French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'

Bad news for French pirates*: major private torrent tracker YggTorrent was totalled earlier this month. The site, formerly among the biggest—if it wasn't the biggest—torrent tracking websites in France, was "emptied, then destroyed" by a hacker using the alias Gr0lum.All of the following quotes were originally in French, and have been machine-translated. In a manifesto posted online in the wake of Ygg's seeming destruction, Gr0lum accused Ygg's owners of "DDoS attacks against competing trackers...