Popular bittorrent tracker and social network Z-Cult FM has issued a letter to its members announcing their intent to close down. ”Z-Cult FM will be slowly closed down and the server put offline resulting in the death of Z-Cult FM as we know it,” said webmaster Serj in the statement.
The site has existed since 2004, but has seen a marked decrease in traffic and a contentious relationship with fans, creators and publishers since late 2007, when Marvel’s and DC’s books were removed from the site under threat of lawsuit. Serj addressed this in his statement with a few snarky remarks about these and other critics of the site.
The question of whether the domain name would return eventually as a message board or social networking community remains unanswered, with the statement saying only that “The future for Z-Cult FM is currently a sad quiet death and a think about it’s [sic] future.”
A full transcript of the statement can be read here.
