I read an rather obvious article over at the TorrentFreak blog that was entitled “Piracy Investigators Infiltrate Private Torrent Sites” which confirmed that piracy investigators have been getting access to private torrent sites by either joining them when they were still open for registration or being invited from a man in the inside. It was always pretty obvious to me that private could not really mean private if the site owners did not know each of the users personally. This system was bound to fail right from the beginning and the article on TorrentFreak only confirms this.