent trackers, believes that this could have been part of a new anti-piracy campaign and is still waiting on an official response from the ISP.
He is not, however, afraid of any legal problems since his site only offered open source software. If this was an attempt to cut excessive bandwidth usage, then it was effective, with a reported 80% drop in P2P traffic.
Source:
TorrentFreak