Finally The true story of what happened to SCT

In 2009 the very popular Private torrent tracker SceneTorrents was closed down, much to the amazement and for some anger of its thousands of members. The easiest way to get invites for SCT was to donate, the minimum donation to receive invites was 20 euro, Though SCT had just had a double privileges donation drive. Many member had just donated, others had donated for months. The sudden announcement that SCT was closed was for most unexpected.

This week The ex owner of SCT "feeling" has spoken to torrentfreak and finally shed a little light on the shock closure of SCT.

On 27th November 2009 the police along with officers from FACT "Federation Against Copyright Theft" turn up apparently unnanounced to Feeling house.

Feeling’ told TorrentFreak. " the police turn up at my door at 6am – two detectives, a few police and a Proceeds of Crime officer.

The police handcuffed me and arrested me for copyright theft and money laundering,

They then asked me to show them every room in the house before leading me off down my driveway and then into the back of a police van. In the mean time I see more FACT officers enter my home to search it while I was in the back of the van. At 6am in winter it is mighty cold, I can tell you that!”

He was then taken to the local police station for questioning by police and an officer from FACT.

Feeling explained to Torrent freak

“The police started off asking me about ScT, how long it had been running, my part in it and my knowledge of what was going on. They also questioned me about other sites I had no part in but they thought I did."

"The FACT guy sat there most of the time just listening, and he would chirp in now and then with his limited knowledge of BitTorrent and P2P.”

“The police did not know a single thing about BitTorrent, P2P or anything else like that,” he explains. “I found it quiet disappointing that FACT had told the police that I was a major criminal to get them to arrest me and search my house.”

Convincing the police that file-sharing site operators are major criminals is a speciality of FACT – they have managed that in many cases already including TV-Links, FileSoup, SurfTheChannel and AradiTracker, to name a few.


“At the time of the arrest I thought it was the police that were running the whole thing, but I have later learned through the police telling me that it is FACT that are running the show and it is them who have my stuff up in Scotland,” said Feeling

Although its unclear how FACT managed to track down Feeling to his home address FACT has had great success in the past of tracking down owners of Uk based torrent trackers but have yet to gain a successful conviction .

Feeling was released on bail and mediately contacted djgrrr another trusted members of St to close the site down.

Now in 2011 Feeling is still on bail and awaiting his fate, but feels the recent failure of the Bitsoup, case also brought by FACT will stand in his favour.

Whatever the outcome Feeling as already decided, No more torrent sites But hopes this will help clear up the reasons for SCT's sudden closure

Full story at Torrentfreak