Ukrainian authorities have taken down Demonoid.com, a of the world's largest swell file-sharing sites.
Investigators from the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs raided the information centre that was hosting the website's servers.
Torrents enable users to download music, video and other internet calm by downloading tiny pieces of files from others' computers at the same time.
The shutdown is the ultimate headlines in a promotion against file-sharing sites.
It follows the US's closure of Megaupload, and a few European ISPs (internet service providers) being systematic to inhibit access to The Pirate Bay.
Demonoid was listed to one side both of these sites in The Notorious Markets List - a report drawn up by the US supervision at the finish of final year highlighting services that "merit serve scrutiny for probable egghead skill rights infringements".
It remarkable that Demonoid "recently ranked amid the tip 600 websites in universal traffic and the tip 300 in US traffic".
Users initial became wakeful of the action on 26 July, when attempts to access Demonoid's site yielded a "server busy" message.
The Torrentfreak headlines site reported that Ukraine's Division of Economic Crimes acted after reception a solicit from the general military organization Interpol.
It mentioned the local authorities then contacted Demonoid's ISP, Colocall, that motionless to lift its service, and authorised investigators to duplicate information off its servers.
"Demonoid is well known for its links to comparatively singular calm that might be harder to advance by now," Torrentfreak's editor Ernesto Van Der Sar told the BBC.
"However, it's not going to stop the most of people from pity files as the most renouned things are existing even though hundreds of other BitTorrent sites."
The action follows the detain of a of Demonoid's administrators in Mexico final October. But notwithstanding the setbacks Mr Van Der Sar referred to it was as well shortly to entrust the site to history.
"In 2006 The Pirate Bay came back online 3 days after it was raided, and in the years that followed it grew out to turn the largest BitTorrent site," he said.
The BPI, that represents the UK song industry, and the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) - that have both campaigned against online
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