t411 or Torrent411 was a semi-private

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website founded in 2008.« Torrent411 : le clone de QuebecTorrent maintenant ouvert »
on Adviso.ca According to Alexa Internet, it was the 86th most visited website in

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in December 2014, and the first in its category. On the 27th of June 2017, t411 was shut down in a joint operation by French and Swedish police.

History

In 2006 a BitTorrent tracker named QuebecTorrent (in reference to

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) was created. In July 2008, QuebecTorrent was shut down by the Canadian authorities. Shortly after being shut down a clone of the original website was created and named Torrent411. Torrent411 was developed by part of the team that created QuebecTorrent and they maintain the website, torrents, and members. The website's slogan is "Les pages jaunes du torrent", or "The

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of the Torrent" in English; the 411 in Torrent411 refers to the "

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" telephone directory information number in

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. In August 2011 Torrent411 moved to the new domain name t411.me to avoid possible censure by VeriSign, the US company that manages the .com top-level domain. In June 2013, T411 had surpassed 5 million members, According to statistics from t411.me confirming its position as the first francophone tracker. On October 29, 2014, the site suffered a massive

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. On February 20, 2015, t411.me becomes t411.io in response to a threat of blocking the domain name. On April 2, 2015, a French court ordered the French

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providers to block t411.me, following a complaint from the SCPP. On June 27, 2017, t411 was shut down in a joint operation by French and Swedish police.

References

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