Cheggit.net shuts down
 

From: http://takedownpiracy.com/2012/01/an...ites-the-dust/

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:2 cents:

Never heard of Cheggit.

So it looks like they took down a major facilitator, and you could make the case that Cheggit served as a quasi-topsite since it's userbase were often posting 0day and/or exclusive content not available on other piracy sites.

Either way...it's good freaking news.

that's a decent sized dent http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cheggit.net

GFY needs a "like" button :)

Cheggit had 1,270,000 members even though they had closed registration the majority of the time.

more will pop up

Funniest comment from their forum announcement thread:

"This is my 9/11"

lolz

me too!.

Good riddance, and a great job, thank you Nate :thumbsup Thanks Eric too and all the rest of you guys who put pressure on that darn thing which I hated since day one.

Btw, we sent a ton of DMCAs there recently too and I was surprised at just how easy those removals have become (which is not typical for torrent sites as we all know) since they hired DMCAnotice.com - wondered what will happen when most of their torrents will be taken down. Today we all know the answer :winkwink:

Unfortunately there's still about a dozen of adult torrent sites to go, where most of the cheggit refugees can (and will) migrate to. They're not nearly as good as cheggit was, but they'll pass now since there are no better alternatives anyway.

Especially this one seems to be gaining big time in popularity:

http://www.bootytape.com/

And they're US based, guess it's time to reload our guns and fire a barrage of DMCAs at them.

BootyTape is getting a bump in traffic because a number of connected cyberlocker linking blogs shut down after the Mega raids and they are now redirecting to BootyTape.

BootyTape currently subsists off of studios like Black Ice that can't seem to be bothered in policing their content so they help populate piracy sites. If people like Black Ice, Black Market, heatwave, and West Coast would lift a finger to be part of the solution, sites like BootyTape would have shit left but amateur stuff.

BT is on the radar, if Cheggit users flock over there, the appropriate people will be waiting for them.

You're right, checked it out, seems to be all black stuff for now. At least until cheggit.net refugees will start uploading something different, if they're really flocking there which I doubt now.

What do you think will be the new home for the majority of exodus?

Lot of private sites but the masses won't be able to get into them.

We're already in the process of working to sweep the new Empornium they've started up.

I doubt english speaking downloaders will want to mess with pornolab or places like pussytorrents

One more kidney punch.