Largest BitTorrent Porn Websites Closed Down

A couple of the Internet’s largest porn BitTorrent sites have announced that they permanently shut down. Empornium and PureTNA, having over 2.5 million members between them, when closed will leave a significant number of porn fans empty handed.

It started a few days ago, when the sites’ members discovered that the largest BitTorrent adult trackers PureTNA and Empornium have been routing to 127.0.0.1. Of course, the members of both services have been worried, because those 2 giants connected by the same management boasted a huge number of users.

For example, PureTNA had more than 1,330,000 members, and its fellow Empornium had a close number. Recently PureTNA’s database was almost 67 thousand torrents servicing around 630 thousand peers. Meanwhile, Empornium listed over 82 thousand torrents and 660 thousand peers. That is a huge amount of porn, just how their members liked it.

However, the sites’ users face the sad reality now, with the management of both sites confirming that they went permanently offline. The demands for elaboration have been declined, but the management of both trackers said briefly: “Such is BitTorrent life.”

The event was quite unexpected by the community, because both BitTorrent trackers had continued to grow, in terms of both torrents and membership. The rumours are that because of the lack of investment in code development, PureTNA and Empornium have become vulnerable to virus attacks, which led to one or both of the trackers being hacked a few days ago. Instead of pumping money into the services to prevent the attacks happening again, trackers’ owners chose to wipe hard drives in order to protect user privacy. Or, at least, so the story goes.

Another rumour (and a sounder one) is that the services buckled under legal pressure. A few weeks ago many porn websites and studios have issued legal orders to the sites. Curiously enough, PureTNA is still listed by Google, while a search for Empornium brings up a complete blank, creating an impression that the site doesn’t exist.

Regardless of the reason, whether it is hackings, legal pressure, or both, the BitTorrent trackers will not come back, which certainly marks the end of an era for BitTorrent porn consumers. In the end the sites’ owners could simply lose interest in developing further.