'eztv' shuts down after hostile takeover

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13 points·rplnt··4 comments

The .se domain was linked to the mailbox of EZTV founder NovaKing, which allowed them to access the domain registrar account and various other services for which they quickly reset all passwords

-- So thats why i use a gmail address for public services. I wouldnt know which to pick involving torrents. But i wouldnt use the domain mail.

They also tookover the .ch domain because of ownership of the .se domain and misleading the registrar.

I see it the other way. I wouldn't use gmail for anything important. You have no control over it, the account could be banned at any time without any warning. So for me having your own domain for email seems to make more sense. Even if you host it with Google.

You can setup a backup emailaddress just in case, some guys were hacked because they hosted it themselves.

But if you only use it for your own porposes, i don't see why you'd get banned... Nothing harmfull happens with that email.

eztv the site or the group? the site is just a front. It also ran zoink.it as torrent-file host, but files are spread on other hosts, as well. Hardly anyone relies on the site anyway. Not to mention, I suspect I once a got a virus from a shady advert on an affiliated tracker/torrent-host.

Now I wonder, is this the industry turning prevention up a notch since Netflix et al proved a viable modle, or an attempt to abuse the userbase with ads and drive-by downloads?

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