What.cd Music Torrent Tracker Goes Offline After Police Raids

Private music torrent tracker What.cd has gone offline a few hours ago, after what were reported to be police raids of servers in France.

A message posted on the tracker indicates that the website shut down, although there is no confirmation that a police raid was indeed at fault for the site’s shutdown.

“Due to some recent events, What.cd is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish,” the announcement posted this morning reads.

The message seems to suggest that the shutdown could be permanent, but also gives assurances that all data was destroyed before the police managed to seize the servers.

No arrests

Citing French media, TorrentFreak reports that French authorities raided a total of 12 servers that were hosted at OVH, and anoth...