<h1 style><span style="font-size:14pt">BitTorrent: Escaping from Kazakhstan</span></h1><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><i><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">As The Pirate Bay stated, 2012 is the year of the storm. In Kazakhstan it’s absolutely true. Even more true than somewhere else. Due to anti-human copyright legislation it’s not “legal” to run torrent tracker in Kazakhstan anymore. Hundreds of famous trackers in our country, including but not limited to <a href="http://megatorrents.kz/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">megatorrents.kz</a>, <a href="http://p2p.kz/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">p2p.kz</a>, <a href="http://btr.name/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">btr.name</a>, are all shut down from now.</span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">We were running a local file-sharing community (<a href="http://p2p.ktv-sk.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://p2p.ktv-sk.com/</a>, mostly for our customers) but now we have to stop this service.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">We had made many interesting changes to xbtit code, e. g. featuring authentication through social networks, and it was undesirable for us to just shut it all down as many others did. That’s why we handed our web site's code and database over to the Anonymous group.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">The modified xbtit code perhaps is subject to be released as open source under the GNU GPL by the Anonymous group later.</span></p>
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<a href="http://tracker.name/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white">http</span></b></a><a href="http://tracker.name/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white">://</span></b></a><a href="http://tracker.name/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white">tracker</span></b></a><a href="http://tracker.name/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white">.</span></b></a><a href="http://tracker.name/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white">name</span></b></a><b><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Sadly we are not affiliated anymore. It doesn’t belong to us. You can get in touch with new web site owners via their e-mail:<b><a href="mailto:trackername@lavabit.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">trackername@lavabit.com</a></b>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><i><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">With pirate greetings from Kazakhstan,</span></i></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Marat Mulkubaev</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><i><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><br>
</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><i><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:12px;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><a href="http://pirateparty.kz/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://pirateparty.kz</a></span></i></p>
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