London police takes down Blackcat-Games

jalaneme · Oct 20, 2016

Harsky said:
Blackcat Games were SUPER strict when it comes to maintaining seeding ratio. I remember getting games a day after they were released but couldn't maintain the upload ratio due to crappy upload speed so I lost my account a week later.

Still surprised they're around until this.

Hence my reply good riddance to them seeding back the games i download was a nightmare, i had a 1mbit download and 750k upload back then it took so long to upload and i couldn't use my computer, they eventually banned me but i didn't care tbh i used demonoid for a while and found other alternatives.

Siriu64 said:
Oh, wow. I hadn't thought of that site in ages. I remember it being one of the only reliable places for GameCube games, back in the day.

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery.

And wii games, used to use them a lot back when modchips were a thing.

Joe88 said:
I was a member there well over 5 years ago and I used torrent seed cheat programs to bypass the S:L ratio since my internet was pretty shit back than, it would takes weeks to reseed a 360 game fully
it was pretty good but eventually my account got deactivated for inactivity since I didnt download anything for 1 month, I have just been using public sites ever since without issues

Haha! I thought i was the only one using those seed programs XD it was the reason i got banned

Draggy · Oct 20, 2016

I'm Draggy from blackcats, was on the site almost from the very beginning, so shocked to see these news, I feel so sorry for stoi, he really doesn't deserve such severe punishment for being gaming enthusiast =/

Is there any way to be invited to gazelle games now?

FAST6191 · Oct 20, 2016

I don't think personally it is going to trouble me, mainly as I don't do torrents, but I can see how it might trouble others. I don't know if we will see any kind of architecture breakdown as I am slightly curious as to the security setup here or if it is was running fairly openly.

Issac said:
City of London PD*
Considering how weird other things in City of London is, I bet their police department is slow too

That probably warrants expansion as the City of London (a small section in the middle of London that is a rather unique case in the UK at this point) is different to greater London which is covered by the metropolitan police aka the met, and probably the usual one you would hear about as they tend to be the ones involved in all the jackbooted fun since Northern Ireland became a tad more peaceful.
Might as well do it in video form

I am sort of surprised pipcu did this, but then again they do have a bit of a history of it https://torrentfreak.com/pipcu-raids-pirate-tv-streaming-operation-three-arrested-160811/ and https://torrentfreak.com/?s=pipcu for other stuff so I guess if you find a police force you can work with...
With that said the enforcement of boring stuff like this is a farce in most of the other police forces and special interest police units in the UK and customs, the one I see doing a lot of stuff like this in other countries, has rather bigger problems so eh.

megatron_lives · Oct 20, 2016

I mentioned this to my wife and she is getting nervous about my account. We're in the UK and we don't use a VPN. Does anyone have any advise regarding what trouble we could be in with the city of London having our data?

I assume they are only interested in shutting the site down and making the owners responsible rather than as valatros says to seek out all users.

Issac · Oct 20, 2016

FAST6191 said:
That probably warrants expansion as the City of London (a small section in the middle of London ... snipsnip

Yeah, I meant those Court of Aldermen and everything surrounding becoming the the Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of The City of London... Considering how intricate that is, I was joking about how the police work would also be slow.

retrofan_k · Oct 20, 2016

megatron_lives said:
I mentioned this to my wife and she is getting nervous about my account. We're in the UK and we don't use a VPN. Does anyone have any advise regarding what trouble we could be in with the city of London having our data?

I assume they are only interested in shutting the site down and making the owners responsible rather than as valatros says to seek out all users.

Top seeders and major contributors have been known to be investigated in past raids on other sites.

If you wanna be safer, buy a premium VPN and try to be anonymous as possible, if you want to continue to torrent. Stay clear of open trackers as that is a open door to the law. It's not the same anymore and RIP old Internet.

ceelo · Oct 20, 2016

omg Ive been a member of BCG since around 2006. It had the most popular down to the most obscure games for any system. It literally is the best gaming place I know. and it was one of the more secretive ones too.. They tried a lot of stuff like fake pages and in a search bar or something you type in a special word your account is assigned that would unlock the actual page. They stopped doing that a while ago, and just optioned for a CAPTCHA :\. To know the place shut down that I visit every few days for eight years is such a horrible feeling. not just the torrents but the community it had. The people I helped, the torrents I upped, the ones Ive taken. Ugh.... This sucks so hard. harder than when KAT went down, and that was public.

megatron_lives · Oct 20, 2016

Thanks retrofan_k, that's good to know.

