“Site Down F**ked over by some Jealous d**khead”

According to those present in IRC, the site owner, RikT, was awoken at 3am with a police raid. RikT was taken to the police station, and his desktop confiscated. He was then bailed until November 15th.

The buzz around the channel, including amongst some of the ops, was that someone jealous of how well the site had been doing in tracker racing, had ‘ratted’ to the police, causing the raid (but such claims should always be taken lightly). Scene-base carried, as the name implies, mostly scene releases, always a high-priority target for Copyright Enforcers.

However, all may not be as it seems. Today, RikT told FreakBits that it was nothing to do with the site at all, but was to do with an aquintance fingering him for counterfeit CDs. He has been bailed for another 28 days while investigations continue.

However there is no confirmation from any other sources. Enquires to the police have, as yet, gone un-answered, and the actions of Lokitorrent in 2005 has meant that any such investigation must contain outside confirmation. Some of the Scene-base admins also said they would start a new tracker, but no news on that. Either way, it brings into question again the percieved ‘safety’ of private trackers.

In the mean time, RikT has a message for the community, that he “dont want any publicity… …[and will] just let it all go and take it as a lesson learend[sic].”

Article from: FreakBits