What happened to the Animetake - explanation...

Situation is still unclear and most of what we know are assumptions, but from what it looks like right now, it's unlikely that we will ever get any more information. Also we can be sure that Animetake will not come back any time soon. Owner of the site will not participate in optional restoration. He also will not share animetake.com database even if it still exists. And... well I am not surprised... what happened is SHOCKING!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
And here is what I have learned:

We all know that Animetake had some issues lately. Site was down a lot, attacked by hackers almost frequently -  together with horriblesubs.com and few other sites. As an explanation, they said that those massive attacks come from Japanese government and started after adoption of the new copyrighting law in Japan. Supposedly Japanese government asked the biggest anime-related website owners (Animetake, Nyaa and such) to delete files copyrighted in not only their country, but also in Japan (which basically means all of them). That was of course 'now way!' option and site owners just laughed it off and when attacks started, they just increased anti-DDOS protection and decided to wait patiently until they stop. For users it was sometimes difficult to get their favourite stuff, but not too much to be honest. Downtime of animetake.com was about ~5%. It's nothing. Nyaa even less. Personally I happened to see the animetake.com down only twice, and believe me, I was using it a lot!

Oke. At this point we were rather calm. Situation under control. Everything all right. Down from time to time, not a big deal. And then suddenly *bam!*. Animetake dead.
Only explanation available (to this day) came from Dao - most active animetake.com moderator and uploader. On his blog (link below) he said that probably Japanese government somehow (probably in some illegal way, but...) acquired personal details of the Animetake owner, together with his current home address and sued him in the court. Nasty accident...

Right after receiving the official letter, Animetake owner shut the site down and decided to close this business forever. We do not know if he won or lost in the court and we will probably never learn what exactly happened, but Animetake will not be revived ;<

In my honest opinion it really is unjust. We, in the Europe, have no access to 90% of Japanese animated series other than piracy, and forbidding us to download it is like cutting the ropes with an outside of Japan world. I am sure that there are better ways to feed the wolf and save the sheep. Peace!
 
Dao's blog

PS. Day after Animetake shut down, two almost identical websites emerged like Hydra's heads from endless and immortal body of fandom. We will never surrender and we will fight for our rights!