I feel a little better if I can at least reassure my wife with this! We did have about 20 items seeding over the past few days at least, but I won't say I was a major contributor!

Thanks again

I'll certainly miss Blackcats - almost 10 years I was a member :-(

mgrev · Oct 20, 2016

Tomato Hentai said:
To be 100% honest, I've actually never heard of Blackcat Games. I get my vidya torrents from a private torrent site.

same.

Naderino · Oct 20, 2016

Tomato Hentai said:
What did you get banned for, if you don't mind my asking?

They ceased my account for inactivity, which I can get. Then I created a new account and reached out to a mod to see they could reactivate my old one, then he permabanned me for creating a dupe lol. I was a donor on top of that

Joom · Oct 20, 2016

Why are people complaining about seeding? If you can't do it don't use a private tracker. Honestly, you shouldn't even use one without a seedbox. I mean seriously, you shouldn't even be on the site to begin with if seeding is a problem. Stick to public trackers.

OT: Shit. Though BCG has gone down before and I suspect it will be back. Though they might go the same route as Underground Gamer and affiliates and just shut down forever, which sucks because it's hard to come by niche trackers like this that still maintain retro scene releases.

driverdis · Oct 20, 2016

So, they ceased the domain, not the servers. People who downloaded stuff should be fine unless they get the server.

happydance · Oct 22, 2016

damn... been a member there as lang as I can remember, there's a lot of hard to find content there.

Subtle Demise · Oct 22, 2016

Harsky said:
Blackcat Games were SUPER strict when it comes to maintaining seeding ratio. I remember getting games a day after they were released but couldn't maintain the upload ratio due to crappy upload speed so I lost my account a week later.

Still surprised they're around until this.

Seedpoints?

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Joom said:
Why are people complaining about seeding? If you can't do it don't use a private tracker. Honestly, you shouldn't even use one without a seedbox. I mean seriously, you shouldn't even be on the site to begin with if seeding is a problem. Stick to public trackers.

OT: Shit. Though BCG has gone down before and I suspect it will be back. Though they might go the same route as Underground Gamer and affiliates and just shut down forever, which sucks because it's hard to come by niche trackers like this that still maintain retro scene releases.

A lot of those sites have come back under different names.

TeamScriptKiddies · Oct 23, 2016

megatron_lives said:
Thanks retrofan_k, that's good to know.

I feel a little better if I can at least reassure my wife with this! We did have about 20 items seeding over the past few days at least, but I won't say I was a major contributor!

Thanks again

I'll certainly miss Blackcats - almost 10 years I was a member :-(

If you've been been a member for 10 years and yet to have any legal woes, you probably won't. If they wanted you, they would've snatched up your IP long ago in the swarm (most lekely an anti-piracy org not law enforcement) and wouldve pursued you already. As some have suggested, they might pursue sime of the top contributors, as well as staff, but by the sounds of it, you dont fall into either category. Theyre main goal was to take the site offline...

pchelata · Oct 30, 2016

So Blackcats Games is dead apparently. Where do I go for games now? It was my last dependable site

Subtle Demise · Nov 1, 2016

So the tracker still seems to be up. My torrents are still seeding with no errors.

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Subtle Demise said:
So the tracker still seems to be up. My torrents are still seeding with no errors.

Oops, nvvm, it's down.

retrofan_k · Nov 2, 2016

Tbh, I wouldn't seed if the trackers are still up unless you are using a good VPN and other means to remain anonymously.

TeamScriptKiddies · Nov 3, 2016

retrofan_k said:
Tbh, I wouldn't seed if the trackers are still up unless you are using a good VPN and other means to remain anonymously.

If you got the money to spend, you could always pay to rent a seedbox (using BTC) so you don't have to worry about seeding yourself

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