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Flamewars between groups and even individuals in the scene is nothing new, its an almost a daily occurrence and something you have to get used to if you want to be part of the underground. Usually these NFO’s just contain a few hateful words, some “proof” to back there claims along with a few lines “we are 1337″ and can sometimes be quite an amusing read. This evening though the controversial group CANALSTREET have left the scene for good after the IP address of one there affiliate sites was included in an NFO during one of these flamewars. Other groups effected include RUSTLERS, CAMERA, HYdRO, ReCode, FuZe, PROP3R and CRiMSON it is unknown whether these group’s will leave as well. The persons or group involved posting the IP addresses is not known but to me it looks like the work of one or 2 individuals.

Most of you wont care that CANALSTREET have left as most of there releases were CAM’s of low quality and as is now confirmed stole there releases from torrent groups such as 2Bros (on another note don’t you find it funny that the scene whines and bitches about P2P users getting scene releases when scene groups themselves steal from P2P!). This “stealing” of P2P releases is the main reason the flamewars started and the heated releasing of NFO’s between the two sides led to aforementioned incident. Now i think that no matter how much you dislike a group you never post information that could compromise there safety and lead to them, affiliate sites and other groups being arrested. Even if there releases were bad, people still used them and used them for free. It seems that these people wanted CANALSTREET out of the scene so badly that they felt they would post the name of the affill site along with admins, other groups who use that site and the all important IP addresses, even stating there ONLiNE and which continent there in.

I’m pretty certain that this site is now offline and will most likley stay offline permanently if the admins have any sense and wish to stay out jail. It must really suck for the admins having to close down their site just because they affilliated with a group. Exposing personal information is not a new thing to the scene, exposing of IRC nicks and other identifiable info has been done in the past but as far as i know this is the first time the IP of a site has been publicly published. There really should a by a scene rule against publishing this sort of info as it’s a huge risk to everyone including other affiliate sites connected with the compromised groups and that could mean no more releases for us! I think it’s just a sad state of affairs when people resort to exposing information that could lead to people being arrested over such trivial things such as “stealing” a source. Here are some of the NFO’s of the incident if your interested: NFO1, NFO2, NFO3, NFO4.

NOTE: DO NOT POST THE NFO’s WITH ANY IDENTIFIABLE INFO.