Leecherslair is no more
The
Malaysian government has ordered webhosting provider Shinjiru to close down
BitTorrent site LeechersLair.com.
The execution order came from the catch-titled Content, Consumer and Network Security Division of the Malaysian
Communications and Multimedia Commission.
LeechersLair was a well-established
tracker which was launched in 2006. It had more than 18,000 members and was
hosted in Malaysia. The Commission order the closure claiming that the site
was in breach of Section 41 of the Copyright Act 1987.
Periodically the
Malaysian government has moved against torrent sites hosted by Shinjiru but most
of them returned elsewhere. However what is alarming this time is that the
government has installed a hard-drive on the Shinjiru server.
